Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-01-02

New York sun, Dec, 18th.
Lillian Verona, young blonde person,
who says she would have been leading
lady of the Oppenheimer burlesaue Co.
Of Detroit at weekly salary of $50 but
for an unfortunate accident which
turned her yellow hair green, when she
was trying to turn it red, presented her
claim for 81, COO damages agar John
lsiehl, a druggist of Third avenue and
Thirtesnth street, before Justice Dele
hanty IN the City Court yesterday.
Having lost the Detroit engagement
because of her pea green hair. Miss
Verona is now doing stunts on the
vaudeville Stage with a tragic. looking
young man named burke. Miss Verona
told hfr troubles in stage wbisper
to sympathetic Jury, the foreman
OF which has red hair. She bought
what she thought we're henna leaves.
she said, because The exigenoiss
OF her profession demanded tina. Mt
certain stages Of the season, she
should change the color OF her hair.
Henpa leaves, she said would turn the
hair to beautiful auburn CD. or. What
she got from Kiehl che said, turned
her hair green, and she displayed lock
cut from her head which was as green
tho my y 900 bhuh dUp UNI BN9T saw from
the court house windows.
Miss Verona related in great detail
the trouble which had grown out of tnjs
change in her hair. / became the tail,
of the Rialto. and caused her to he
ridiouled by persons of no less import.
ance than theatrical agents. She was
turned down all along the line, she said.
and so great was the loss to her pooket.
bouk, to say nothing of the agony of
mind she suffered and a pain in the
eye due to the escape of little Of the
green dye, that she felt obliged to de-
mand damages from Kiehl for selling
her something that was not hepna
leaves at all. but cheap aniline dive
Mr.. kiehl commended that ne had sold
genuins henna leaves, but that Miss
Verona didn't know how to use them
and so turned her hair green instead of
red. He produced az an expert. MR.
Cornelius Angeles, who sells bais
colorings and colors hair herself, and
who said that henna leaves used an
clean heads would turn the hair rad
but used on unwashed heads would turn
it green.
oh, my, dyer hear thstPn nut Ia
Miss Verona, indignantly, "I'll lust
settle her when | get back ON abuttal',
Mrs; Angeles told how she had
turned her own hair green with hepna
leaves once, when she did the lob
hastily, and without cleaning her hair
and scalp perfectly, and she said thar
she mad known $50 women who had had
the same kind of an accident. The hair
ought to be washed at the very most not
more THAN 10 hours before the applica
tlon OF the henna leaves, she said. Or.
clarence Elebash, of lis East Nine
teentn street, testified that experiments
had shown what Mrs. ANGELES said to
be so
Miss Verona got in on "abuttal'' and
said:
Why, Judge, the idea of saying NV
head wasn't clean. l wash it eyery
sunday regular, yes, sir. re- lar every
Sunday. F."
1t developed that it was on a Thura.
day that Miss Verona Iut on the dyst
she bought from Kiehl.
MISS Nerona's lawyer made a very
dramatic appeal to the jury. He said
that mar was God given gilt and that
IN lhls particular case the abuse of ia
had caused sorrow and financial loss h,
. member OF most noble profession.
from respected member of that mo-
lesion she had been converted 10 al
lime museum freak and was entitled to-
!, substantial amount for the OUTRAGE
nat had been perpetratsd on her.
druggist ktehl's lawyer said that tina
evidence showed that the fault was WITH
MISS Verona's head and not with the
lenna leaves and that Miss Verona was
lot entitled to cent. Ii she didn't
Ike green hair she might have worn
Wig.
The jury, returned verdict for the
defendant druggist