The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-04-15
SHOW GRE IN COURT
ROSE QUINN CLAIMS SHE HAS
SOME SALARY COMING.
Has Started An Action Against the
Management Of "The Top o. tn
World" Company; Had Contract
to Receive Twenty Dollars Per
Week; Claimed That the Bosses
Did Not Live Up to Agreement.
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
Winona, April g H.-Rose Quinn,
chorus girl, is making trouble aplenty
for the management Of '''rhe Top o
Tn World" company and legal action
started in La Crosse on Friday BY the
girl against the company for back pay
alleged to be due her, had its fol-
low up in Winona. Saturday when
Miss Quinn came here, sought out al
attorney and Sheriff Parr. in all effort
to secure her trunk. Z.
The girl, I. who is only nineteen
years old and who lives in New York
declares she holds a contract calling
for SO u week for chorus and dane
ing. work. Just before the show
reached. La Crosse, she says, she was
called upon to- do number of extra
stunts. She refused, and according
to her version, was fired" She had
mo- money, and although, she says, the
company is bound BY contract to give
her two weeks notice OF furnish her
fare to New York, they refused to
recognize her claim She secured All
attorney and started suit for $40, this
including back salary two weeks pay
and $2l in lieu OF ticket back to
New York. Auswrit of attachment
was served upon the show at La
Crosse and $l2o IN the box office re-
ceipts seized. The hearing will take
place within few days.
Statement of the Manager.
Manager H. A. Wickham and Ac-
tor Bailey made statement to The
Independent last evening relative to
the affair. They declare there is alb
solutely no truth in the statement and
representations OF the, girl. They say
she was not released from the COM
pany and was ordered to do only, what
the terms of the contract called for.
They say she assumed stubborn
attitude and refused point blank to do
her work. Reprimanded she quit and
brought suit against the company.
Wickham declares: the. girl is paid UP
in full and that be holds! "a receipt:
He says : the company has done its
duty by her and that they are not
bound to furnish money Wilh. aiiicI
she can purchase d ticket TO New
York. because She quit rather than
being released. j t.ss . *
j Told to Take Trunk. !.
So far as her trunk was, concerned,
he. declared it was packed with athe
rest of the show, girls. property at
La Crosse and when the constable there
demanded it, he Was told to take it.
This he refused ta do and it was
brought on TO Winona, In this city
when the girl. again asked for the
trunk, accompanied by an, attorney
and the. sheriff, She was told to take
it as the company had no use for il.
Both Mr.. Bailey and Mr.. Wickham.
men who stand high in. the profession
on their integrity and honor. declare
great injustice has been done the
company and that they arc put in
false light by press reports of the
affair. which have been given wide cir
culatiOn. .grs ~
The management declares they will
fight out the matter at La Crosse.
They have contracts. receipts and 9th
er papers they say, which will show
they are entirely in, the right.
.'Ihe girl mas absolutely 40 claim
against us and We intend through our
attorney at La Crosse to prove it to
the public said Mr.. Builey, who was
greatly wrought up over the affair