Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-26
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Actress Asks. ~, 90 Dam ages.
Charging TrSatmsnts Ruined
Her Face and Profile
NURSE IS INJURED BY AUTO

Atlsifle City, Aprfi, cG. Miss May
Edwards. one of the beauties Of the
zicsfeld Follies in- 1917. has filed suit
In the New Jersey Supreme Court for
$25, ,OC0 dsmases ssainst Charles W.
Holden. proprietor OF, beauty shop
in ! this city. charsins that treat
ments By Holden have rnined tue beauty
of her face and profile. thereby destroy
ing her occupation as nm artists model
and actress. y y Il.
In the complaint. filed by IIarcourt
z Steelman. her attorneys. the young
woman claims that Holden guaranteed
to remove small line or wrinkle from
her face beneath the eye" and she sub
nitted to an operation In September,
1870! at his hands. s.%
The bill charges thst the defendant
did not use due and proper care or
skill IN performing said toperation OH
the pfa.ntiff In that he did ncgligcntly
and carclcssly and unskillfully conduct
said operation and that plaintiffs face
Immediately and aftcrward and ever
since has been swollen. infamed and
discOlered and she has suffered intense
physical pain and mental anguish.
Efforts arc being made to have the
case heard before Judge Dongcs at the
term of Supreme Court at Mays Land
ing. next month
Holden came into the limelight about
Q year ago when he was arrested by
Philadelphia customs inspectors for nj
legged completely in n Big rum running
plot along with A. q. Grassland. Flor.
Ida millionaire. He is out under $40 ,OOO
bail pending disposition of that case.
Struck by an automobile while re.
turning to her home from health
meeting in the, Massachusetts, Avenue
School building last night. Miss Helen
Morton II in d serious condition at thC
Atlantic City Hospital. She is a pro-
fcssional nurse attached to the School
Board. She sustained broken wrist.
a deep cut in the head and lacerations
Of the face and probably internal in.
iuries. John Walton. driver of the
machine. is out ,,ntler $500 bail to
await the result of her injuries.
Arrested on two charges of extortion
and one of collecting unlawful feea.
Emerson Burdick. Justice of the Peace
at Hammonton. waived a hearing before
Justice George Straus yesterday and
was held under $500 bail for the
Grand Jury. Burtlick denies all the
charges and declares that the fees coll
lccted were for work done in his private
capacity md hYd nothing whatever to
do With his Office as Justice Of the
Peace.
Headed BY their uniformed patrol and
band. nearly two hundred members OF
the local Forest Tall Cetlars of Lebanon
and their ladies left for the annual con
vcntion of the order in Newark in
special cars attached to the o O'Clock
train this morning. ....
Word was received here today Of the
death of Mrs. Mary Collins .Ashinead.
widow of q. former county engineer am,
member of the Board of Chosen Free
holders, last night. while On a visit ia
her son. Edward. in East Orange. where
he il engaged in the practice OF law.
Mrs. Collins was a member of n
family which has lived IN. Atlantic
County and taken an active part IN Is
affairs for more than century. He,
Ga iIOr fOrmer ShCrif Isaac rnlI;,o a;