People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — Salve for a Crippled Shoulder. [ARTICLE]

Salve for a Crippled Shoulder.

DUBUQUE, Ia., March 31.—Irene Worrell Holton, of Chicago, has been awarded $5,000 for injuries to he shoulder sustained September 10, 1887, when a member of Wilbur’s dramatic company, by falling down a stairway behind the scenes in Duncan & Coates’ opera house. The jury took 103 ballots. Defendants will appeal. The Plaintiff is the wife of D. S. Holton, an actor, and one of the once famous three Worrell sisters, Mrs. George Knight being another. If the verdict stands she will retire from the stage.