4 z vd on ; win _ KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1925. Girl Tells How Toronto Jail Matron Was Cruelly Done to c JAIL MATRON IS MURDERED IN THE WARD 'By Three Girl Inmates Who TIED 10 WATER PIPE And Choked to Death---Slayers All of Toronto---Fourth Girl Frightened Into Sleace. Toronto, May 26.--Enticed into a ward in the Toronto municipal jail farm for women by a ruse arranged by three escaping inmates, Mrs. Mar- garet Mick, aged 55 years, a night matron, was cruelly slain some time 'on Sunday night. She was attacked, tied to water pipes, and choked into silence and death. The three girl as- sallants, one aged 21 and two each 16 years old, stole her jail keys and escaped from the farm. The three giris--all of Toronto-- for whom warrants charging mur- der have been issued, are: Isabel Prouse, alias Ruby Smith, aged 21, . Bessie Carroll, aged 16. ** Jeanette McMinn, aged 16. Mrs. Mick was found dead at five minutes to seven o'clock Monday morning, when Mrs. Prince and Miss Chierry, day matrons, came on duty. The body was sprawled athwart the corridor, each arm outstretched to full length and tied securely to 'water pl The face and body were " eovered with a sheet, and when this 'was removed discoloration was quite marked. There was 8 wound on the ; The arms were bound to the the Dads of the ro. . Three of the four cells in the ward were empty, with doors wide open, and doors leading to the outside also were open. In the fourth cell was « Gladys Palmer, terrified, her head buried in the bed clothes, who sob- bingly told of the terrible events of the night before, which she had overheard, and how she had been frightened into silence, and did not give an alarm. Mrs. Mick was alive when the three assailants left her, the Palmer said, and she heard her moan- ing. Just before the assailants left she shé heard them say to Mrs. Sela urging her to keep quiet, and five up her keys: "You have a daughter. Think of her." To which Mrs. Mick replied feebly: "I would do adything for her." 'While the Palmer girl could not see what went on in the corridor, this dramatic conversation is _thought to have taken place when "the girls were tying Mrs. Mick to the water pipes. Dramatic Conversation. The ward in which the tragedy oc- curred ' cop four cells, two on each side of the corridor, and ad- Joins the main building. The four famates were being given special medical treatment, and were there- fore somewhat isolated from the other fumates. 8 o'clock Sunday night, ae cording to Gladys Palmer, the Me- called out: "I am going my getaway tonight." with you," said the Carroll E2222 2X2 AXA XX XJ CHILD IS STRANGLED WHILE LEADING PONY Saskatoon, Sask., May 26. Annie Findley, five-year-old daughter of a Kerrobert farm- er, died of strangulation yester- day when she became entang- led in a rope with which she was leading a pony, and was dragged a considerable dis- tance. PPP PPPS PP b ee PLE P POPPE P PO COP 02 2900000000 & story that a water tap was leak- ing and flooding the cell. The two other girls apparently had hidden ip their cells. . The Attack. When the door was opened the Carroll girl rushed out, wnile at the same time Isabel Prouse and Jemny McKinn attacked the matron from behind, the authorities learned from Gladys Palmer's story. Apparently a sheet was thrown over the matron's head, and she was forced down to the water pipes which run along the corridor. Medical evidence will show that the matron was choked into sil- ence by hands at her throat, and was suffocated so much by this at- tack that a hemorrhage followed. The Palmer girl places the time of the attack between 10.30 and mid- night on Sunday. The wound found on the woman's face apparently was inflicted by the same instrument which was used in prying off the bolt of the cell door. rWhen the matron was tied to the water pipes, the keys: Were taken from a belt around her Waist, and the three girls escaped after opening three doors which led them to the lawn. The Palmer girl was so frightened for her own safety, she told the au- thorities, that she did not call out. After the girls had gome, she said, she heard low moans from the ma- tron, and afterward there was sil- ence. Horribly frightened, Gladys Palmer buried herself in the bed clothes and fell asleep. |. Jeanette McMinn has been cap- .jtured and is held on a charge of murder, ---- Girl Remanded a Week. " Toronto, May 36.--Jeanette Mec- Minn, was remanded to-day for one week when she appeared in the wo- men's court to answer to a charge of murder of Mrs. Margaret Mick. No evidence was heard. The police are looking for Isabel Prouse, alias Ruby 8mith, and Bes- sie Carroll, both of whom face simi- lar charges. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAN EXPORT POWER The Welland Ship Canal Is Expected to Be Completed in 1929, Toronto, May - 26.--Regulations governing the export of power are within the juriediction of the federal government, in the opinion of the law officers of the Crown, Premier King stated in the Commons yester- day afternoon. He was answering a number of questions by T. L. Church, of North Toronto, concerning the general Question of export power, and of Carillon power in particular. Asked by Sir Henry Drayton if the opinion of the officers of the Depart- ment of Justice would be tabled, Hon. Ernest Lapointe, minister of justice, sald that such communica- tions had always been treated as con- fidential. Completion of the Welland ship canal is expected during the year 1929, it was stated in answer to a question from Andrew Knox, M.P. for Prince Albert. A review was given of the project showing that surveys were made in 1908, econ- struction was commenced in 19183, .| $51,203,488 had been spent at March 81, 1925, approximately $100,000, 000 is the estimated total cost, and if appropriations are available year- ly, to full capacity of contractors, and no set-backs occur, it is expect- ed that the project will be completed during 1929. ---------- SPCC 0000000 9006044008000 THE COMMONS IN SESSION ON THE HOLIDAY Home Bank And Freight Rate "sin Cay INCOME TAX CHANGES) Exempting Assets of a Tax- payer Is Being Considered pal Ottawa, May 26.--In the Com- mons yesterday afternoon Hon. J. A. Robb, acting minister of finance, replied that he hoped to bring down the legislation dealing with the Home Bank this week, while Hon. George P. Graham, minister of rail- ways and (canals, stated that legisla- tion in connection with the freight rate question would in all proba. bility be brought down by next week at the latest. E. J. Garland (Progressive, Bow River) complained that legislation respecting rural bredits and the re- valuation of soldiers' lands had not yet been introduced. Income Tax Amendments. The Government has under con- sideration amendments to the In- come Tax Act, which would exempt the assets of a taxpayer so as to af- ford greater security to the purchas- er or lender in good (faith, it was stated by Hon. P, J. A. Cardin, act- ing minister of customs, in answer to a question. The same answer was given to a question as to the possibility of pro- viding greater security for comsorts married under the separation of pro perty clause, who were not now on an equal footing under thé Quebec provincial laws, with conagrts mar- ried under the community, of prop erty laws. Mr. Cardin said that the policy of the Government would be announc- ed in due course. A bill to amend the Dairy Produce Act and to give power to the De- partment of Agriculture to refuse to grade butter for export at its dis- cretion was given third reading and passed final stages. ° The Canadian Government has re- funded during the last year $11, 719 as drawbacks on duty paid on New Zealand cheepe brought inte Canada to be used in the manufac- ture of kraft cheese which after- wards was exported to Europe. This was stated in the House of Com- mons yesterday in answer to a ques- tion. SP -- Dr. Beland's The detention and imprisonment of Hon. Dr. H. 8. Beland, present minister of health and soldiers' civil re-establishment, by the German au- thorities in Belgium at the begin- ning of the war in 1914, was re called in the House. ; H. A. Stewart, Conservative mem- ber for Leeds, moved that the Gor- fH i i I] ! i if { 3 ; | i LOOKING AROUND It wes surely a Blue Monday for the young man who sought a mar- riage license in Kingston and could not get ome, because of the statu- tory holiday. Ontario marriage li- censes and liquor for medicine are two things that cannot be supplied on holidays. You can get almost everything else, from a loaf of bread to a cigar. . i < Kingston's beer drinkers are won- dering what kind of folks live up in Port Arthur that a few drinks of the new 4.4 beer will cause them to be- come intoxicated. No one down here can get anywhere near a state of hi- larity on the new drink. Learning is surely spreading through South Frontenac. It is an- nounced that the largest number of pupils on record will tackle the high school entrance examinations the end of June. Frontenac has pro- duced some able men in all walks of life, and there may be some real genius in the batch of emtrance pu- pils who are getting ready to take the departmental June tests. Report has it that beer permits are to be given to the Frontenac, the Golf and the Kingston Conserva- tive clubs. It will be interesting to know if some other clubs about here will get licenses or be turned down. "By all means give the Salvation Army another tag day in order to raise funds to carry op their good work. The Army taggers were given a hard touch last Saturday owing to the wintry weather and rain. They are entitled to a better day. -- If you have mo prayer you can of- fer, the one repeated to the famous T. P. O'Connor by Sir Gilbert Par- ker, who told of if in George's 'eatbiedral on Sunday + should satisfy anyone. It is a petition that everyone might well learn. ------ Fewer thefts of flowlifs have beet reported this "spring, which is a Pleasing condition. Usually shock- ing thefts of spring flowers : from gardens have been reported, and vandals have also despoiled many front lawn flower beds. Perhaps the horticultural society is to be complimented for instilling better manners into those who like to des- poil. The tulips have had a fine month. Cold does not injure them and they have appeared in all their glory. S---- Justice Mowat is right when he says that there are a lot of rural magistrates in this country who are not versed in the law and make "slap-dash" convictions at times. There were times when even city magistrates made some rather strange convictions, and appeal afte? appeal succeeded before = county judges. Kingston is lucky in having as its police magistrate an experi- enced lawyer whose decidfons are ne- ver questioned because they are al- ways based on the weight of evi- ouse of Commons takes a rap at the Royal Military College when- lice on a charge of murder arising out of the death of Mrs. Margaret A. Mick, matron at the municipal jail farm for women, as a result of in. Juries she received when assaulted by the girls and their companion, Jeanette McMinn, after which they made their escape from the institu- tion, were arrested by the Oshawa authorities to-day. Oshawa, May 26.---The three girls, who made a sensational get- away from the Toronto municipal night after cruelly slaying Mrs. Mar. garet Mick, aged fifty-five years, a night 'matron, were walking open- ly about the streets in Oshawa .on Monday and were seen by the Osh- awa police who, however, did not know who they were at the time through not having a detailed de- scription of the girls and their clothes, Jeanette McMinn, aged sixteen years, was arrested in Toronto, Monday night where she returned with a number of young people aftér track of her com- panions, 0 apparently wished to elude her. They left the car on a pretence and never returned, and a search by her companions failed to find them. Isabel Prouse and Bessie Carroll then attended the Kingston and Oshawa ball game and were en- thuslastic rooters from the grand. stand. Jt was thought that they might have returned to Kingston with the bal , be 'Wits somewhat scouted... Inspector Morrison in enquiring into the story that they were given passes by the members of the King- ston team. : Shortly before 2 o'clock on Tues- day afternoon, Chief of Police Rob- Jail farm for women, late Sunday! Report That Missing Girl Murderers Attended Kingston-Oshawa Ball Game Isabel Prouse And Bessie Carroll Arrested in Oshawa--At First Thought They Hod Come to Kingston. Oshawa, May 26.--Isabel Prouse | and Bessie Carroll sought by the po- | inson received a telephone message from the chief of police at Oshawa, stating that it was believed that two of the girls wanted in the case, had attended the Kingston-Oshawa baseball game, and that following the game they had gone on to King- ston, in a bus that had conveyed tho Kingston ball team home. It was learned here that the mem- bers of the Kingston ball team did not return from Oshawa in a bus. The bus suffered a breakdown on its trip togOshaw. and: the players came home © train. (3 toothed that one of the girls was wearing a fawn coat with a dark hat pulled over her eyes, and that the other girl was attired in a dark coat with a dark hat with a light brim, and wore a pink dress. DENIAL BY KINGSTON PLAYERS. The Whig, upon receipt of the above Oshawa despatch, got in touch with members of the Kingston ball team to ascertain whether there was anything to the report or not. Sev- eral of the players were questioned, and it was found that none of them had seen or heard of any such two girls. The players left Kingston on Monday morning and went to Osh. awa by bus. On the way to Oshawa the bus broke down and the team was delayed but they all went to the ball park together and entered at the south gate of the park, the players being together all the time. None of themwsaw or heard of any girls either before they got to Oshawa or after théy were there. Owing to the fact that the bus had broken down on the way to Oshawa, IS ANUNDSEN RETURNNGBY RELIEF EXPEDITIONS | Are Being Discussed But Exper ay Li Sims te Party Is A Reh, London, May 26. -- Not since the world waited for months, in 1913, tor news from the {li-fated expedie tion of Robert F. Scott, the British explorer, to the South Pole, has the fate of any polar explorer excited so much speculation and interest in Britain as has that of the Amundsen Ellsworth expedition, now overdue at Spitsbergen. Throughout continental Europe also Amundsen's plight is the one absorbing topic of interest anxiety. Newspapers give the greats: est prominence to dispatches from Spitsbergen, as well as to specula® tion of what might have happened after the party hopped off for the North Pole. Ww So far, it is the general opinion here, however, that there is no ime mediate cause yet for anxiety, many. Scandinavian and British authoris ties express the opinion that it is probable the party succeeded fin reaching the Pole, descended there, and that Amudsen is now € favorable weather conditio p attempting to return. i betert y bus and were by themselves all the time. The bus did not return at the time the team left, MOTOR BOAT BEATS ORACK TRAINS TIME In Covering the Distance Be- tween Albany and New York Oity. New York, May 26.--Gar Wood, driving his motor speed boat Baby Gar IV today. beat the time of the Twentieth Cen- tury Limited between Albany and New York City. Wood's time between the railway bridge at Albany and the Columbia Yacht Club Manhattan, was giv- en out by the official observer in the boat as 2 hours,.58 min- utes. The Twentieth Century's official time between these two points was 3 hours and 10 minutes. A DRIVE TO REDUCE DANGER OF INFECTION S----" German Slogan Is "Don't Let Your Children Be Kissed BENEFIT FOR ALBANL S---- Royalty Attended Concert at Covent Garden. London, May 26.--Singular tri- bute was paid to Madame Albani, famous Canadian prima donna, who has been appointed Dame of the Or. der of the British Empire, when royalty, representatives of the Eng- lish society and prominent leaders in the world of arts, attended a benefit concert at Covent Garden yesterday for the aged singer, who is now living in retirement in London. Their Majesties the King and Queen were unable to be present, as originally intended, but the royal box was occupied by Princess Mary and many other royalties. liadame Albani, who occuped another box with her party, was presented with huge bouquets by Madame Melba, re- presenting music, and Mrs. Kendal representing drama. ------------------------ OTTAWA FLAGPOLES BARE. Protest on Empire Day Laxity Made in House. Ottawa, May 26.--The absence of flags from some of the Govern- ment buildings in the capital fn commemoration of Empire Day, brought forth a protest in the House yesterday afternood, from L. J. Ladner, Conservative, Vancouver South. : Mr. Ladner also referred to the "bare flagpoles" in front of the memorials to Queen Victoria and Sir John A. Macdonald. He thought that the fact that flags were not flying in these places was deplor- able, the world's for proach to the North Pole by at a feat accomplished by the Oxfo Expedition last year, today ox. pressed the conviction that Amund- sen reached the Pole, abandoned his planes and was now making his way back across the ice. ; Ellis sald: "Amundsen is safe. do not think he could ever seriously hoped to return by The @nly real landing places for flying boats are lanes in the ice, gaps in the huge ice Jeld as big as a street with water in the bottom, and those lanes are things. A shift in the wind woul close them up in half an hour, the airplanes would be crushed pulp by the ice. b-- Sure He Will Return. New York, May 26.--While tive plans for reliet expeditions' disctissed, experienced arctic exi ers are still confident in the ; of Captain Roald Amundsen and . five companions to return safely from their airplane flight to the. North Pole. The Amundsén party left King's Bay, Spitsbergen, Thursday afternoon. S------ To Hurry His Plans. London, May. 26.--Grettir son, the youmg British Colu who planned to race Amundsen the North Pole, announced & and | oa i