Mustapha, we missed you, but you should have given us the assignment before you left.
Sept 29, 1910
The Weather
Light to moderate winds, fine and moderately warm to-day and on Friday.
Woodbine Results
In the first race, 3 year olds, purse $500 1 1/16 miles - the winner - Comptor
Girl Was Killed in an Elevator
Doors Fitted Flush With Door and There was No Guard Around them
AND SHE WALKED ACROSS
Hoist Came Up and Crushed Ellen Jordon Against Wall in Candy Works
Miss Ellen Jordon was crushed between an elevator and a brick wall at Neilsons candy factory in Gladstone avenue this morning. She was removed to Grace Hospital where she died an hour later.
Woman brought Four Other Ones to Toronto Prison
And Proceedings are to Be Taken to Liberate One of Them on Ground That a Woman Cannot Be a Provincial Bailiff
Can a woman be a Provincial bailiff?
Mrs. T.J. Johnston brought four women prisoners from North Bay to the Mercer Reformatory in Toronto, and the question of her appointment as a Provincial bailiff is raised indirectly in a habeas corpus application for the release of Alice O'Brien, one of the four.
Papers have been filed at Osgoode Hall, and the motion for her release will be made to-morrow.
Emma Shea, who was sentenced at the same time as the O'Brien woman, was released yesterday under habeas corpus proceedings.
The superintendent of the Mercer Reformatory is a woman, but she is in office by virtue of the Mercer Reformatory statute.
Alice O'Brien's counsel says that a woman bailiff is something new to him and that common law does not recognize women in public offices.
When Emma Shea and Alice O'Brien were transferred from North Bay Jail to the Mercer Reformatory, the transfer was attested by the sheriff.
Alice O'Brien's lawyer asks the question: Are Ontario prisoners transferred legally when transferred this way?
I'm just giving you an exercise. Discuss.
