Margaret Ann Mick was a wife and mother of four children until her husband died in the late 1890s. To support the family she went to work. Margaret first worked at the Orillia Asylum, then went on to work at the Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women in Toronto as a matron. When the Toronto Municipal Jail Farm for Women opened in Concord in 1915 she applied, and about 1916 she moved to the staff residences there, and continued her career as a matron at the Farm. Her children were now grown and on their own. On Sunday 24 May 1925 Margaret was the sole matron working the night shift. Connected to the main building at the Farm by a short corridor was the isolation unit of four cells, a unit for disruptive inmates. On this night there were four female inmates filling the unit. Three of the females had conceived an escape plan earlier in the day. About 2215 hours one of the inmates crawled out the hatch in her cell door, and with a metal spoon broke the wood away from around another cell door lock. The corridor lights were extinguished, and the third inmate, still in her cell started yelling about a ficticious water leak in her cell. Mick responded, and when she unlocked the third cell door, the female inside rushed the door while the two freed females who were lurking in the shadows now behind Mick threw a sheet over her, and the three inmates overpowered her. Micks arms was tied spread-eagle to water pipes in a plumbing closet that opened into the corridor, her feet were bound together, and before the three fled, they put a pillow under her head. The keys were taken and the three escaped to a short stretch of freedom out a back door and across the fields towards Toronto. Mick was found dead by coworkers when the morning shift arrived for work about 0615 hours. It was determined that Mick died about 0015 hours Monday 25 May 1925. The first female escapee was turned in to police on Monday night in Toronto. The other two escapees were arrested on the main street in Oshawa Tuesday afternoon. There were five others from Toronto arrested and charged with aiding and abetting the three inmates. The trial for the three was very short in the middle of October 1925. The three were charged with murder, but due to circumstances brought up by the defence lawyer, the three girls quickly plead guilty to manslaughter on the second day, and were immediately sentenced to five years each in Kingston Penitentiary. The age and health of Margaret were factors, Margaret was 63 years old. Two of the female inmates were 16 years old, and the third was 21 years old. Margaret was well liked by the other staff, and well respected by the inmates she dealt with. Margaret was buried in the Waterdown Union Cemetery.