“Playing At ‘Whiffle’ When Door Slammed,” Toronto Star. May 25, 1932. Page 9.
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Youth and Girl Locked In Osgoode Hall Vault
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Absorbed in mastering the art of a confiscated ‘whiffle board’ two youthful employees at Osgoode Hall were in the courts exhibits storage vault on Monday afternoon when Arthur Stubbard, clerk, of 192 Grange Ave., obeyed a playful impulse to slam the door shut. The tumblers in the combination clicked and Miss Eugenie Stead, 20, Wayland Ave., together with Norman Currie, 20, Roncesvalles Ave., was confined in the dim strong-room.
It was almost an hour before the trained fingers of J. M. West of the Taylor Safe Works twirled the dial and released two embarrassed young people. After he had slammed shut the door Stubbard tried frantically for 20 minutes or so to open the vault. Failing, he telephoned Jack Fisher, custodian of the fire department signal station.
Chief George Sinclair, Deputy Chief Duncan McLean and Platoon Chief Fox surveyed the situation. While several volunteer safe-crackers fumbled with the dial, Chief Sinclair placed a call to the Taylor Safe Works and brought over the nimble-fingered Mr. West.