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... ESCAPE OF A NOTORIOUS CONVICT FROM DARTMOOR PRISON. AA- . . . __1 I _ . ~ A _ _ A dlI The police of the metropolis have received information of OW thle escape of George Woodcock alias Mlassey, alias Matthew bill Williamson, alias George Johnson, alias ...

... by the Home Secretary, to answveri O atil h rat having infringed one of the conditions of her Ma ?? Of of license from Dartmoor Prison. - Jet'5arve This was the first case under the new act of lest ses authorising the liberation ef convicts as a rewacdof ...

... found that he i answered the' description of an escaped convict from Dartmoor Prison, and the authorities of that pri- son were communicated with. To-day, the chief warden of Dartmoor Prison ittended before the magistrates and identified the prisoner as a ...

... 44, a pensioner, was charged with the wilful murder of Benjamin Robinson. The prisoner belonged to the guard at the Dartmoor prison, but a number of prisoners having been removed on board the Runnymede at at Deptford for transport to Swan River, prisoner ...

... Witners tuiip' I up the prisoner, a and in the scuffle his hand was bitten. I g Morris Lyneham, chief warder ofi trt Dartmoor prison, J stated that the prisoner had been previouely confined to the l of refractory cell; and on remonstrating with him after ...

... continues to increase, as the barbarity of this atrocious murder, and the apparently culpable conduct of the authorities at Dartmoor Prison, in allowing so des- perate a character as the suspected murderer to be set at liberty, becomes daily more conspicuous ...

... WESTERN CIROUCTT-EXETER, JuzY 20. I John Smith pleaded Guilty to three indictments-one charging him with breaking out of Dartmoor Prison; another with a burglaly; and a third with stealing a horse -all on the sasme night. Sir. Justice Vighitminan, in passing ...

... having wounded his wife 6, with intent I to murder her, and sentenced to ten years' Of transportation. He was sent to Dartmoor prison, where he St remained nearly four years, conducting himself very pro- at perly. Mainly through the agency of his wife ...

... SURPASSED.-On Saturday information was received by the city and metropolitan police of the escape of a notorious convict from Dartmoor Prison, and whilst wearing his prison dress, breaking into a dwelling-house, undressing himself of his poison clothes, robbing ...

... Pali, hag learnt that the prisoner had been staying with Wheeler, titeticket-of.leave ?? xweeks that he had been out of Dartmoor prison. He frequently left Wheeler's house during that pe. riod for two or three days together, and the last time he left Whitfield ...

... , would soon have made an aperture. It will be in the recollection of our readers that Rock effected his escape from Dartmoor prison some months since, and his present fruitless attempt is another illustration of his desperate oha- ?? Sunday evening another ...