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MUTINY IN A DARTMOOR PRISON

... MUTINY IN DARTMOOR PRISON The Press Association says:—lt transpired on Saturday that on Monday last Priooetown Prison. Dartmoor, very serious situation waaaaved by tbe alert and prompt action of warder. A gang of convicts were engaged in the prison fields ...

Published: Monday 24 April 1899
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 297 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE TEWKESBURY REGISTER. DARTMOOR PRISON

... THE TEWKESBURY REGISTER. DARTMOOR PRISON. A contemporary relates the following :—We wise going leisurely up the road, when I saw a an In a dark coat standing on the bank with a gun in the hollow of his arm, looking at something beneath him in the field ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1869
Newspaper: Tewkesbury Register
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1195 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BREAKING INTO DARTMOOR PRISON

... BREAKING INTO DARTMOOR PRISON. Joseph Denny, a coloured man, was charged before the Tavistock magistrates yesterday with breaking into Dartmoor convict prison at midnight on Saturday last for an unlawful purpose, with the intentiou firing the building ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1890
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DEATH IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... DEATH IN DARTMOOR PRISON. inquiry was held at Dartmoor Prison last evening by Mr, J. D. Prickman, county coroner, respecting the death of Walter Pack wood, aged years.—Capt. M. F. Synge, deputy-governor, produced records shewing that Paokwood was convicted ...

Published: Friday 13 September 1895
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 227 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

A DARTMOOR PRISON POET

... A DARTMOOR PRISON POET. Dartmoor Prison is scarcely the place in which one would expect the poetic fancy to run riot. One of the convicts confined there has, however, says the Western Morning News, been making a bid for the reversion of the Poet Laureate's ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1897
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

INQUEST AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... INQUEST AT DARTMOOR PRISON Mr. Prickman, County Coroner, held an in- quest at Dartmoor Prison yesterday on the body of a convict named James Biggs, who died on Saturday last, aged 38 years. The deceased came to Dartmoor from Exeter on the 21st June, 1897 ...

Published: Wednesday 13 October 1897
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OUTBREAK OF CONVICTS IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... OUTBREAK OF CONVICTS IN DARTMOOR PRISON. On the lth instani- s. serious mutiny occurred among convicts in Dartmoor Prison, at Prince- town, Devon. A principal warder named Westiake, on visiting the gang in the quarry, was attached by one of the prisoneis ...

Published: Friday 19 November 1880
Newspaper: Monmouthshire Merlin
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 138 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

TO ABOLISH DARTMOOR PRISON

... TO ABOLISH DARTMOOR PRISON. The policy prisous, which has been steadily kept in view sinoe the whole of th*-*e institution!* were placed under the H jum Office, i«, aays London correspondent, likt-ly t>) result the abolition very old and couvict esta ...

Published: Thursday 23 July 1891
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OUTRAGES IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... OUTRAGES DARTMOOR PRISON. The atrocious assaults committed convicts on the warders and other officers in Dartmoor Prison, which were recorded some time since in our columns, have been more than paralleled by those which have recently taken place, and ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1862
Newspaper: Dublin Evening Mail
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1257 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OUTRAGES IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... OUTRAGES IN DARTMOOR PRISON. The atrocious assaults committed by convicts on the wa-ders and other officers in Dartmoor Prison, which were recorded some time since our columns, have been more than paralleled tlwse which have recently taken place, and ...

Published: Friday 19 September 1862
Newspaper: Irish Times
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: | Words: 1308 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FATAL EXPLOSION AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... FATAL EXPLOSION AT DARTMOOR PRISON. A shocking explosion occurred during some blaslinsr operation* Dartmoor Prison yesterday. A hundred convicts bad been off to blast, under the superintendence Principal Varder Moore and Mr. Bod or, command. About eleven ...

ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON

... IXAITE FxROM DARTMOOR PRISON. A 't)N\VICT'S DARIING. -e Iwo warders front Dartmoor P'rison arrived at he . enrouth early vestorday mornin- in search of a sa ] tijuvict na III ed ?orgau, wvho cscaped' froni the prison ?? 9 o'oloek oli Sunday night. The ...