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DREADFUL OUTRAGES IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... DIEADFUL OUTRAGES IN DARTMOOR PRISON. A correspondent of a London cotemporary calls attention to the atrocious assaults committed by convicts on the warders and other officers in Dartmoor Prison. He ?? Thursday ,last, Warder Rose, who was in charge of ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 800 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE REVOLT AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... THE REVOLT DARTMOOR PRISON. The inquest upon the body of the convict Thomas lie van, who was shot by the warders at Dartmoor on Friday last, he was attempting to escape after inciting to rebellion, was resumed yesterday. A verdict of justifiable homicide ...

Published: Friday 19 November 1880
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TO ABOLISH DARTMOOR PRISON

... couvict establishment—that of Dart- moor, Perched on a plateau 1500 feet above the sea, and about 15 miles from iymwoath, Dartmoor Prison was lor the detention of French captives of war. The buildings were soon after util for convicts, and these gradually ...

Published: Thursday 23 July 1891
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 183 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FIGHT IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... FIGHT DARTMOOR PRISON. A CONVICT KILLED. A parti- IS convicts were esterday employed in connection wit'i the bui'dings at Dartmoor prison raising sand for building purposes. They were under the charge of Warders Kelly and Code and two civil gua ds. One ...

Published: Thursday 09 November 1882
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 182 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A GLANCE AT IHE DARTMOOR PRISON

... A GLANCE AT IHE DARTMOOR PRISON. Leaving Wirldicombe, we pass two bridges, and at length reach Prince Town. • most dreary village, 1400 feet above the sea level, and surrounded on all sides by the moor. At a short distance is the celebrated Dartmoor Priaon ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1862
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1525 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

THE ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON

... THE ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON. At Ashburton, Devonshire, on Friday, John Bray, the convict whose extraordinary escapades after getting away from Dartmoor Prison during a fog caused great excitement in the neighbourhood a few weeks since, was charged ...

Published: Monday 18 August 1884
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON

... ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON. a. Plymouth correspondent telegraphs: Two warders from Dartmoor Prison arrived Plymouth early this morning in search of convict named Morgan, who escaped from the prison about nine o'clock last night. The man severed the bars ...

Published: Monday 03 January 1898
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 480 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON

... ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON. A convict Dartmoor Prison was yesterday morning discovered attempting to escape by nigging his way through the thick wall of the prison. He must have been engaged the work for some weeks,and displayed considerable ...

Published: Wednesday 20 December 1876
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE OAlTDitRi ) CONVICT . —The . convict Goodwill , • who escaped iiom Dartmoor prison on Christinas Eve ,

... THE OAlTDitRi ) CONVICT . —The . convict Goodwill , • who escaped iiom Dartmoor prison on Christinas Eve , and wlio since his recapture baa been aerioualy ill , was yesterday reported to be in a little niore favourable condition . . IMPBIBOIIMEST 1 ( ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1897
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

YESTEMUY a new railway .. was .. oponod from Princetown ) near where Dartmoor Prison is situated , to Horrabridge

... YESTEMUY a new railway .. was .. oponod from Princetown ) near where Dartmoor Prison is situated , to Horrabridge , on the Great 'Western Railway . It in nine . miles long , and opens an important district around Princetown and DoWBland . .- ' • • • A ...

Published: Thursday 16 August 1883
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 116 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Arthur will be employed tailor at Dartmoor Prison. The Czarewitch is expected to ar rive in Berlin this morning ..

... Arthur will be employed tailor at Dartmoor Prison. The Czarewitch is expected to ar rive in Berlin this morning from Paris. The coinage at the Paris Mint fifty millions of gold—forty millions in twenty-franc pieces, and ten in ten-franc pieces—commences ...

Published: Monday 30 November 1874
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AN _ESCAPED _COKVlcr . —Late on _Thursday night George Ball , who _escaped with two _others from Dartmoor Prison on

... AN _ESCAPED _COKVlcr . —Late on _Thursday night George Ball , who _escaped with two _others from Dartmoor Prison on the 1 st April 1 SSO , was _captured at Woolwich . At the time of his _escape he had _Ecn-ed between two and _three years of a _sentence ...

Published: Monday 14 December 1863
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 826 | Page: 7 | Tags: none