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OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT OF CONVICTS IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT OF CONVICTS IN DARTMOOR PRISON. Very serious disturbances have for some weeks past, we understand, taken place in Dartmoor Prison, where the convicts have been displaying serious symptoms of insubordination and opposition to the regulations ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1861
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4157 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FATAL EXPLOSION AT DARTMOOR CONVICT PRISON

... FATAL EXPLOSION AT DARTMOOR CONVICT PRISON. A shocking explosion occurred during quarrying operations at Dartmoor Prison on Monday. A hun• dyed oonvicta had been told off for blasting purposes, under the superintendence of Principal Harder Moore, with ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1887
Newspaper: Luton Reporter
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 212 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... n , ter sentenced Jedl.urgh tour years’penal servitude for forgery and uttering forged letter, and was liberated from Dartmoor Prison licence, on the 24th of December last, having undergone three years and months of his sentence. The balance of a gratuity ...

BREAKING INFO A PRISON

... felony in liondon, previous which he served seven years for manslaughter in Liverpool, lie got over the wall surrounding Dartmoor Prison at midnight on Saturday, and in doing so caught himself in the wire of a bell the main entrance. This drew the attention ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1890
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 341 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DETERMINED ATTACK ON WARDERS

... DETERMINED ATTACK ON WARDERS. A few days since a serious attack was made upon three the warders at Dartmoor Prison one of the convicts. The man in question had previously attacked and injured a prison officer o«med Bond to such extent that tie officer ...

Published: Friday 05 August 1898
Newspaper: Luton Times and Advertiser
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PENNY STBATPOHD

... Improvement Society took place on Thursday evening in the Town Hall when the Rev. Kingscote Greenland, late chap’ lain of Dartmoor prison, delivered a lecture on “Thn Jew Monotheist, Martyr, and Money Lender.’ The Hall was very well filled, the meetings of ...

December last, having undergone three three months of his sentanoe. The bs

... Linlithgow, He despatched the certificate, along with his claim for the balance of the grata!ty, to the Governor of Dartmoor Prison; but that attsial, being auapioioua of the genuineness of the doemneot, communicated to Mr. Colqdhoon, who undo arrangements ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1864
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Flavels Patent Range

... was lound that he answered Ihe deseription of an eseaped conviet from Dartmoor Prison, nud the nathorities of that prison were commuuieated with, The chief | warden of Dartmoor Prison attended before ths f magistrates and identified the prisoner ns a person ...

:D 113CAPM_ PROM DARTMOOR

... :D 113CAPM_ PROM DARTMOOR PRIN. Two convicts, named Dickson and Wilson, made an attempt to escape from Dartmoor prison the other afternoon. A thick mist hung over tht moor during tha morning, and in the afternoon this had developed into i.n almost Im ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1887
Newspaper: Luton Reporter
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CAPTURE OF TWO CONVICTS

... on the Great Western line between Reading and Twyford. It appears that 13 convicts were under orders of removal from Dartmoor prison to Chatham, and were fastened to each other by the hands with the usual irons and chains, and they were all orderly and ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1860
Newspaper: Luton Times and Advertiser
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 752 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CONSCIENCE-MONEY AND THE CHURCH

... received, as will be seen from the following document, which was handed to him prior to his leaving Dartmoor for Bedford:— Dartmoor Prison, Bth April, 1861. “Messenger Blight will escort prisoner W. E Luckyn to Bedford, and place him in the workhouse there ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1861
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1761 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POOR LAW CASE

... sentenced at Jedburgh to four years' penal -ervitude for forgery and uttering a forged letter, and was liberated from Dartmoor Prison on the of ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1864
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: 8 | Tags: none