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DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. Dartmoor Convict Prison is shortly to receive 300 more prisoners and about 20 additional officers. During the past few days batches of men have been removed from Wormwood Scrubs and Portland to Dartmoor Prison, and many more are expected ...

Published: Tuesday 15 November 1892
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 55 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

SUICIDE IN DARTMOOR ,PRISON

... SUICIDE IN DARTMOOR PRISON. In Dartmoor Prison, during Friday nw'it, prisoner committed suicide, by hanging bfinself in his cell. So rare is such an occurrooce in this prison that the last instancy was that of a French prisoner of war, wl\o stabbad himself ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1884
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 59 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

SUICIDE IN DARTMOOR PInSON

... SUICIDE IN DARTMOOR PInSON. In Dartmoor Prison, during Friday night, a prisoner committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell. So rare is such an occurrence in this prison that the last instanoe was that of a r rench prisoner of war, who stabbed himself ...

Published: Monday 22 September 1884
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 60 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

A CHAPLAINS AMENDE

... A CHAPLAINS AMENDE. Mr Rickards, the chaplain of Dartmoor Prison, whose encounter with a burglar in his study one Sunday night last winter cost that enterprising gentleman his arm, has sent to the Tavistock Hospital as a thank offering for the care taken ...

Published: Friday 03 May 1895
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 59 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

HORRIBLE DEATH ON THEI RAILWAY.■

... HORRIBLE DEATH ON THE RAILWAY. A man of about 60 years of age, believed to be an ex warder of Dartmoor Prison, named Symons, met with a horrible death on Wednesday night at Plymton, near Plymouth. He was in the act of crossing the railway line when he ...

Published: Thursday 14 June 1894
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 67 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF A CONVICT

... ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF A CONVICT. (SPECIAL TELiaBAM. i A convict made a desperate attempt to escape from a cell in Dartmoor prison. He made a large hole in the wall, and his endeavours were only frustrated by his inability to remove a large stone from the ...

Published: Wednesday 20 December 1876
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 61 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LATEST NEWS

... the Government, opposed the motion, which was defeated by a majority of 76. REVOLT AT DARTMOOR.—There was a strike at Dartmoor prison on Monday morning, the convicts one and all refusing to work. They were accordingly marched back and confined in separate ...

Published: Friday 17 June 1864
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE DEATH OF, A CO-NVICT

... body of a convict named William Murray, who was shot dead on Wednesday bv a warder named Kellv, whom he had attacked at Dartmoor Prison. After evidence had been given, the jurv returned a verdict that deceased came by Ins death whust struggling with a warder ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1882
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

ATTACK ON DARTMOOR WARDERS

... Devonport telegram says it has just tran- spired that a few days since a serious attack was made upon three of the warders at Dartmoor prison by one of the convicts. The man had pre- viously injured a prison officer. On this account a special watch was placed ...

Published: Monday 01 August 1898
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

DARING ESCAPE OF CONVICTS

... DARING ESCAPE OF CONVICTS. [SPECIAL TELEGRAM.1 As a party of convicts were at work yesterday afternoon outside Dartmoor prison, two of them, named Morgan and liritton, made a sudden dash over a wall. The officer in charge tired in the direction they had ...

Published: Wednesday 22 August 1877
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

DETERMINED ATTACK ON WARDERS

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

Published: Saturday 06 August 1898
Newspaper: Glamorgan Free Press
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 117 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

- ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF A CONVICT

... RUNAWAY SHOT DOWN. A convict who was engaged in drawing stones in the Tavistock roid, about a quarter of a mile roiq Dartmoor prison, made an attempt to escape ou Saturday in broad daylight. Whan performing self jouriwy before dinner, he unyoked him- ...

Published: Monday 24 November 1884
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 118 | Page: 3 | Tags: News