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DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. RUMOURS OF ATTEMPT AT OUTBREAK. Rumours were current at Princetown last week that the convicts in the Dartmoor Prison would make a determined attempt to break out during service on Sunday. It aas not possible to trace the origin of the ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1899
Newspaper: Chard and Ilminster News
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 278 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Dartmoor Prison

... The Dartmoor Prison. In Dartmoor prisons a large reduction is being made in the number of the convicts. A little over twelve months since there were over 1,000 there ; now there are only The Treasury have noticed the large expenditure incurred in railway ...

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE. Another attempt to escape from the convict establishment, Princttown, Dartmoor, was made on Friday evening. When the working parties received orders to fall in at five o'clock to return to the prison a couvict ...

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE. Aaoth'-r attempt to escape from the convict establishment, Princetowu, Dartmoor, was made on Friday eveniug. When the working parties received orders to fall at five o'clock to return to the prison convict named ...

Published: Friday 21 July 1899
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 134 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OUTBREAK AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... OUTBREAK AT DARTMOOR PRISON. SERIOUS SITUATION SA ED. It transpired on Saturday that a few days ago. at Prineetown Prison, Dartmoor, a very serious situation was saved by the alert and prompt action of • warder. A gang of convicts were engaged in the ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1899
Newspaper: Langport & Somerton Herald
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 327 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ESCAPE FROM _DARTMOOR PRISON

... ESCAPE FROM _DARTMOOR PRISON. [Br TELRGRAIIII - A couvict, named Morgan, on Sunday night severed the bars of a window in his cell at Dartmoor Prison, and dropped into a yard, a distance of 12 feet. He got clear away. A diligent search is being made for ...

Murderous Assault at Dartmoor Prison

... Murderous Assault at Dartmoor Prison. A murderous and unprovoked assault was committed on Tuesday at Dartmoor prison, Princetown, Warder Carter, by a convict named Davidson. The officer was in charge of the sail-making room, when the prisoner rushed him ...

BREAKING INTO DARTMOOR PRISON

... BREAKING INTO DARTMOOR PRISON. Threats of Revenge against Wabder. Tavistock on Tuesday Joseph Denny, alias Geo. Adolphus Gordon, coloured native of Barbadoes, was charged with breaking into the Dartmoor Convict Prison on Saturday night, with intent to ...

DARTMOOR PRISON. ANOTBER ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE

... DARTMOOR PRISON. ANOTBER ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE. Anoth-T attstupt to twat* flow the eonviet establish- Frineetown, Dartantor e made on Friday evening. When the working pstti-st orillul to faU in at bee &dunk to re'..ri to the prison a conviat nnued Joseph ...

SERIOUS MUTINY AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... SERIOUS MUTINY DARTMOOR PRISON. TWO CONVICTS SHOT. On Friday afternoon, serious mutiny occurred i .amongst the convicts at Dartmoor Prison. The attempt ,to escape was a desperate one, and must have been nnea for some time beforehand. The convicts are ...

Published: Friday 19 November 1880
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 1941 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DASTARDLY ATTACK ON A WARDER AT DARTMOOR PRISON. A FIEND IN HUMAN MIX

... DASTARDLY ATTACK ON A WARDER AT DARTMOOR PRISON. A FIEND IN HUMAN MIX The Treasury, acing natter diroelieso ben the Ni.. I Secretary, pot srhomm Janes, • soviet lien Li=, upon has trial for maliciously w•unding Joni assommit.wer. .er, on the of Jamu m ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1883
Newspaper: Chard and Ilminster News
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 2452 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Breaking into Dartmoor Convict Prison

... coloured man named Joseph Denny, who has done what is called amongst convicts two leggings during the last ten years at Dartmoor prison, made li s at Princetown by tram on Fridty. On arriving he enquired where Mr Barrington (the Duchy steward)lived, explaining ...