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Fatal Explosion at Dartmoor Prison

... Fatal Explosion at Dartmoor Prison. A shocking explosion occurred n: some blasting operations at Lsartmoor P,iioo yesterday. A hundred convicts bail been told off to blast, under the eaperintendonee of the principal warder, Moore, end Mr Barbee', second ...

Published: Tuesday 13 September 1887
Newspaper: Evening Gazette (Aberdeen)
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 434 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ESCAPE OF CONVICTS

... ESCAPE OF CONVICTS. Eights convicts escaped yesterday afternoon frem Dartmoor Prison. Six were captured, one; being eriously wounded a shot. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 September 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 20 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Man*eisles, Sunday —Oruba, Sydney for London, left

... Man*eisles, Sunday —Oruba, Sydney for London, left. MURDETJOrS ATTACK AT DARTMOOR, It reported thst convict Dartmoor Prison has attacked three warders with knife. He was overpowered and secured after a (earful strujrcie. The same convict recently attacked ...

Published: Tuesday 02 August 1898
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 52 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE HATTON GARDEN JEWEL ROBBERY.,

... THE HATTON GARDEN JEWEL ROBBERY., With reference to the Hatton Garden ?:‘wol robbery, an official from Dartmoor Prison visited Scotland Yard yesterday to lay before the heads of the Crimival Investigation Department certain information received from a ...

Published: Thursday 24 November 1881
Newspaper: Aberdeen Free Press
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 106 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ATTEMPTED ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR

... ATTEMPTED ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR. A convict who was engaged drawing stones, Tavistock road, about a quarter of a mile from Dartmoor prison, made attempt to escape on Saturday, in broad daylight. When performing his last journey before dinner he unyoked himself ...

Published: Monday 24 November 1884
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 107 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TWENTY PERSONS FROZEN TO DEATH

... Plymouth the absolute desrth of watir is such tbat bakers oan no obtain it to carry on thi ir basis's& At Plineetown, where Dartmoor Prison Is situated, the sonply of flour is exhausted, and some days mist elapse before supplies reach it. ...

THE TICHBORNE CAHE

... letter asking for a [Mirtrait of the Claimant, for purposes of identification, Mrde Morgan Las received the following :—“ Dartmoor Prison.- lam in receipt of your applicat : for a portrait of com et 1139, Thomas Castro, and beg to inform you that I cannot ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1877
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Desperate Assault by a Con- yid

... Desperate Assault by a Con- yid. A. convict named Henley, who was engaged wet other convicts reclaiming land near Dartmoor Prison, made a determined attack yesterday on an officer, striking Lim across the bead with a crowbar, rendering him insensible ...

Published: Tuesday 23 September 1884
Newspaper: Evening Gazette (Aberdeen)
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FATAL BLASTING ACCIDENT

... FATAL BLASTING ACCIDENT. A shocking explosion occurred during some quarry blasting operations at Dartmoor Prison yesterday. A hundred convicts had been told off to blast under the superintendence of Principal Warder Moore and Mr Bodiner, second in command ...

Published: Tuesday 13 September 1887
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 190 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE HATTON GARDEN ROBBERY,

... Scotland Yard requests the Central News to state that there is no truth whatever in the report that an official from Dartmoor Prison has arrived at Scotland Yard with information respecting the Hatton Garden robbery, neither is any such official expected ...

Published: Friday 25 November 1881
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 213 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A REPROOF FROM THE BENCH

... convict, aged 19, was sentenced fifteen years' penal servitude for assault with intent to kill John Staddon, a warder at Dartmoor prison, on the 9th of January last. In the course the hearing of the case, the prisoner complained that had been ill-used when ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1883
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 216 | Page: 2 | Tags: none