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DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. The report of the directors of convict prisons has jus' 1 issued. The Governor of the Dartmoor Prison reports that on the Ist January, IS* 14, there were 71'- prisoners under his care, and that received ■ >1S during the year, This total ...

Published: Thursday 17 August 1865
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 390 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MR. ALLEN, M.P., AT NEWCASLE-UNDERLYME

... -Ths Chief Snperintendent of Scotland Yard states that thero in no truth wsistover in the roport that an official from Dartmoor Prison has arrived at Scotland Yard with information respecting the IHatton Garden robbery, neither is any ?? official expected ...

Published: Friday 25 November 1881
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 615 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS

... to invade l1lentch, Y. a territory belonging to Bulgaria, and to carry off the Ianrops, t, SUICIDE OF A CO' NVICT.-At Dartmoor prison, during a Friday night, a prisoner committed suicide by hanging him- es self in his cell. So rare is this occurrence in ...

Published: Monday 22 September 1884
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 669 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... to come t6 England. The Westerva Morning News says that Rose, the warder svhowas so brutally attacked by a prisoner at Dartmoor Prison, is now in a fair way for recovery, though it is feared he will never be altogether free from the effects of the injuries ...

THE TERRIBLE COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN SOUTH WALES

... to o strong division of opinion on thoe propriety of claiming tlle seat. ATTEMPTED 'ESCAPE _OF A CONVICT. A convict at Dartmoor prison' was yesterday morning 'discoverpe4 to bel attempting to escape by diggisg his way through the thick wall of the prisOnI ...

Published: Wednesday 20 December 1876
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1075 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

ROMANTIC CASE OF BIGAMY AT BROMSGROVE

... 1877 she wrote to Dautmoorabout him, and received the certificate (produced) of the death of George Drury, cooper, in Dartmoor prison, on 'the 17th September, 1887. Adelaide Hemming, Evesham, proved that she was present at the marriage of Mary Ann Drury ...

DUDLEY AND MIDLAND FIELD CLUB

... different destinations. BREAKING INTO A CONVICT PRISON. A Plymouth telegram states that on Saturday night the officers of Dartmoor Prison were alarmed by the ringing of the bell at the main entrance, and on instituting a search found a man concealed in a closet ...

Published: Monday 18 August 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1380 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

GENERAL NEWS

... A CoNvioT AErrLSMm'TING TO ESCAkPE FROMDARTMisOOR. -A convict named Laxton made a desperate attempt to escape from Dartmoor Prison on Thursday night. He lid been shut in his ceU for the night, there being tvo fect of granite masonry between him and ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1881
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1390 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

GENERAL NEWS

... various parts of the country. MUTINY BY CONVIOTS. Yesterday afternoon a serious mutiny occurred among the convicts in Dartmoor Prison, at Princettown, Devon. A principal warder, named Westlake, on visiting the gang in tise quarry was attacked by one ot ...

Published: Saturday 13 November 1880
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1339 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

The Provinces

... Heln- shore, was brought isp for wandering in the streets at all early hour that morning. The prisoner, who wore the Dartmoor prison dress, said that lie was on his way to Helhusiorc, below Heslendeni; that in 18i1 lie was sen- tinced to seven years' ...

Published: Monday 12 July 1858
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1492 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

STRANGE DOINGS AT DARTMOOR

... compelled to abstain from enjoyments which no misconduct of theirs has forfeited, our interesting friends, the convicts in Dartmoor Prison have kept high festival in their own peculiar way, namely, by attempting to get up a revolt, in which they happily failed ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1863
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1663 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE NAVAL MANOEUVRES

... also with the intention of firing the building, and, further, with killing a sheep. The prisoner was discharged from Dartmoor prison in January. 1889, and says be returned to have his revenge on Mr Hardy, the chief warder, for whom he entertains intense ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1890
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2591 | Page: 5 | Tags: News