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THE BISLEY MEETING

... Wilts .. a3 L. & B.W. RAILWAY (S.R.)-200 Yards. Fte. Grist, 2nd Glos.. .,.,,.,,,,.,, 33 DARTMOOR PRISON. A convict escaped fromr Dartmoor prison, Prineetown, yesterday afternoon, but was captured after being at large ior about half an hour. SWINDON ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1899
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 513 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

LETTER FROM THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT. The following letter has, it is stated, been received by Mr. Guildford ..

... FROM THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT. The following letter has, it is stated, been received by Mr. Guildford Onslow, dated from Dartmoor Prison, the 30th ult:— My dear Onslow—Thanks for yours of ths 4th of last December, and the kind promises therein contained ...

Published: Saturday 15 May 1875
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

English Convict [ill]

... 11,dfiO a quarter of a century ago to 4779 in 1894. There hay jast been published a communication from the chaplain at Dartmoor prison which bears indirectly upon the question of the decrease in the number of criminals. He states that the majority of men ...

Published: Saturday 22 September 1894
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1048 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE MINISTERIAL WHITEBAIT DINNER

... youngeat member of the Government ehould take the ohair. Yesterday a new railway line was opened from Prelce- town, where Dartmoor prison is Aituated, to Horrabddge, on the Great Western Railway, The new line Is nine miles long. b At a lergeiy attended meeting ...

Published: Thursday 16 August 1883
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 490 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

INTERVIEW WITH THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT

... to the Morning Advtrtiter th* following account of interview ha and *om* other gaotlsmen have had with Arthur Orton In Dartmoor Prison. He write*:—Onoe six month* Moh convict in this psoal settlement is allowed to see for minute* three frianda. The period ...

Published: Saturday 22 May 1875
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 581 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

A DASH FOR LIBERTY

... reason fur his idisposition by stating that Ieo was shot in the thigh evliile attemlpting with two others to escape from Dartmoor prison awhile undergoing a previouis sentence. The prison authorities at once instituted inuiries, wvhich sl'ft no doubt that ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1896
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 831 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... Orsican..-On Saturday information was received that John Barrow, a convict under sentence of ten years' transportation in Dartmoor prison, bad succeeded in breaking oat of his cell, and effecting an entry into the room of Mfr. C. Miale, one of the wardens ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1852
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 804 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

Local News

... Kingdom. T1B SHcOOv rlNG OF A CONVICT AT DARTMOOoR.-The inquebt on the convict Bevan, who was shot during a disturbance at Dartmoor prison, terminared in a verdict of justitiable homicide, the jury adding that prompt action bad prevented terrible consequences ...

Published: Friday 19 November 1880
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 998 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

RUSSIA

... convict, 1!,0 was sentenced to fifteen years penal servitude for an assault, with intent to kill John Steddon, a warder at Dartmoor Prison, on the 0th of January. The crime was of the most desperate character, and several wvarders were severely injured by the ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1883
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1122 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... e). THo3 LATH Tom PROViS, AIAS SIR RICHARD HUGH SOIYTH.-We -recorded last vevek the death of this notable person, in Dartmoor prison. A coroier's inqneetwas held on the body, on the 24th, when- a verdict wae returnedef o Died from chronic bronchitis ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1855
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1202 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... Sentence was deferred. MUTINY IW A CONVICT PRISONL. C Yesterday afternoon a serious mutiny occurred among Ja the convicts in Dartmoor prison, Devon. A principal J. warder named Wlestlakce, on visiting a gang in the quarry W1 was attacked by one of the prisoners ...

Published: Saturday 13 November 1880
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1235 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

CHINA

... could not be stopped, a tent was erected over the wounded man, who expired two hours later. r Bcddow is in custody. 3 DARTMOOR PRISON. 7 ANOTHER ATTEMPTED ESCAPE. 9 A further daring attempt on the part of two con- - viets to escape from Dartmcor convict ...

Published: Thursday 06 July 1899
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1536 | Page: 8 | Tags: News