CAPTURE OF TWO CONVICTS

... Great West esn line between Reading and Twyford. It appears that thirteen convicts were under orders of removal from Dartmoor prison to Chatham, and they were placed in the train in two lots, nine being under the charge of two officers, and the remaining ...

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... Witners tuiip' I up the prisoner, a and in the scuffle his hand was bitten. I g Morris Lyneham, chief warder ofi trt Dartmoor prison, J stated that the prisoner had been previouely confined to the l of refractory cell; and on remonstrating with him after ...

STRUGGLE TO BE HONEST

... Mill should have been given up. He told the birmnirghlram police about this, anul hl (Black) wrote to tire Governor of Dartmoor Prison, aslicig that the money shouild be forwearded. Prisouer had called at tire detective office eN -ry morning durin.g the ...

DARTMOOR CONVICTS' ESCAPE

... taken back to Dartmoor Prison. IN; UEST ON THE CONVICT CARTER. .A inquest was held at Princetown on Monday re. ggarding the death of William Carter, aged 22, the convict who was shot dead while endearonring to escape from Dartmoor Prison with Martin and ...

THE CUDHAM MURDER

... continues to increase, as the barbarity of this atrocious murder, and the apparently culpable conduct of the authorities at Dartmoor Prison, in allowing so des- perate a character as the suspected murderer to be set at liberty, becomes daily more conspicuous ...

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—EXETER, JULY 20

... WESTERN CIROUCTT-EXETER, JuzY 20. I John Smith pleaded Guilty to three indictments-one charging him with breaking out of Dartmoor Prison; another with a burglaly; and a third with stealing a horse -all on the sasme night. Sir. Justice Vighitminan, in passing ...

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... sentenced to penal servitude for life.- Thomas Cosiarave was then charged with wounding Ensillet Mason, warder of the Dartmoor prison. with a spade with intent to murder him, on the 29th. November. The prisoner said he was guilty (if striking, but not ...

SINGULAR CHARGE OF BIGAMY

... terms of penal servitude. 'T'wo years or so after his marriage he ran away, and his wifo herring that he had died in Dartmoor Prison, wrote there, and in return received a certificate of his death. He was, however, alive, and in 18S2 was sentenced to ...

A TICKET-OF-LEAVE CASE.—CONDUCT VERY GOOD

... having wounded his wife 6, with intent I to murder her, and sentenced to ten years' Of transportation. He was sent to Dartmoor prison, where he St remained nearly four years, conducting himself very pro- at perly. Mainly through the agency of his wife ...

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENC

... SURPASSED.-On Saturday information was received by the city and metropolitan police of the escape of a notorious convict from Dartmoor Prison, and whilst wearing his prison dress, breaking into a dwelling-house, undressing himself of his poison clothes, robbing ...

Published: Sunday 13 January 1856
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1774 | Page: 2 | Tags: Crime and Punishment 

DEVON LAMMAS ASSIZE

... 3eniton, ?? wil; .enteneed to six weeks' imprisonment, ?? libour.-JOIN l KENNEDY, 24, hawker, to a chlarge of escaping i010 Dartmoor prison on tho 26th May, where he was undergoing, it sentence of eight years for burgzlary at, London,1t11 i'd wsi rentenced to ...

A CONVICT KILLED AT [ill]

... A CONVXCT RILLED AT DAINOGOR.. A party of convicts were on Weduesdafy employed at Dartmoor Prison in raising sand for building gnrposes, under the charge of Warders Kelly and Code and two civil guards. One of the convicts (Murray) refused to work, and ...