... 36 years of h tage. k Our Tavistock correspondent telegraphs that tl the convict William M.Nforgan, who escaped from u Dartmoor Prison on Sunday night, was captured . *-estetrday evening at Chagford. Chagford is _ situated on the edgo of Dartnmor, some ...

... period to be once well flogged. AN EscAPED ColvTIC.-John . Cotton pleaded lguilty to a charg of feloniously escapinig iron Dartmoor prison, and being at large before the I expiration of a, period of transportation to which head been ?? Srom inquiries made by ...

... s isseeect.] MatUTINY OP CONVICTS AT DA3RTMhOOE. A serious mutiny occurred on Friday afternoon among the convicts in Dartmoor prison, at Princetown, Devon. A principal warder, named Westlake, on visiting the gang in a quarry, was attacked by one of the ...

... to be 8 once well flogged. e As EsCAPsD CONVICT.-John Cotton pleaded f guilty to a charge of feloniously escaping trom Dartmoor prison, and being, at large before the 0 expiration of a period of transportation to which 5 he had been ?? appeared from inquiries ...

... COiYtICT QUESTION.. [EFrom Colonel ,Jebb's Report to Lord Palmerston. t Cortinued from the Daily Aess of Sept. 17.] DARTMOOR PRISON. There is, at the present time, accommodation at this esta- blishmentfor nearly 1,300 prisozers, with quarters for the ...

... Queen's evidence. lie FATAL EXPLOSION AT DARTMOOR. a A shocking explosion occurred during some quarry- ge ing operations at Dartmoor Prison on hMonday. A c- 1 hundred convicts had been told off to blast, under ,ut the superintendence of principal warder Moore ...

... huilcs at Wociwich, where he remained until January last, when on order was sent for his removal, with other convicts, to Dartmoor prison. The whole of the convicts wore chained together, and upon their arrival at Plymouth the chain broke, whether by accident ...

... bulsiness of the eseion, with the exc-ption of the Vl formal ?? for confirmation, then terminated. t A convict warder of Dartmoor prison was on Tuesday ^ attacked by one of the convicts with a pickaxe, and struck s violently on the head. His hat protected ...

... feniale, who had several times been tried and convicted of highway robbery, and had a short time ago been liberated from Dartmoor Prison, where she underwent four years' penal servitude, was brought before Air. Bsrchani, charged with stealing a 5s. piece ...

... female, who had several times been ted and convicted of highway robbery, and bad a short time ago been liberated from Dartmoor prison, where she underwent four years' upeal eervi- tude, was charged with stealing a five-ehilling piece from the person of ...

... A StARE IN 501TII DEVON. O William J, Distin Steer, 53, farrier, now n undergoing three years penal serv itntde ait I Dartmoor Prison was brought illp from that ( establishmtent, charrseel whith stealing a mare a the property of John Crispin 'ln1iter, ...

... of penal servitude. A couple of years or so after his man iage he ran away, and his wife, hearing that he had died in Dartmoor prison, wrote there, and in return received a certificate of his death, He was, however, alive, and in 1882 he was sentenced ...