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THE INSIDE OF DARTMOOR PRISON

... THE INSIDE OF DARTMOOR PRISON. THE MAINTENANCE AND CARE OF CONVICTS. The total number of prisoners at Dartmoor during the year ended March 31st last was 1,187, the daily average being 877. One hundred and five convicts were guilty of violence, two attempted ...

Published: Friday 16 September 1898
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 829 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FATAL EXPLOSION AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... FATAL EXPLOSION AT DARTMOOR PRISON. A shocking explosion occurred during some blaslinsr operation* Dartmoor Prison yesterday. A hundred convicts bad been off to blast, under the superintendence Principal Varder Moore and Mr. Bod or, command. About eleven ...

ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON

... IXAITE FxROM DARTMOOR PRISON. A 't)N\VICT'S DARIING. -e Iwo warders front Dartmoor P'rison arrived at he . enrouth early vestorday mornin- in search of a sa ] tijuvict na III ed ?orgau, wvho cscaped' froni the prison ?? 9 o'oloek oli Sunday night. The ...

INQUEST AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... INQUEST AT DARTMOOR PRISON. Coroner Frickmtn held inquest at tha Convict Prison at Dartmoor yesterday touching the death of Thomas Bennett, who was convicted for larceny at the Liverpool Ass'zes, Jnly, 1887, and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1894
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MUTINY AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... MUTINY AT DARTMOOR PRISON. TWO CONVICTS FATALLT SHOT. For considerable time past there has been a feeling of anxiety among the officials at the convict prison at Princetown, an intimation having been received that preparations were being made for a mutiny ...

Published: Thursday 18 November 1880
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3215 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Escapes From Dartmoor Prison

... welt-known athiete, oc away, The following description of tbe 'cs~0p1ed prisoner is being circuiated ?? E,.a-el from Dartmoor prison on Dereeirber 2hn. 13o6, at 11.10 a.m., convict, P T.W 26, W l':p (. l dwr, , alias John James j-Iameuood, ard a'ar-. ...

BREAKING INTO DARTMOOR PRISON

... BREAKING INTO DARTMOOR PRISON. INTENTION TO SET THE BUILDING ON FIRE. Tavistock yesterday a coloured man named Denny, who had served a term of penal servitude, was remanded on a charge of breaking into Dartmoor Convict Prison on Saturday night. Prisoner ...

Published: Monday 18 August 1890
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 717 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE CONVICT OUTBREAK AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... THE CONVICT OUTBREAK AT DARTMOOR PRISON. Ralph Goodwin. tb itonvict who escaped on ova and was ultimately captured at k Ifls molly morning of the following SWley, am bees vary ill since from exhansem and bat is now on the way to recovery. Sem al the me* ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1897
Newspaper: Tavistock Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ESCAPE FROM _DARTMOOR PRISON

... ESCAPE FROM _DARTMOOR PRISON. [Br TELRGRAIIII - A couvict, named Morgan, on Sunday night severed the bars of a window in his cell at Dartmoor Prison, and dropped into a yard, a distance of 12 feet. He got clear away. A diligent search is being made for ...

FIRE AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... FIRE DARTMOOR PRISON. Early Thursday morning the Roman Catholic chapel Dartmoor Convict Prison was found bo ou fire. Tha alarm was speedily given, and iv a short the prison officials subdued the flames. Abiut 20 feet of flooring some match boarding were ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1895
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 62 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MUTINY OF CONVICTS.AT DARTMOOR. PRISON

... MUTINY OF CONVICTS AT DARTMOOR. PRISON. ALLEGED BRUTALITY OF WARDERS It trauspircd on Saturday that on Monday last at Princetown Prison, Dartmoor, a serious situation was ouly saved by the alert and prompt action of a warder. A gang of con- vict., were ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1899
Newspaper: York Herald
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

FIGHT IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... FIGHT DARTMOOR PRISON. A CONVICT KILLED. A parti- IS convicts were esterday employed in connection wit'i the bui'dings at Dartmoor prison raising sand for building purposes. They were under the charge of Warders Kelly and Code and two civil gua ds. One ...

Published: Thursday 09 November 1882
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 182 | Page: 3 | Tags: none