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DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. The disparity between the results of convict laboar Dartmoor, and the Chatham, Portland and Portsmouth establishments, toa great extent disappears on examination, inasmuch all work done by the convicts, even though it be unnecessary or ...

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. The following extract is made .'from the annual of the Governor of Dartmoor Prison The conduct of the subordinate officers has been throughout. The improvement in the conduct of the :il luded to my report of last year still following ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1887
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 498 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. July opeiaed upoa us with very unpromising weather, a continuation, in fact, of the storms of June. friend having Secretary of State's Order to see the Convict Prison at Dartmoor, and though it was not exactly the weather one would choose ...

Published: Tuesday 06 July 1875
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2250 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. The disparity between tlie results of la. bonr iv Dartmoor, and the Chatham, Portland ami Portsmouth establishment, to great extent disappears examination, inasmuch as all work done the convicts, even though it be unnecessary or unproductive ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1869
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1602 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE MUTINY AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... THE MUTINY AT DARTMOOR PRISON. JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE. The adjourned inqueet on the body of Themas Bevan, t the convict who was killed while attempting to escape from a the granite quarry, near the convict establishment at Prinon- t town, was held in the ...

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. The report of the Directors of Convict Prisons for the year ending 31st March last has just been issued, and from it learn something of convict life, learning, most persons would, from the outside. The conduct of the officers has been ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1887
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1026 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. A Parliamentary return, signed by the late Major-General Jebb, and Captain Gambier, Director of Convict Prisons, has just been published, and contains full particulars as to the state of the buildings, the behaviour and conduct of the ...

Published: Friday 18 September 1863
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 824 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. nrmores OF ATTEMPT' AT OUTBEkK. Rumours were current at Princetown lust week that the convicts in the Dartmoor Prison would make a determined attempt to break out during service on Sunday. It wee not possible to trace the origin of the ...

Published: Tuesday 11 July 1899
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 161 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON,

... DARTMOOR PRISON, The Plymouth papers publish the following Pm:manta of the oirousastaness under which a convict has made • daring attempt to eaespe from Dartmoor Prison:— About two o'clock yesterday morning a convict named Lexton made an audacious attempt ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1881
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 1882 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

INQUEST AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... INQUEST DARTMOOR PRISON Mr. Prickman held an inquest yesterday at Dartmoor Prison on the body John Thomas Holland, a convict, who died on the 26th Inst.. aged 36 rears. Mr. James was foreman of the jury. George Arnold (Prison Clerk) said the deceased ...

Published: Friday 31 December 1897
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1685 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. IMPRISONMENT AND INSANITY. The report of the Commissioners Prisons for the year ending March 31st last, temporarily opens, so speak, the portals of Dartmoor to the pal Ee. Tie daily average number of prisoners was 967; the greatest number ...

Published: Friday 10 September 1897
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 638 | Page: 5 | Tags: none