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

... DARTMOOR PRISON. In the House of Commons on Friday evening, Mr. Kennaway asked the Secretary of State for the Home department whether his attention had been called to the last report of the governor and chaplain of Dartmoor Prison with reference to the ...

... DARTMOOR PRISON. Captain Gambier, the visiting justice, has made his award of punishments to those convicts who bore part in the threatened outbreak which was planned to take place at Dartmoor on the 13th instant. About 50 of the ringleaders have been ...

... DARTMOOR PRISON. The report of the directors of convict prisons has just been issued. The Governor of the Dartmoor Prison reports that on the 1 at January, 1864, there were 742 prisoners under his care, and that he received 318 during the year. This total ...

... DARTMOOR PRISON. A contemporary relates the following :—We were going leisurely up the road, when I Haw a in a dark coat standing on the bank with a gun in the hollow of his arm, looking at something beneath him in the field, and having the appearance ...

... DARTMOOR PRISON. Captain Gambier, the visiting Justice, has made his award of punishments to those convicts who heirs part in tbe threatened outbreak, which was planned to take place at Dartmoor, on the 131 n instant. About fifty of the ringleaders have ...

... THE DARTMOOR PRISON! Some time ago we, upon good grounds, gave the public reason to tbink that the state of these prisons was not so satisfactory it should be. the time, the charges which led to this inference were met alter certain fashion, and,of course ...

... DARTMOOR PRISON. A contemporary relates the following ; —We were going leisurely up the road, when I faw a man in dark coat standing on the bank with a gun in the hollow of his arm, looking at something beneath him the field, and having the appearance ...

... 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. 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 ...

... The Dartmoor Prison. In Dartmoor prisons a large reduction is being made in the number of the convicts. A little over twelve months since there were over 1,000 there ; now there are only The Treasury have noticed the large expenditure incurred in railway ...

... DARTMOOR PRISON. ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE. Another attempt to escape from the convict establishment, Princttown, Dartmoor, was made on Friday evening. When the working parties received orders to fall in at five o'clock to return to the prison a couvict ...