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AFFRAY AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... AFFRAY AT DARTMOOR PRISON. A deepest• assault was made on a warder at the convict establishment at Princetown on Wednesday. A gang of convicts who had been engaged at drained@ and reclamation work on the prison farm were mustered and interrogated as to ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1883
Newspaper: Kentish Independent
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A FIRE AT _DARTMOOR PRISON

... A AT _DARTMOOR PRISON. A fire broke out in Convict on Saturday night. Warder Ellis, while passing through the prieou, about ten o'clock, saw dames through the win of thetailors' shop. He raised an alarm, and the prison fire-engine was speedily brought ...

Published: Tuesday 08 January 1889
Newspaper: Evening News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 482 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Fatal Explosion at Dartmoor Convict Prison

... Fatal Explosion Dartmoor Convict Prison. An explosion occurred during quarrying operations at Dartmoor Prison yesterday. A hundred convicts had been told off f r blasting purposes under the superintendence of Principal Warder Moore, with Mr. Bodiner second ...

Published: Tuesday 13 September 1887
Newspaper: St James's Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 286 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

CONVICT LIFE: DARTMOOR PRISON. the two preceding Numbers of this Journal, have presented a series of ..

... CONVICT LIFE: DARTMOOR PRISON. the two preceding Numbers of this Journal, have presented a series of Illustrations of Princetown, on Dartmoor, and of the large Convict Prison now maintained there, m the buildings erected seventy-five years ago for the ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1884
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 258 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

conspiracy at dartmoor prison. Somewhat alarm! rumours have been set in circulation as irisubonUnntii :nnoo£ ..

... conspiracy at dartmoor prison. Somewhat alarm! rumours have been set in circulation as irisubonUnntii :nnoo£ the conricts at Dartmoor, aml«von of a plan elaborately prepared for a general escape of the prisoners. Sir John Duckworth, one of the convict ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1882
Newspaper: North London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 791 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE IRISH INVINCIBLE CONVICTS,

... IRISH INVINCIBLE CONVICTS, The Irish Invincible convicts (a Dublin correspondent says) are about to brought back from Dartmoor Prison to Ireland, and will probably be confined an Ulster convict establishment. A promise to this effect was recently made ...

Published: Friday 12 September 1884
Newspaper: St James's Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 52 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR CONVICT

... PRISON. Asbbnrton, Devonshire, yesterday, John Bray the convict whose extraordinary escapades after getting away from Dartmoor Prison during fog itued great excitement in the neighbourhood a few weeks since, was charged with breaking into farmhouse and ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1884
Newspaper: Globe
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ATTEMPTED ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR

... ATTEMPTED ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON, Tito conricta nuaea Dickson and Wilson made an attempt to escape from Dartmoor prison yesterday afternoon. tni£k mist hung over the moor durinc the morning, and'ln the afternoon this had developed into almost im ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1887
Newspaper: Globe
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 233 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The Escape of a Convict from Dartmoor

... food, clothing, and other property. The accused was alleged to have committed the offences after making his escape from Dartmoor Prison. He eluded the warders during the prevalence of dense fog, and a week elapsed before be was recaptured. He was committed ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1884
Newspaper: St James's Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 77 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Attack by a Convict

... Attack by a Convict. A convict named Hanley, who was engaged in compaiy with other coivicts reclaiming land near Dartmoor Prison, made determined attack an offi:er yesterday, striking him across the head with a crowbar and rendering him insensible. The ...

Published: Tuesday 23 September 1884
Newspaper: St James's Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

A LETTER FROM THE CLAIMANT

... Mr. Chamberlain, as an advocate of the rights of thwpirople, that in September, 1877, when the Claimant was visited at Dartmoor Prison by Lord Rivers, Mr. Onslow, and Mr. East, the latter submitted a photograph which the writer at once identified as that ...