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DARTMOOR PRISON TO BE USED

... DARTMOOR PRISON TO BE USED Dartmoor Prison is to be used for Borstal purposes owing to the large increase in the number of youths committed by the courts to Borstal institutions and the problem of accommodation. A Home Office statement says: “The recent ...

Published: Thursday 27 September 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 361 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EARL LLOYD-GEORGE

... EARL LLOYD-GEORGE There was no improvement last night in the condition of Earl Lloyd- George. He remains very weak. Dartmoor Prison is to be used as a military prison under new arrangements, it was announced by the Home Office last night. ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 41 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

COLMORE DEPOT

... Roebuck Lane, West Bromwich. DARTMOOR CONVICT’S NINE HOURS OF LIBERTY RECAPTURED FIFTEEN MILES FROM PRISON Escaping from Dartmoor Prison yesterda afternoon, James Hall, alias George Swift was at liberty for nine hours before recaptu At one o’clock this morning ...

Published: Tuesday 20 February 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 249 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Soldiers Sentenced

... woman at the time of the offence had been married only four weeks. The transfer of between 400 and 500 convicts from Dartmoor Prison to Parkhurst has been completed. Dartmoor is now essentially a military prison. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 94 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TERRORIST CONVICTS MAY BE SEPARATED

... TERRORIST CONVICTS MAY BE SEPARATED As the result of the disorders which broke out in Dartmoor Prison on Saturday, I.R.A. prisoners, who were responsible for the disturbance, may be scattered and distributed among other prisons. The disturbance started ...

Published: Monday 25 March 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 163 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CONVICT LOCKED OLT OF PRISON WALKED BACK AFTER HE WAS LEFT BEHIND

... illagers were astonished yesterday to see a convict walking by himself through Princetown. He went to the main gates of Dartmoor Prison, knocked and said to the gate warder, I ve been locked out.” He had been working in the quarries in the afternoon and ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1939
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 154 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

TWO OTHERS STILL AT LARGE

... TWO OTHERS STILL AT LARGE Alexander Marsh (38), one of the three convicts who escaped from Dartmoor Prison last Wednesday, was captured in London last night. He is in custody at Bow Street Police Station. His first request was for food. London is 250 ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 180 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

ARNOLD. GENDERS

... FINEST SELECTION ON VIEW AT Showrooms: ALCESTER RD. STH.. KING’S HEATH OUTER CIRCLE BUS ROUTE TRAMS 39 & 42 PASS DOOR DARTMOOR PRISON PERSONNEL OF FRENCH CABINET SOME CRITICISM OF PRESENCE OF SIX SOCIALISTS M. REYNAUD MEETS HIS MINISTERS Paris, March 23 ...

Published: Monday 25 March 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 216 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Evangel of Voluntary Service

... the use of the Council Chamber for the meeting, and the Lady Mayoress for her attendance. Two soldiers who escaped from Dartmoor Prison yesterday were recaptured at seven o’clock last night. ...

Published: Saturday 09 June 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 246 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AT DARTMOOR WHY OTHER PRISONERS SET UPON THEM

... AT DARTMOOR WHY OTHER PRISONERS SET UPON THEM An I.R.A. prisoner is in Dartmoor Prison hospital suffering from injuries received in a fight on Monday on the exercise square. The Press Association understands that as a result of the incident the prison ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1939
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 301 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

OBITUARY SIR BASIL THOMSON

... Temple) and in the same year he entered the prison service as a deputy-governor, first of Liverpool, and afterwards at Dartmoor Prison. He was governor successively of Northampton, Cardiff, Dartmoor and Wormwood Scrubs prisons until 1908, when he became ...

Published: Tuesday 28 March 1939
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 365 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

THREE ESCAPED CONVICTS RECAPTURED

... THREE ESCAPED CONVICTS RECAPTURED FOUND NEARLY TWENTY MILES FROM DARTMOOR Three convicts who escaped from Dartmoor Prison early yesterday were recaptured at 1.30 this morning. They are Charles Richard Bishop (44), Arthur John Cox (36) and Thomas Edwards ...

Published: Monday 16 October 1939
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 398 | Page: 8 | Tags: none