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Arson blamed for Dartmoor prison blaze

... Arson blamed for Dartmoor prison blaze A RSON was last night suspected as th e cause of a fire which severely damaged a mat - making shop at Dartmoor Prison yesterday. Smoke was seen coming from the green asbestos roof of the shop shortly after 1 p.m ...

Published: Sunday 22 February 1959
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 133 | Page: 32 | Tags: none

PANTO FOR DARTMOOR HUNDRED prisoners A will stood the concert hall at Dartmoor Prison this ay No the pantomime Disk

... PANTO FOR DARTMOOR HUNDRED prisoners A will stood the concert hall at Dartmoor Prison this ay No the pantomime Disk liffliNtington granule/ by tO of their fellows. This pantomime is ~ors' own effort. The imet have rehearsed thres timos a walk over the ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1952
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 92 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DAILY MIRROR, Friday, December 4, 1959 PAGE 3 PRISON PLAN STORM A NEW Dartmoor Prison is being planned. If the

... DAILY MIRROR, Friday, December 4, 1959 PAGE 3 PRISON PLAN STORM A NEW Dartmoor Prison is being planned. If the plan is approved it will be built near the present prison at Princeton, Devon. The cost: X 1,500,000. The scheme, announced yesterday, is backed ...

Published: Friday 04 December 1959
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 282 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CONVICT SURRENDERS TO SAVE FRIEND NEWS CHRONICLE REPORTER FIiANK GORDON COOK was in a punishment cell in ..

... CONVICT SURRENDERS TO SAVE FRIEND NEWS CHRONICLE REPORTER FIiANK GORDON COOK was in a punishment cell in Dartmoor Prison last night. His friend, Waiter William Smith, another convict, was in t Plymouth hospital with a broken back. Together they had escaped ...

Published: Monday 03 December 1951
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 529 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Hume leaves Dartmoor Two hours before the normal release time. Donald Brian Hume, jailed for 12 years in 1950 ..

... Brian Hume, jailed for 12 years in 1950 as an accessory after the murder of car-dealer Stanley Betty. was smuggled out ot Dartmoor Prison by a back entrance yesterday. Carrying an attach case he tAtinto a waiting car which to London. Hume. 38- year -old former ...

Published: Sunday 02 February 1958
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 101 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Mr. Aloysius Slobber, Member of Parliament for Wallow-in-the-Slush, and vice-president of the People's Popular ..

... last night made a trenchant attack on the Government for permitting corporal punishment to be inflicted on a man in Dartmoor Prison. Here are some extracts from Mr. Slobber's speech: IT must not be thought, Mr. Speaker, that I condone violence. Far from ...

Published: Friday 12 December 1952
Newspaper: Truth
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1048 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

ESCAPED DARTMOOR MAN GIVES HIMSELF UP A ITER eikaping from a working party outside Dartmoor Prison yesterday, ..

... ESCAPED DARTMOOR MAN GIVES HIMSELF UP A eikaping from a working party outside Dartmoor Prison yesterday, Arthur Cyril Savery, 33, serving a five-y'ear sentence, gave himself up last night at a farmhouse three miles from Tavistock. The fanner. Mr. Glynne-Percy ...

Published: Sunday 16 January 1955
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 120 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Dartmoor man gets 8 years

... while serving four years in Dartmoor Prison the clerk lan Douglas Stewart, of Aytoun Road. Brixton. became the pen friend of a woman. and on completing his sentence he was married to her by the prison chaplain of Dartmoor Prison. Stewart also asked that ...

Published: Friday 04 June 1954
Newspaper: Westminster & Pimlico News
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 218 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Harold Dearden’s

... Harold Dearden’s Hailed by stdes EX-DET. SUPT. ROBERT of Scotland Yard says: ‘ You should not EX-CONVICT No. 317 late of Dartmoor Prison says : Wit h new and exciting studies of the criminal mind READY LT I 9s 6d net illustrations A N 2 LS L ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1951
Newspaper: Bookseller
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 47 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

What the Dartmoor convicts wrote ..

... convicts wrote .. . By TOM TULLETT SEVEN wives met under the shadow of Dartmoor Prison and angrily defended themselves against a smear on their morals. The seven are wives of Dartmoor prison officers who live at Princetown, Devon. And the allegations are made ...

Published: Sunday 21 March 1954
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 131 | Page: 5 | Tags: none