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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

Snow earns Vera a place in the sun

... expectant mother to hospital. The Dartmoor prison medical officer was called out to help with the birth. Later the helicopter got down to pick up three other expectant mothers. All the women are wives of Dartmoor prison officers. Busy bird thief Pol:ce ...

Published: Friday 01 February 1963
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 185 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SEASIDE.FUN FIR 600 IN DARTIVIO R

... FUN FIR 600 IN DARTIVIO R TWO girls in bikinis will appear on Sunday in a gay, holiday show—inside DARTMOOR PRISON, near Princetown, Devon. A Dartmoor prison officer said last night: A lot of the chaps who are serving long sentences, haven't seen bikini ...

Published: Thursday 25 August 1960
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 221 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A CELL-OUT

... A CELL-OUT TRADER Paul Norrish is selling cell doors from Dartmoor prison to crimeplagued Americans desperate to keep thieves out of their homes. ...

Published: Sunday 07 November 1993
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 23 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Save Dartmoor!

... Save Dartmoor! YOU want Dartmoor Prison pulled down (Editorial. August 4). Our sympathy goes out to the officers and their families, but don't forget that decent people need ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1953
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 28 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Prisoner caught

... Prisoner caught Patrick Kenny, aged 38. who escaped on Monday from an outside working party at Dartmoor Prison, was recaptured yesterday Newton Abbot ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1961
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 23 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Prisoner found

... Prisoner found William Taylor. aged et who tailed to return to Dartmoor prison from paroie on Toupday. was arrested at Blackpool yesterday. ...

Published: Friday 26 June 1964
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 22 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Prison wall collapses

... Prison wall collapses Another 30 feet of the 20ft.- high outer wall of Dartmoor Prison collapsed yesterday. There Is now a 50ft. gap being guarded by armed warders. Home Office surveyors say the whole stretcn of the south-east wall, built in 1814. is ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1960
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 65 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Wonderful

... Wonderful The play. My Three Angels. was produced for the Dartmoor Prison Drama Group by a Tavistock public school master. Mr. Robert Edwards. Three of the play's characters are women, and three women. with local amateur dramatic experience came to ...

Published: Monday 04 April 1960
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Warder was mob contact

... Warder was mob contact A MAN took a job as warder at Dartmoor Prison so that he could look after convicts for a London mob. ----- This was the boast be made to his landlord. it, yesterday. When the warder. James Edward Joy Adkins. left lodgings the landlord ...

Published: Saturday 06 August 1960
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 76 | Page: 3 | 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 ...