... 'Moor man dies A jury at Dartmoor prison hospital yesterday returned a Natural death verdict on Graham St. John Cooper (60). found dead in his cell. Cooper was serving seven years for forgery and theft. ...

... Warder A DARTMOOR prison officer is in a Plymouth hospital with a fractured skull after being attacked by a convict with a spade. George Dingley, a trainee °Meer from Birmingham, was suddenly hit on the head by a moody lone-wolf type as a party were ...

... seen. Bond. aged 32. was serving a five-year sentence imposed at Middlesex Sessions in 1953 for receiving. On Saturday a Dartmoor prison officer. Leslie Walton Abbott. of Princetovrn, was charged with helping him to escape and was remanded in custody till ...

... Bookmaker in the gaol DARTMOOR prison authorities have discovered a big betting school on horse racing among the 600 convicts in the gaol. For some time one of the convicts has acted as turf accountant. receiving bets in tobacco and paying out the convict ...

... operation and last night was stated to be comfortable. Dingley served with the Welch Fusiliers during the war. He has been in Dartmoor Prison for about two months. His wife and four-year-old son live in Hessenford, Cornwall. It is understood that before the operation ...

... Dartmoor GEORGE FREDERICK JACKSON (31), serving a five-year sentence in Dartmoor Prison who escaped at 5.35 p.m. last night from an outside working party at the prison farm was still free at 1 a.m. today. He was sentenced at Manchester City Quarter Sessions ...

... to gaol TWENTY-FIVE - YEAR - OLD Harold (Rubber Bones) Webb. who wormed his way to freedom through a heating-duct at Dartmoor Prison a week ago, was driven from West End Central Police Station to Wandsworth Prison yesterday. Webb. who was arrested in ...

... WARDER: INFORMER WAS GIVEN GUARD A DARTMOOR prison officer said at Devon Quarter Sessions at Exeter yesterday that a prison informer had been taken into protective custody, although that was not usual. The warder, Stanley Alfred Clarry (34) pleaded ...

... and forensic scientists looked for traces of unburnt explosives to see if they were similar to gelignite stolen from a Dartmoor Prison quarry last week. It is thought that only two men may have carried out the raid. The money would have needed perhaps more ...

... any ill will—we just want our rights. Dartmoor prison officer suspended Following investigations lasting nearly a week into allegations that there had been tobacco smuggling. a senior officer at Dartmoor Prison has been suspended from duty. A Home Office ...

... moored at Plymouth thousands of French prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars sweated. They were dreadfully overcrowded. So Dartmoor Prison was built. Its start was a gloomy one. The Plymouth Coroner held more inquests in one year at Dartmoor than in the 14 ...

... Education Committee if the governors are unable or unwilling to carry on as at present Nativity play at Dartmoor Prison More than 600 Dartmoor prisoners yesterday saw a Nativity play. The Three Kings presented in the prison chapel by 30 fellow convicts ...