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Prison attack hearing

... Prison attack hearing A prisoner aregecT to rave a acked Prison Officer Roche with an iron bar at Dartmoor Prison wit come before a Visiting Committee onMonday. The attack took place in the carpenter's shop about a fortnighl ago. and the officer received ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1952
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 48 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

One still fasts at Dartmoor

... One still fasts at Dartmoor One man was still refuslpg to eat his meals at Dartmoor Prison over the week-end. Ten days ago 47 of the 660 prisoners refused to eat their dinner of stew and rice pudding. Two days later, however. it was reported that all ...

Published: Monday 31 January 1955
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 56 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Dartmoor officer suspended

... Following investigations lasting near , a week into allegations that there had been tobacco smuggling. a senior officer at Dartmoor Prison has been suspended from duty. • A Home Office spokesman said: I An officer has been -suspended and I the matter now in ...

Published: Monday 07 May 1956
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 52 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

COUNSEL'S OPINIONS

... and Mr. Dingle Foot, Q.C., in at Tavistock where they are appearing at the public into the projected building of a new Dartmoor prison. Mr. Bridge is representing the Prison Officers Association, which is opposing the Prison Commission's proposal. Mr. Foot ...

Published: Tuesday 26 April 1960
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 66 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Found shot as gaol class waits

... waits Mr. Trevor Thomas. woodwork teacher at Tavistock (Devon) Grammar School. who was due to take a woodwork class a: Dartmoor prison yesterday was found shot dead in his garden at Tavistock. A double-barrel shot gun lay nearby. The shooting came to light ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1954
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 54 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WARDER

... WARDER A Dartmoor prison officer received a superficial neck injury this morning when he was attacked lby a prisoner with a kn:fe. the ;Home Office stated. I The attack occurred in one of 'the workshops but no other ;prisoner took part, said a spokesman ...

Published: Monday 24 November 1958
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 61 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Princetown

... Fellowship of the Methodist C hurcfi. The Women’s Fellowship nationally have taken over an old, disused chapel near to Dartmoor Prison and are converting it into a hostel for prisoners’ wives, O that they have somewhere to stay when they are visiting their ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1982
Newspaper: Brighouse Echo
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 69 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Dartmoor escape: Bail for warder

... Dartmoor escape: Bail for warder Leslie Walton Abbott, Dartmoor prison officer, was remanded on bail until December 14 when he appeared at Tavistock (Devon) Yesterday charged with aiding a prisoner to escape. Abbott was arrested on Friday after he reported ...

Published: Wednesday 23 November 1955
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 63 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR “TUNNEL” DENIAL

... DARTMOOR “TUNNEL” DENIAL A Home Office spokesman in London today denied regorts that officers checking buildings at Dartmoor Prison had discovered the start of an escape tunnel in the mailbag shop. “These reports are quite untrue ” the spokesman said ...

Published: Friday 24 August 1962
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FREDDIE MI

... FREDDIE MI MORE than 600 men in Dartmoor Prison saw a boxing display in the prison grounds yesterday between Freddie Mills. former light heavyweight boxing champion of the world, and the prison chaplain, the Rev. Lloyd Rees, Vicar of Princetown. They ...

Published: Monday 18 August 1952
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 5 | Tags: none