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DARTMOOR PRISON ESCAPES

... DARTMOOR PRISON ESCAPES Convicts Get Away Under Cover of Mist Two or three convicts are reported to have escaped fro niDartmoor Prison this afternoon during a heavy mist. The prison syren—the signal that a prisoner has escaped—was sounded, and warders ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1932
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 52 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE MUTINY AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... THE MUTINY AT DARTMOOR PRISON took place yesterday. HARRIERS' RACE AT KIRKCALDY 4 4||HHMHHMB||lfl|i( ►»> jP>^liP» ...

Published: Monday 25 January 1932
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 39 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TO ABOLISH DARTMOOR PRISON

... TO ABOLISH DARTMOOR PRISON. The policy prisous, which has been steadily kept in view sinoe the whole of th*-*e institution!* were placed under the H jum Office, i«, aays London correspondent, likt-ly t>) result the abolition very old and couvict esta ...

Published: Thursday 23 July 1891
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DREADFUL OUTRAGES IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... DIEADFUL OUTRAGES IN DARTMOOR PRISON. A correspondent of a London cotemporary calls attention to the atrocious assaults committed by convicts on the warders and other officers in Dartmoor Prison. He ?? Thursday ,last, Warder Rose, who was in charge of ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1862
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 800 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

DARTMOOR PRISON TO BE – DEMOLISHED

... DARTMOOR PRISON TO BE - DEMOLISHED Butler decides against new jail Mr R. A. Butler, the Home Secretary, has decided against a new prison. being built at Princetown, Dartmoor. The present one is to be progressively demolished when other accommodation becomes ...

Published: Friday 02 December 1960
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FIGHT IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... FIGHT DARTMOOR PRISON. A CONVICT KILLED. A parti- IS convicts were esterday employed in connection wit'i the bui'dings at Dartmoor prison raising sand for building purposes. They were under the charge of Warders Kelly and Code and two civil gua ds. One ...

Published: Thursday 09 November 1882
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 182 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE REVOLT AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... THE REVOLT DARTMOOR PRISON. The inquest upon the body of the convict Thomas lie van, who was shot by the warders at Dartmoor on Friday last, he was attempting to escape after inciting to rebellion, was resumed yesterday. A verdict of justifiable homicide ...

Published: Friday 19 November 1880
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NEST GOVERNOR OF : DARTMOOR PRISON

... NEST GOVERNOR OF : DARTMOOR PRISON . Me 5 . X . Roeeki-, governor of Biriuuiijhaui Jail , las been nppoinicd governor of Dartmoor Prison , Prineciown , to * succeed Major J . H . Morris , who has been appointed Chief Constable of Devon . Me Roberts was ...

Published: Tuesday 03 March 1931
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 61 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A GLANCE AT IHE DARTMOOR PRISON

... A GLANCE AT IHE DARTMOOR PRISON. Leaving Wirldicombe, we pass two bridges, and at length reach Prince Town. • most dreary village, 1400 feet above the sea level, and surrounded on all sides by the moor. At a short distance is the celebrated Dartmoor Priaon ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1862
Newspaper: North British Agriculturist
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1525 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

THE ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON

... THE ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON. At Ashburton, Devonshire, on Friday, John Bray, the convict whose extraordinary escapades after getting away from Dartmoor Prison during a fog caused great excitement in the neighbourhood a few weeks since, was charged ...

Published: Monday 18 August 1884
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON

... ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON. a. Plymouth correspondent telegraphs: Two warders from Dartmoor Prison arrived Plymouth early this morning in search of convict named Morgan, who escaped from the prison about nine o'clock last night. The man severed the bars ...

Published: Monday 03 January 1898
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 480 | Page: 3 | Tags: none