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The main entrance to Dartmoor Prison

... The main entrance to Dartmoor Prison. chill, which devolved into pneumonia, and he was In a salons condition for some time. When Gasken escaped from Birmingham Prison in 1921 by means of a rope ladder, he took with him a snit of warder's clothes and several ...

Published: Thursday 17 November 1932
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 316 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MORE TROUBLE AT DARTMOOR. Warders Recalled from Week-End Leave. So tense was the atmosphere at Dartmoor Prison ..

... MORE TROUBLE AT DARTMOOR. Warders Recalled from Week-End Leave. So tense was the atmosphere at Dartmoor Prison on Saturday night that every available warder was requisitioned for duty yesterday, and in some cases men who had gone on week-end leave were ...

Published: Monday 04 April 1932
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 153 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

COURT VIOLENCE PRECAUTION. Bolted-Down Chairs for Dartmoor Case. CONVICTS DO WORK. Superintendent Smith, of the ..

... Bolted-Down Chairs for Dartmoor Case. CONVICTS DO WORK. Superintendent Smith, of the Devonshire Constabulary, attended Dartmoor Prison yesterday and, it understood, formally charged convicts with offences arising out of the recent mutiny. The men, all of ...

Published: Wednesday 09 March 1932
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 68 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

YIfILLIAM SMITH, aged 28, and George Barry, aged 30, two Londoners who are serving terms in Dartmoor Prison, ..

... YIfILLIAM SMITH, aged 28, and George Barry, aged 30, two Londoners who are serving terms in Dartmoor Prison, had two hours of liberty yesterday. At the end of their afternoon's work they vanished from the prison—the seventh escape made this winter during ...

Published: Wednesday 13 March 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 127 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Midland man escapes from Dartmoor—for two hours MAURICE PATRICK MURPHY (24), of Derby, escaped from Dartmoor ..

... Midland man escapes from Dartmoor—for two hours MAURICE PATRICK MURPHY (24), of Derby, escaped from Dartmoor Prison yesterday,but was recaptured about two hours later in a copse about %mile-and-a-half from .the prison gardens, where he had been one of ...

Published: Thursday 29 July 1948
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 63 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CONVICT ILL

... Escaped from Dartmoor Mrs. Ada Amey, wife of Frederick Amey, who (with Michael Gasken, of Birmingham) recently escaped from Dartmoor Prison and whose home is at Edmonton. London, has received a letter from the prison authorities stating that her husband is ...

Published: Friday 09 December 1932
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 169 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

54 TRAPPED IN BRI Vessel Believed Located on

... BRI Vessel Believed Located on DARTMOOR PRISON TO BE CLOSED? Convicts Still in Unruly Mood. SECRET INQUIRY Peril of Attack from Outside. RUMOURS were current in Princetown last night that the convicts in Dartmoor Prison were still in a very unruly frame ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1932
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 352 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

'Moor man dies

... '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. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 August 1956
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 36 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MISSED DURING UPROAR

... servitude and seven years' preventive detention for housebreaking, forgery and other offences. _ When Gasken escaped from Dartmoor Prison with another man in February of last year ids companion was 'recaptured in two days, but it was .flve days before tiasken ...

Published: Wednesday 23 November 1932
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 253 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

VAN DYN'S RELEASE

... Home Secretary's Explanation. NO COMPENSATION. Result of Further Police Inquiries. THE release of Jacob Van Dyn from Dartmoor Prison was again raised in the House of Commons yesterday. It will be remembered that Vin Dyn was convicted at the Old Bailey ...

Published: Thursday 10 December 1931
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 67 | Page: 7 | Tags: none