... ® 1806 The foundation stone of P g 8 TODAY’'S BIRTHDAYS Dartmoor prison in Devon was laid. March & g @ William Hurt, actor, 48, left: ® 1819 The famous and exclusive 20 Q Q%é ; :gpike l;/ee, aftor/director,fl; Burlington Arcade opened in London. z W E ...

... MASTER KEY TO PRISON MISSING The master key to cells and buildings at Dartmoor Prison has been lost. The key fitted “quite a number of cells” at the category B jail in Devon, said a prison service spokesman. ...

... gelignite stolen from a Dartmoor prison quarry four days ago. Other detectives toured offices and basements in the area. dil ‘ Gelignite Only four days ago the theft of 41 sticks of geligmte and fifty yards of fuse from Dartmoor Prison quarry was notified ...

... of Plymouth’s J)antomime. “Cinderella,” and the Palace Theatre orchestra, yesterday entertained about 650 convicts in Dartmoor Prison Chapel for about ninety minutes. ; ...

... RECAPTURED A PRISONER who was on the run for a year has been captured. Paul Hillman, 31, failed to return to Dartmoor Prison, Devon, after home leave in June, 1993. He was arrested in Teignmouth, Devon, after a tip-off, and is now back at Dartmoor. ...

... has collected over three hundredweight of stamps for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. The stamps will now go to Dartmoor Prison where they will be Thursday, July 7, 1994 ...

... at footbhall match POLICE: motor and foot patrols intensified their search for Norman Ellis, aged 25, who esca?ed from Dartmoor prison shortly before 9 p.m. last night 4 Ellis, when he lnt awaywas taking part in football Hatch—was wearing prison ue, -~ ...

... way today into how two prisoners were able to cut their way through window bars with an acetylene torch and escape from Dartmoor Prison using a 17ft ladder made in the jail’s workshops. David Meads, 44, serving four years for burglary, hurt an ankle on landing ...

... concentrated on the moorland near Sourton Cross, five miles from Okehampton, in their hunt for two menwho escaped from a Dartmoor prison working-party‘ yesterday. | ; The m~. Trans Bond (29), iserving a life sentence tor‘ murder, and Douglas Jackson (28) ...

... Prison chief's move DARTMOOR prison governor John May was today expected to issue a statement in response to a noconfidence vote by officers at the Jail. The no-confidence motion, it was disclosed yesterday, was passed by a majority of 200. But the officers ...

... ONERHISIDAY ® 1806: The foundation stone of Dartmoor Prison, Princetown, Devon, laid but the building was originally built to house French prisoners of war and became a prison in 1850. @ 1828: Henrik Ibsen, playwright, born in Norway. Works include the ...

... Crash ends Dartmoor escape bid Stolen lorry hits bridge I'IOHN Thomas Halliday and James Healey, who escaped from a Dartmoor Prison working party at noon vesterday, were recaptured early today after nearly. 13 hows’ liberty. Their escape bid ended when ...