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DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. A contemporary relstes the following :—We were going leisurely up the road, when I saw a mu in a dark coat standing on the bank with a gun in the hollow of his arm, looking at something beneath him in the field, and hating the appearance ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1869
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

OUTBREAK AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... OUTBREAK AT DARTMOOR PRISON. SERIOUR MITATION MA . ..---- Ti transpired on Saturday that a few days ago, at , Prineetown Prison. Dartmoor, a very senous sites. I lion was saved by the alert and prompt action of • warder. A gang of convict. were ...

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. The report of the directors of convict prisons has jus' 1 issued. The Governor of the Dartmoor Prison reports that on the Ist January, IS* 14, there were 71'- prisoners under his care, and that received ■ >1S during the year, This total ...

Published: Thursday 17 August 1865
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 390 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. Yr. Basil Thomson. formerly Governor of Dartmoor Prison. in a book upon the early his. tory of that place. says in the early part et the 19th century IVith some 5.000 inmates, the prison of Dartmoor presented curious and remarkable social ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1908
Newspaper: Coventry Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 388 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LIPS IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... LIPS IN DARTMOOR PRISON. Dartmoor Prison itself was originally built at the beginning of last century to accommodate our French prisoners of war who were rotting in the insanitary hulks at Plymouth, awaiting the final crushing of, Napoleon. The little ...

Published: Friday 21 March 1902
Newspaper: Nuneaton Observer
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1118 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON SCENE

... DARTMOOR PRISON SCENE Fight in a Cell ['MED PRISONER'S PROTEST AS TO TREATMENT ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1932
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 13 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON ESCAPE PLOT IS

... DARTMOOR PRISON ESCAPE PLOT IS Man had a Miners 'fit and well' after 125 hours down pit THE two miners staging a stay down protest at Coventry Colliery, Keresley, were visited overnight by the chairman of the Coventry branch of the National Union ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1964
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 408 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON TO BE USED

... DARTMOOR PRISON TO BE USED Dartmoor Prison is to be used for Borstal purposes owing to the large increase in the number of youths committed by the courts to Borstal institutions and the problem of accommodation. A Home Office statement says: “The recent ...

Published: Thursday 27 September 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 361 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON ESCAPE PLOT IS

... DARTMOOR PRISON ESCAPE PLOT IS Man had a Miners 'fit and well' after 125 hours down pit THE two miners staging a stay down protest at -I Coventry Colliery, Keresley, were visited overnight by the chairman of the Coventry branch of the National Union ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1964
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 415 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION AT DARTMOOR PRISON. A SHOCKING explosion occurred whilst blasting in connection with quarrying operations was in progress at Dartmoor Prison on Monday. A huntired convicts had been told off to blast, under the superintendence of l'rincipal ...

Published: Thursday 15 September 1887
Newspaper: Warwickshire Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 277 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ATTEMPTED ESCAPE PROM DARTMOOR -PRISON

... ATTEMPTED ESCAPE PROM DARTMOOR - PRISON. Two eonvicts, nam;d — irl - k - e v en and Wilson, made an attempt to Dertmoor Prison, re. away. • thick mist hung over the moor during morning, and In the afternoon this had dem.- loped Into am alnioet penetrable ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1887
Newspaper: Birmingham & Aston Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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