... reason for his indisposition by stating that he was shot in the th;igh while attempting, with two others, to escape ifront Dartmoor Prison -while undergoing a previous isentence. The prison authorities at once instituted inquiries, which left no doubt that ...

... ESCAPE OF CONVICTS Fitu~l VARTMOOT .An~other desperate attempt to obtain liberty haa been made at the Dartmoor Prison. Two convicts, named Morgan and Britton, whilst working in a field on Tuesday, suddenly rushed towards a walls over- which they vaulted ...

... Ryide Unrited Steam Packet (Company, committed suicide.. The Convict Department have adopted compulsory education at Dartmoor Prison. The cbildren of all the prison officials are compelled to attend school, anl the school pence are deducted from the salaries ...

... Peters. of the county constabulary, deposed -I went to Dartmoor Prison on the 24th of March, and charged the prisoner with murder. Ho never spoke. I then, along'with the principal warder of Dartmoor prison and another, and brought him to Wigan. On the way ...

... soner was then committed to prison as a rogue and vaga- bond for three months, with hard labour. An esoaped convict from Dartmoor prison waS captured on Thureday in last week. He escaped April l1t, 1860, went to America, served as captain of a com- pany of ...

... the body of William Carter, aged 22, the convict who was shot dead -while endea-ouring to escape with two others from Dartmoor Prison on Christmas Eve. Deceased was convicted at the Central Criminal Court, London, last February. for stealing fromn the ...

... want to get there again, Ic( but I may sey I am certain of this, that no man in this parish get can live as I lived in Dartmoor Prison during the last twelve Tu months-reckoning lodging and clothes-upon ten shillings a tht week. tab I could not refrain ...

... OUTBRtEAl OF PRISCN£BS AT DARTuoon.-A dis i turbanoe took place among the prisoners engaged on the a public works of Dartmoor prison on Friday afternoon, r There are a good many convicts now engaged in enclos. r ing the prison ground on the read to Two ...

... period to be once well flogged. AN EscAPED ColvTIC.-John . Cotton pleaded lguilty to a charg of feloniously escapinig iron Dartmoor prison, and being at large before the I expiration of a, period of transportation to which head been ?? Srom inquiries made by ...

... to be 8 once well flogged. e As EsCAPsD CONVICT.-John Cotton pleaded f guilty to a charge of feloniously escaping trom Dartmoor prison, and being, at large before the 0 expiration of a period of transportation to which 5 he had been ?? appeared from inquiries ...

... consultation, returnsed a Verdict of 1Tern. porary inssanity.1 ESCAP OP ADARe aoo CONVICT.-A convict effcie hi esapefro the Dartmoor prisons afew days ago bu wa holypursued over time Moor by the authmo. rite~.T~s fgitvewas ultimately capturda uk fasheiha dsteceof ...