DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. RUMOURS OF ATTEMPT AT OUTBREAK. Rumours were current at Princetown last week that the convicts in the Dartmoor Prison would make a determined attempt to break out during service on Sunday. It aas not possible to trace the origin of the ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1899
Newspaper: Chard and Ilminster News
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 278 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON Mr. Alderman Wood moved. That be an insfrurtion the Committee appointed to examine into the state of New. gale, &c. to impure also into the stale of Dartmoor Prison, and report whether it fit to receive convicts.—Agreed to. ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1818
Newspaper: Globe
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 40 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. A general view of the prison. c * '• « s •x,- , » « ,r.' ' * i-j' ■ . •' ’■ , .. ■ ~' ■•• ■•■- •. ■ - _ • ■ . __ • ■ • _ .‘., ■ , .•• _• _ k ...

Published: Monday 25 January 1932
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 51 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON Sir John Simon Corrects Exaggerated Reports In the House of Commons, Westminster, yesterday. Mr. Thorne (Lab., Plajstow) asked the Home Secretary for information in connection with recent trouble at Dartmoor Prison. Sir John said he was ...

Published: Tuesday 20 April 1937
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 364 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. It is understood, says the Exchange Telegraph Company, that Captain Johnstone, formerly deputygovernor of Dartmoor Prison, will be the new governor, though the appointment has not yet been officially announced. ...

Published: Monday 22 February 1892
Newspaper: Northern Guardian (Hartlepool)
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 32 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. ANOTHER SAVAGE ATTACK BY A CONVICT. A warder was savagely attacked by a con• Tics on Monday afternoon, and was so seriously injured that he is considered by the medical officer of the prison to be in a very critical condition. The officials ...

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. Mr. Basil Thomson, formerly Governor of Dartmoor Prison , expresses some natural surprise that it should have been left till now to write the first connected history of the most famous prison in England. There was plenty of material for ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1907
Newspaper: Westminster Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1406 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. To tots Editor.— I shall feel obliged if you will allow me to correct the report, which appeared in your paper of Saturday last, of an outbreak at Dartmoor Convtet Prison on the Sunday before Christmas day. In the present state of public ...

Published: Friday 09 January 1863
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 480 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. The following interesting account of the Government Prison at Dartmoor is from the pen an Ayrshire gentleman;— “The foundation stone of Dartmoor Prison was laid in 1806, and the erection has coat 127.000. The principal gateway is on the ...

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. HOME SECRETARY DKSCItIRES REPORT IMAGINATION. statement yesterday referring newspaper report that Prineetoun Prison, Dartmoor, is Is- Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary. said :•—- am considering the whole future of the existing ...

Published: Monday 28 November 1927
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 92 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON,

... DARTMOOR PRISON, [Azx Rmexvs Xasxavaw.j WILLIAM CROSSING (Author of “ Gems in a Granite Setting,” * Amid Devonia’s Alps,” etc.). ...

Published: Thursday 06 August 1908
Newspaper: Devizes and Wilts Advertiser
County: Wiltshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 20 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. A contemporary relates the following :—We going leisurely up the road, when I paw • mad in • dark coat standing on the bank with a gun in the hollow of his arm, looking at something beneath Mtn in the field, and haiing the appearance ...