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ESCAPE PLOT FOILED AT DARTMOOR PRISON Man had a compass

... ESCAPE PLOT FOILED AT DARTMOOR PRISON Man had a compass ADARTMOOR escape plot has been foiled with the help of mine detectors borrowed from the Army. A search with the detectors at the prison, after reports of an escape being planned, disclosed two metal ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1964
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 404 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

ESCAPE PLOT FOILED AT DARTMOOR PRISON Man had a compass

... ESCAPE PLOT FOILED AT DARTMOOR PRISON Man had a compass ADARTMOOR escape plot has been foiled with the help of mine detectors borrowed from the Army. A search with the detectors at the prison, after reports of an escape being planned, disclosed two metal ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1964
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 574 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Anew Crisis Company director just glides into Dartmoor Prison

... Anew Crisis Company director just glides into Dartmoor Prison Mr. Frank Pozerskis, a 41-year-old company director, of Kettering Road, Isham, Northants, crash-landed a glider inside the walls of Dartmoor Prison. This was the latest mishap in his attempt to ...

Published: Thursday 25 April 1968
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 685 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

Blaze in Laundry at Dartmoor SECOND WITHIN A WEEK AFIRE was discovered in the laundry at Dartmoor Prison early ..

... Blaze in Laundry at Dartmoor SECOND WITHIN A WEEK AFIRE was discovered in the laundry at Dartmoor Prison early to-day. It was under control in half-an-hour. There were no prisoners in the laundry at the time. Blight damage was done to , the reef. and ...

Published: Wednesday 10 December 1952
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 390 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Dartmoor prison officers faced charges at Tavistock Magistrates Court to-day of conspiring together to effect ..

... Dartmoor prison officers faced charges at Tavistock Magistrates Court to-day of conspiring together to effect the escape of one of the prisoners Cyril Michael Bond on November 18. The officers are Leslie Walton, Abbott (40) and Stanley Alfred Clarry (34) ...

Published: Wednesday 14 December 1955
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 575 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Dartmoor 'not to stay open indefinitely' DARTMOOR PRISON is not to stay open indefinitely, Mr. Roy Jenkins, ..

... Dartmoor 'not to stay open indefinitely' DARTMOOR PRISON is not to stay open indefinitely, Mr. Roy Jenkins, Home Secretary, said when he visited the prison today. We will give the obligatory three years' notice but we don't know yet what will be done ...

Published: Saturday 14 May 1966
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 119 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

MONDAY MAY 24 1999 1809 Dartmoor Prison was opened to house French prisoners of war From 1850 it was used

... MONDAY MAY 24 1999 1809 Dartmoor Prison was opened to house French prisoners of war From 1850 it was used for convicts 1862 London’s Westminster Bridge opened 1895 The first stage knighthood was conferred on Sir Henry Irving 1916 Conscription began in ...

Published: Monday 24 May 1999
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 899 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Snow Falls on Dartmoor T WO inches of snow fell at Princetown, Devon, to-day. Outdoor work at Dartmoor Prison was

... Snow Falls on Dartmoor T WO inches of snow fell at Princetown, Devon, to-day. Outdoor work at Dartmoor Prison was restricted. Temperatures fell sharply over most of Britain last night. Lowtat recorded was 33 degrees at Cranfiekl. At 9 a.m. to-day the ...

Published: Monday 16 January 1950
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 206 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Two in escape from Dartmoor / WO prisoners escaped from Dartmoor Prison quarry to Williams (3t. who was serving a

... Two in escape from Dartmoor / WO prisoners escaped from Dartmoor Prison quarry to Williams (3t. who was serving a total of nine years, and John Barker (35). who was serving eight years. The men had used no violence in the escape. said police spokesman ...

Published: Monday 04 October 1965
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 52 | Page: 41 | Tags: none