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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

OUTRAGES IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... OUTRAGES IN DARTMOOR PRISON. The atrocious assaults committed by convicts on the warders and other officers in Dartmoor Prison, which were recorded some time since in our columns, have j been more than paralleled by those which have recently taken place ...

Published: Friday 19 September 1862
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1170 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BREAKING INTO DARTMOOR PRISON

... BREAKING INTO DARTMOOR PRISON. Joseph Denny, a coloured man, was charged before the Tavistock magistrates yesterday with breaking into Dartmoor convict prison at midnight on Saturday last for an unlawful purpose, with the intentiou firing the building ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1890
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION AT DARTMOOR PRISON. 4 shocking explosion occurred whilst blasting in connection with some quarrying operations was ia pro- gress at Dartmoor Prison yesterday. A hundred convicts had been told off to blast, under the superin- tendencé ...

Published: Tuesday 13 September 1887
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 212 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH. THE VICISSITUDES OF DARTMOOR PRISON

... THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH. THE VICISSITUDES OF DARTMOOR PRISON. ANOTHER chapter in the story of Dartmoor Prison is to be opened, for having been built little more than a century ago to accommodate the men ’ho had been taken prisoner while fighting for their ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1917
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1174 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE CLAIMANT INTERVIEWED AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... CLAIMANT INTERVIEWED AT DARTMOOR PRISON. [special telegram.] Plymouth, Friday Evening.—Mr. Guildford Onslow. Mr. John Helsby, and the Plymouth Tichborne Release Committee had twenty minutes interview with tho Claimant to-day Dartmoor Prison, by order of tbe ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1876
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

REMARKABLE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON

... REMARKABLE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON. [special telegram.] Plymouth, Tuesday Evening.—A convict at Dartmoor Prison was this morning discovered to be attempting to escape by digging his way through the thick wall of the prison. He must have ...

Published: Wednesday 20 December 1876
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

REMARKABLE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON

... REMARKABLE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON. Plymouth, Tuesday Evening.—A convict at Dartmoor Prison was this morning discovered to be attempting to escape by digging his way through the thick wall of the prison. He must have been engaged in the ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1876
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

The Court of Appeal yesterday, in the case At Dartmoor Prison on Monday night an [ of Smithies v. the

... The Court of Appeal yesterday, in the case At Dartmoor Prison on Monday night an [ of Smithies v. the National Association of Operative assistant warder, looking through the peephole of a Plasterers and others, decided that the rades Uisnell was surprised ...

Published: Wednesday 28 October 1908
Newspaper: Sheffield Evening Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 174 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OUTSIDE PRISON. DARTMOOR CONVICTS AT WORK, A party of convicts from Dartmoor Prison, equipped with spades, ..

... OUTSIDE PRISON. DARTMOOR CONVICTS AT WORK, A party of convicts from Dartmoor Prison, equipped with spades, picks and shovels, were yesterday hard at work clearing the ice-bound gutters in the town under the supervision of armed warders. On the prison ...

Published: Monday 15 February 1932
Newspaper: Sheffield Independent
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: 1 | Tags: none