... Dartmoor Prison blaze A HOME Office spokesman said that fire in the mailbag shop in Dartmoor Prison today caused severe damage to part of roof. No one was injured. “The workshop was empty at the time. The fire was brought under control in about 45 minutes ...

... HOT STU E AS REFEREES! i SEVENTEEN out of 18 ! men in Dartmoor : Prison passed an examina- 3 tion for certificates as foot- 3 ball referees. Four ob-: tained 100 per cent. and two 99 per cent. The one : who failed had 72 per cent, —three marks below the ...

... PRISONERS at Dartmoor prison started a stink when they asked for cans of spray to make their cells smell sweeter . . . until warders realised they wanted them to cover up the smell of them smoking ...

... I.\'QUIRIFB were continuing today into the incident at Dartmoor Prison vesterday when a prisoner was Kkilled. The prisoner, Harold Dennis Thirkettle, 37, f Emily’s Terrace, Hull Yorks.), died after a knife fight in the prison during a {iim show, . A ...

... officer jailed JAMES Edward Adkins, 32- year-old former Dartmoor Prison officer, was sent to prison for four months by Tavistock Magistrates today. He pleaded guilty to conveying a letter from Dartmoor Prison, taking whisky and tobacco to a prisoner, and stealing ...

... Prison assaults: urge ‘get tough’ A PETITION from Dartmoor Prison officers’ wives complaining of “feeble action” by the Home Secretary (Mr. Henry Brooke) over assaults by prisoners was received at the Home Office today. During the last six months, 10 ...

... Road blocks for ‘Scarface’ ROAD blocks were still in ! operation on all roads from Dartmoor Prison today as police with tracker dogs kept up their search for Henry Arthur (“Scarface”) Brett (32), who escaped from a working party outside the. prison on ...

... Jail storm statement? DARTMOOR Prison governor John May was today expected to issue a statement in response to a no-confidence vote by officers at the jail. The no-confidence motion, it was disclosed yesterday, was passed by a m.'gority of 200. ut the ...

... PRISON OFFICER CHARGED A DARTMOOR prison ’ officer, Principal Officer Robert Linn Adair, 41, elected to go for trial at Tavistock vesterday on charges of lmaliciously wounding a prisoner, Raymond Ernest Charles Matthews, and assaulting him. Adair, who ...

... today denied Earlier this week an official reports that officers checking | statement disclosed that two buildings at Dartmoor prison | prisoners in cells had been had discovered the start of | found apparently trying to an escape tunnel in the mail | ...

... George Carey, Woodville Avenue, Princetown, Devon, was at Tavistock today fined a total of £3O for smuggling |Lobacco into Dartmoor prison for the use of a prisoner ‘there. He was fined £7 10s. on each of the charges, one in respect of 10 ounces of tobacco ...

... lignite Only four days ago the theft of 41 sticks of gelx*nile and fifty yards of fuse from Dartmoor Prison quarry was notified to police forces throughout the country. The thief or thieves forced open a locked stone storehouse and a gate in a surrounding ...