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ATTACK ON A CONVICT WARDER

... ATTACK ON A CONVICT WARDER. A cosvict named Hauley, engaged with other con. in reclaiming land near Dartmoor Prison, made murderous attack yesterday upon warder, by striking him across the head with a crowbar. The other convlcta rescued the officer. ...

Published: Tuesday 23 September 1884
Newspaper: Banffshire Journal
County: Banffshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 40 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ESCAPE OF A CONVICT

... ESCAPE A CONVICT. CONVICT named Morgan on Sunday night severed the bars of a window in bis cell at Dartmoor Prison, and dropped to the yard, a distance of twelve feet. got clear away. Diligent search being made lor Morgan, who escaped from Parkbar*! two ...

Published: Tuesday 04 January 1898
Newspaper: Banffshire Journal
County: Banffshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 60 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

AN UNPUBLISHED POEM BY ROBERT BURNS

... Kinley. was executed by Tuesday. up Convicts—Seven convicts made a de«perate dash for liberty on Friday from farm near Dartmoor Prison. Six were >hot, none seriously, and r.v-»pturrd. hut one made good fm esc ape. He however, recaptured. The Rev. Charles ...

Published: Tuesday 05 November 1901
Newspaper: Banffshire Journal
County: Banffshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 470 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SNATCHED FROM THE GALLOWS

... information about the spawning of trout which, as a fisherman, I had naturally remembered. Years afterwards, a convict at Dartmoor prison ou his death-bed confessed that he alone was guilty of the murder for which my companion in the porch so narrowly escaped ...

Published: Thursday 09 January 1902
Newspaper: Banffshire Advertiser
County: Banffshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1142 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

PETERHEAD SHIPPING LIST

... his scat in Devonshire. Mr has departed for Stoke Park. Sir George Grey has returned to London from visit of inspection Dartmoor Prison. Ixird (jranville has gone into Shropshire, No further meetings of the Cabinet arc expected for some lime; hut very aom ...

Published: Tuesday 23 December 1851
Newspaper: Banffshire Journal
County: Banffshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1256 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ABERDEEN

... regarding wagec heard the Mercantile Marine Office might conceded. A convict named Wil iam Searle, 27 vear*ohl. from Dartmoor prison yestenlay afternoon. He was with the farm party, and «ro» away unnoticed. A doive fog prevadccl The c«onvict wa> seen ...

Published: Tuesday 29 May 1906
Newspaper: Banffshire Journal
County: Banffshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1200 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

STORY OF THE CRIME

... from Pentonville Prison on Thursday on ticket-of-leave, after serving twenty years imprisonment. He was removed from Dartmoor Prison to London, and was conveyed to Pentonville pending his release. The crime for which he was convicted was that of starving ...

Published: Thursday 23 September 1897
Newspaper: Banffshire Advertiser
County: Banffshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1907 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FORTY YEARS AT LOSSIEMOUTH. RAILWAY PORTER RETIRES

... last quarter's salary. I shall, however, be independent of you in future, as I go to take the position of chaplain in Dartmoor Prison. He then calmly gave out hie text, I go to prepare a place for Sandy--Weel, I wid say that parson wis maybe a thochtie ...

Published: Thursday 24 May 1917
Newspaper: Banffshire Advertiser
County: Banffshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2761 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EPITOME OF NEWS

... The motion was from north-east to south-west. A CONVICT NAMED LUTON has just made a desperate attempt to escape from Dartmoor Prison. Ile had te'n shut in his cell for the night, apparently secure, there bring two feet of granite masonry between him and ...

Published: Thursday 15 December 1881
Newspaper: Banffshire Advertiser
County: Banffshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2861 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

the provisions of the English measure. By rabse*- tion (IL) of Claaae 2, holdings now held by tenant from year

... title “Selections from Polybius,” and by a Cicero. Mr SUaehaa-Davidson is LL.D. of Glasgow. Two ooDvkta who escaped fiom Dartmoor prison were captured within four miles from ths prison, were a miserablo plight. They bad Buttered severely from want of food ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1907
Newspaper: Banffshire Journal
County: Banffshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3599 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... trart Itapaafd ia fctaa. hat. the taft once p ucked. hr Uke* up the march —Another article deals with the lilt led in Dartmoor Prison American seamen who were captured by the English during the war of lOt; while another Brigadier-General Geo. B. Davie* ...

Published: Tuesday 06 September 1904
Newspaper: Banffshire Journal
County: Banffshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 10524 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Thp. Snt.T.vN’a Visit Franck and England.— Letter* from Constantinople inform us that the BiiUnn'a departure ..

... cells, they left on Friday morning by the 3TO mail, in charge of two keepers, and reached Plymouth at 5.25 their way Dartmoor prisons. At neither station was there any crowd assembled, the matter was evidently little known. A Good Littt.e Bill.—The Lord ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1867
Newspaper: Banffshire Journal
County: Banffshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1976 | Page: 7 | Tags: none