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... part of next week, when Carl Brisson in “ The American Prisoner ”is the principal attraction. —The story centres round Dartmoor prison during the Napoleonic wa-~s, when Americans were imprisoned for smuggling arms to the French. The speaking 18 remarkably ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1930
Newspaper: Hamilton Advertiser
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

TAKEN WITHOUT FIGHT

... Troubridge was one of the leaders in charge of the landings in Sicily. Dartmoor Convict Escapes \ GOOD conduct convict at Dartmoor prison, described Neil , Gray«>n, who had served 16 months of a seven years sentence for house-breaking and larceny, escaped ...

Published: Monday 19 June 1944
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 176 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PILOT’S £5400 FOR FATHER IjTLVIXCi Officer Ralph Hope, K.A.F., of Russell Road, Moseley. ruling bast, nephew of ..

... 31-year-old convict, who was at large for six months after escaping from Lewes Gaol in 1939, made a daring getaway from Dartmoor Prison yesterday morning. An intensive search over the moors by police and warders on horseback wa s .immediately organised. ...

Published: Wednesday 26 March 1941
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 180 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Over The Wall!

... LORD HUNT, the man who conquered Mount Everest, has published his autobiography. He tells how he once scaled the wall of Dartmoor Prison! He did it in 1967, when he was visiting the prison as chairman of the Parole Board. He used his mountaineering expertise ...

Published: Sunday 29 October 1978
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

EVENING TIMES

... lit= of as 64 share- for the half- , was passed _ 30n/g BRAT, tlisconeint, who, last week, during a fog, escaped from a Dartmoor prison at Princesown, eras recaptured yesterday afternoon on • Wen near Moreton, Hampstead. Bray, who still Wore his convict ...

Published: Tuesday 29 July 1884
Newspaper: Glasgow Evening Times
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 240 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LON DON POLICE

... Home Secretary, to weaver the charge of having infringed one of the conditions of Her Majesty's leave of license from Dartmoor prison. This was the first case under the new act of last ression authorising the liberation of conv:cts as a reward of goad ...

Published: Monday 01 May 1854
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1133 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WAwi Spy-Catcher’s Praise REMARKABLE tribute to a Germ f' Basil Thomson’s under the title The Scene Chang nt ..

... a remarkable career. Son of the Archbishop of York, he became Prime Minister of a South Seas kingdom, was Governor of Dartmoor Prison, a mutiny-breaker at Wormwood Scrubs before becoming head of the C.I.D. He tells the story of his retirement for the first ...

Published: Monday 15 May 1939
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 231 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Torch

... —might see Valona rapidly become a Dunkirk. Thurston Still Free SJTANLEY HILTON THURSTON, who made a daring break from Dartmoor Prison on Tuesday morning, had not been captured last night. It is thought that he may have been able to satisfy his hunger by ...

Published: Friday 28 March 1941
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 240 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

U.S. BOMBS WORRY LAVAL

... much in their minds at this moment. Convict Still At Liberty Michael Cunningham. 34. who escaped three days ago from Dartmoor prison, was still at large late last night. It is believed that he is hiding during the daytime and moving about at night. Six ...

Published: Tuesday 08 September 1942
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 215 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

(Sad ilSecoad Akiiiiits.)

... something better than floating tube and fial-b.4totiAd barges. Fran ADIS AT DARTMOOR PRIBOIL—One of the convicts confined in Dartmoor Prison, named John has been committed for trial at the Devon County Gaol, charged with a murderous assault on one the warden ...

Published: Monday 18 August 1856
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 218 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BEAR , ■■ . ■

... nation tPy Government and bacK The Storting unanim 01 the speeches. DARTMOOR CAUGHT NINE HOUR’.: party of prisoners & $ Dartmoor prison, George Swift —aged . _ til n . » hungry, made no resi i walked into the arm cordon at 1 a.m. to-d ftJ Still in his prison ...

Published: Tuesday 20 February 1940
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 234 | Page: 20 | Tags: none