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WARDERS FORCED TO USE RIFLES

... WARDERS FORCED TO USE RIFLES. Dartmoor Prison was set on fire on Sunday morning when some of the convicts mutinied, attacked their warders, and raided the offices of the Governor, Mr N. S. Roberts. Warders were forced to use their guns. As a result the ...

Published: Friday 29 January 1932
Newspaper: Linlithgowshire Gazette
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 72 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

INDIGESTION

... During • heavy fog on Friday afternoon • convict named Wilson, thirty-five years of age. succeeded in escaping from Dartmoor Prison. Wilson was working with • gang of about twenty convicts in the public road outside the prison, when he suddenly made ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1908
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 405 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CONVICTS IN TEARS

... CONVICTS IN TEARS. General Booth on Thursday addressed en audience of convicts in the prison chapel Dartmoor Prison, l'rincetown. Although attendance at the service was quite optional, there were nearly • thousand convicts present, filling the grim-looking ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1906
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 243 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

T- --~. END OF MAN HUNT. CONVICTS MI-CAPTURED. Alfred Parish and William Walker, the two convicts who escaped ..

... T- --~. END OF MAN HUNT. CONVICTS MI-CAPTURED. Alfred Parish and William Walker, the two convicts who escaped from Dartmoor Prison. have been re-eapturod. Parish was walking along the main road from Okshanipton to Raster. when be was seen by two constables ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1908
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 264 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR REVELATIONS

... DARTMOOR REVELATIONS “When I was at Dartmoor Prison the other day,” went on Sir Samuel, “I was much Interested in the records of the convicts, many of whom had a dozen or more previous convictions In their history, and I noticed case after case of men ...

Published: Friday 29 October 1937
Newspaper: Linlithgowshire Gazette
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 606 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Tubs and Sweet Peab

... Premdepte Boca. Alfred Hewlett, who was sentenced in 1881 penal servitude for life for wounding, has been released from Dartmoor Prison. The Wellington monument in Phoenix Park, Dublin, which is 25ft. higher than Nelson Column, being spring-cleaned by Mr ...

Published: Friday 05 March 1909
Newspaper: Linlithgowshire Gazette
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 602 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FLU

... FLU. DARTMOOR PRISON MUTINY. Part of Buildings Burned Down by Convicts. made it undesirable that the irrevocable penalty should be inflicted. PRISON BATTLE. Vivid descriptions of the scenes inside prison were given by eye-witnesses:— Mr C. Webb, ’bus ...

Published: Friday 29 January 1932
Newspaper: Linlithgowshire Gazette
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1279 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CURRIES

... patron of tho Men’s Help Society, and has sent a donation of £lO 10s. to the funds. Goodwin, the convict who escaped from Dartmoor Prison, is still in the Infirmary, and the prison authorities are concerned as the state his health. Between 30 and 40 residents ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1897
Newspaper: Linlithgowshire Gazette
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 888 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BBC1 600 CEEFAX AM News sport weather travel 710 THE RACOONS Cartoon 735 THE PINK PANTHER SHOW 750 BUGS BUNNY’S

... winter the first spring lambs are born The tourist trade is long dead but one place remains busy whatever the season Dartmoor Prison 300 THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY Concluding the TV version of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s landmark ...

Published: Friday 01 January 1988
Newspaper: West Lothian Courier
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1102 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

LITERATURE

... Under the high sounding title of His Majesty's Unwilling Guests, a special account is given of a convict's life at Dartmoor prison. - The lady . smoker, Artists in rags, Workers in Mosaic, and The steeplejack make instructive reading, while numerous ...

Published: Friday 11 October 1901
Newspaper: West Lothian Courier
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1258 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SCOTTISH CUP-SEMI.PINAL

... first talking picture in which du Meunier has sppeared and is the first pies ure in which shots have been taken inside Dartmoor Prison. It has a east which is literally studded with well-known names The star himself, Edna Beat, Madeleine Carroll and Mabel ...

Published: Friday 03 July 1931
Newspaper: West Lothian Courier
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1160 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... death sentence for the Clapham Common murder was commuted to penal servitude for life. will shortly be re- I !nosed from Dartmoor Prison to Parkhurst. He is still confined in a padded cell. An exhibition of road materials, appliance*, and machinery used for ...

Published: Friday 29 November 1912
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1365 | Page: 6 | Tags: none