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ELECTION INTELLIGENCE

... ATTEMPTED ESCAPE OF A CONVICT. A oonsict who wu engaged in drawing stones on the Toristook Road, shout a quarter of mile from Dartmoor Prison, made an attempt to escape on S iturday in broad daylight. When performing his last journey before dinner, he unyoked ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1884
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 324 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

GENERAL The schooner Jane and Catherine was towed into Harwich on Friday, laving been boarded by the mustguard, ..

... returned a verdict of death from starvation and destitution. Merry! re DARTMOOR PRISON. On Friday afternoon last week a cerions nuriny occurred among the convicts in Dartmoor Prison at Princetown, Devon. A principal warder, named Westlake, on visiting ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1880
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1856 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE WEEK.. On Monday forenoon fire broke out in the Northesk Arms Hotel at Attchmithie, when, owing to the wane

... other officers are among the drowned. On Monday a convict named Hanley, who was working; at the reclaimed ground near Dartmoor Prison, made a ferocious attack upon an officer. He dealt the unfortunate man a violent blow upon the head with a crowbar, which ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1884
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1016 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Take the woo to the may; I'll be time directly. Now, thee, lost tell me who employed yea to steal

... and that if he attempted to rotor by force he we, to be taken into eestody. T 1 '. lairs found this the Governor of Dartmoor Prison hail written to the Hone °thee a fell account of Jack Slocum's Dick's statement, ant the ductor's opieion that the health ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1886
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1532 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DUNDEE CIRCUIT COURT. The Spring Circuit Court of Justicialry was opened in Dundee on Wednesday— the presidin ..

... thus showing that he had behaved well during his prison life. He also states that he received 15s from the Oovenor of Dartmoor prison in payment of work done in the prison, and he received an order for another 15s. He was asked to join the Prison Aid Society ...

Published: Saturday 05 April 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1833 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

A oelf-recording electric log bu been tried at Portsmouth. A number of negroes in the rice plantations opposite ..

... there is not to be found at the present moment a veritable Sir Roger Tichborne. As to the original old claimant in Dartmoor Prison, his nose appears to be put thoroughly out of joint by h'rs new rivals. And, what is still more distressing, duplicates ...

Published: Saturday 08 October 1881
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1860 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

neglected, and it gradual' sank and died. Another Infant was procured from ea abandoned mother a lodgingdienee ..

... After many inquiries he wee successful in !lading a small vessel loaded with granite front the Government mmeries at Dartmoor Prison, bound for Chatham Dockyard, and to sail that night. The ml,tiin agreed to take Charlie and his wife and the child to ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1885
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1740 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE STATE OF IRELAND

... hed stranger in the Speaker's Gallery. It is intended that the prisoner shall serve the remainder of his eentenceat Dartmoor Prison. was taken from Milibenk Jail on Friday night under a strong escort of police to Paddington Station, and in their custody ...

Published: Saturday 12 February 1881
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2142 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SKETCHES OF VAGRANT LIFE

... knew the men well enough. One used to keep a lodginghouse in Manchester some years before; the other was a discharged Dartmoor prison officer, who got the sack for dishonesty, and was known there as a regular tyrant, and nicknamed Paddy the Nose, because ...

Published: Saturday 12 March 1881
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3112 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

RIOTOUS ELECTION MEETING

... snoring —and he got safely into bed again. bad he done! \Vhatever it was, Dick could ( This startling incident teak tame at Dartmoor Prison. It was mention•! by ths author of Tears' Penal and leas referred t by him in his evidence before the Penal Servitude ...

Published: Saturday 21 November 1885
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3504 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CHAPTEE Xlll

... at trenching and draining the groan 1, preparatory to its being cultivated. A. sent* of my readers will probably know, Dartmoor prison was built during the great war between England and France, and was intended as a place of confinement for French prisoners ...

Published: Saturday 18 February 1882
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4917 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE WEEKLY NEWS, SA.TURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1479

... ever known to be. And yes we talk about the encouragement of native talent. Eight convicts escaped on Tuesday a riot , Dartmoor Prison. Sic were captnrel, one seriously wounded by a shot. The Australian 'Tar states that Sarah Cale paramour of the noter ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly News
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6502 | Page: 6 | Tags: none