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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

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

LINLITHGOW SHIRK UAZKTTK. FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1902. ATHLETIC NOTES

... example. England has 27 railway tunnels of a mile or more in length. A Convict’s Fishpond.—The fishpond is situated in Dartmoor Prison, the base of one of the deepest cuttings the quarries, with rugged, almost perpendicular wall of brown stone rising sheer ...

Published: Friday 07 March 1902
Newspaper: Linlithgowshire Gazette
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1228 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A NICE QUIET DAY

... prison without any further resistance. Captain Harris, inspector of prisons, and Major Clayton, one of the directors of Dartmoor Prison, were the time holding an inquiry into the question of the alleged insufficiency of the staff. Plague of Rats New York ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1899
Newspaper: Linlithgowshire Gazette
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2989 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HEWS OP THE WEEK

... construction is to made to the Secretary for Scotland. On Sunday a succession of attacks were made by convicts on warders in Dartmoor Prison * Two warders were knocked down and savagely kicked, and everything handy in the shape of missiles was thrown at them ...

Published: Friday 10 January 1908
Newspaper: Linlithgowshire Gazette
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3368 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ADDRESS BY NEW PRESIDENT

... DARTMOOR SHADOWS. Ex-Convict’s Fight lor Rehabilitation. Sunday new series of the intensely fnieresting articles on Dartmoor Prison by the famous “Jock” of Dartmoor will commence in the News of the World.” The millions “ News of the World ” readers who ...

Published: Friday 29 June 1934
Newspaper: Linlithgowshire Gazette
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3475 | Page: 6 | Tags: none