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and tone thety&bm SIR BASIL THOMSON, the son of a former Archbishop of York, has been in succession Prime Minister

... SIR BASIL THOMSON, the son of a former Archbishop of York, has been in succession Prime Minister of Tonga, Governor of Dartmoor Prison and Wormwood Scrubbs, Assistant Commissioner London Police, and Director of the Secret Service Branch. He is the author ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1928
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 72 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

SIR BASIL THOMSON, the son of a former Archbishop of York, has been in succession Prime Minister of Tonga, Governor

... SIR BASIL THOMSON, the son of a former Archbishop of York, has been in succession Prime Minister of Tonga, Governor Dartmoor Prison and Wormwood Scrubbs, Assistant Commissioner of London Police, and Director of the Secret Service Branch. He is the author ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1928
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 67 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

THE ESCAPE OF CONVICTS

... THE ESCAPE CONVICTS Frith, one of couple who escaper from Dartmoor Prison on Thursday afternoon, captured midnight at Horrabridge, about four miles from the prison. The convict almost walked into the arms of two of the warders in pursuit of him. and having ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1901
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THURSTON STILL AT LARGE

... THURSTON STILL AT LARGE Stanley Hilton Thurston, who friiade 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 stealing from farms. Police officers ...

Published: Friday 28 March 1941
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE PRISONERS WHO ESCAPED FROM DARTMOOR

... At Devon County Assizes Saturday, before Justice Lawrence. William Walker and Alfred Parish, who recently escaped from Dartmoor Prison, wore charged with burglary and prison-breaking. They pleaded guilty. Application was made on behalf of the Treasury that ...

Published: Monday 26 October 1908
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MURDEROUS BLOW AT A WARDER

... MURDEROUS BLOW AT A WARDER serious attack von made » Tuesday Assistant Warder Wilmhuret- Bit Dartmoor Prison convict named Gurney. While working with a gang Gurnev suddenly ftepped out of the ranks struck Wiimhurst, who wae charge, terriffic blow behind ...

Published: Thursday 12 November 1903
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 71 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BABEL OF NOISE AT DARTMOOR

... BABEL OF NOISE AT DARTMOOR. Convicts Repeat Programme of Singing and Shouting. inquiry at Dartmoor Prison yesterday a Press representative was informed that there is no truth in the statement that party of convicts from Dartmoor were taken, to London ...

Published: Monday 22 February 1932
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 354 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ALL QUIET AT DARTMOOR

... ALL QUIET AT DARTMOOR CJLNDAY services were held at Dartmoor Prison yesterday with one armed prison officer guarding every two convicts in the chapel. There were no reports of any recurrence of Tuesday's disturbance, when 150 out of the 230 men demonstrated ...

Published: Monday 29 December 1947
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 92 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PENAL SYSTEM REFORM

... take some years, said Sir William Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary when interviewed yesterday regarding report that Dartmoor prison was to be closed, and that the authorities were examining a suggestion that convicts of the type hitherto sent to Dartmoor ...

Published: Monday 28 November 1927
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Convicts' Bid for Freedom

... Convicts' Bid for Freedom William Smith (28) and George Darry (30), two Londoners who are serving terms in Dartmoor Prison, had two hours of liberty yesterday. At the end of their afternoon's work they vanished from the prison—the seventh escape made ...

Published: Wednesday 13 March 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR'S NEW ROLE

... DARTMOOR'S NEW ROLE. BORSTAL INMATES INSTEAD OF CONVICTS. Dartmoor Prison is about undergo another change of character. Originally built for French and American prisoners of war, and then for many years one of the terrors of con' victed felons, the frowning ...

Published: Monday 26 July 1920
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

I.R.A. MEN ATTACKED IN PRISON

... I.R.A. MEN ATTACKED IN PRISON A number of I.R.A. prisoners are in Dartmoor prison hospital with injuries they received on the exercise square in a fight with other convicts. It is understood that the battle ' began after a reference to the Coventry ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1939
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 4 | Tags: none