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DARTMOOR PRISON ESCAPES

... DARTMOOR PRISON ESCAPES Convicts Get Away Under Cover of Mist Two or three convicts are reported to have escaped fro niDartmoor Prison this afternoon during a heavy mist. The prison syren—the signal that a prisoner has escaped—was sounded, and warders ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1932
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 52 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE MUTINY AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... THE MUTINY AT DARTMOOR PRISON took place yesterday. HARRIERS' RACE AT KIRKCALDY 4 4||HHMHHMB||lfl|i( ►»> jP>^liP» ...

Published: Monday 25 January 1932
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 39 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TO ABOLISH DARTMOOR PRISON

... TO ABOLISH DARTMOOR PRISON. The policy prisous, which has been steadily kept in view sinoe the whole of th*-*e institution!* were placed under the H jum Office, i«, aays London correspondent, likt-ly t>) result the abolition very old and couvict esta ...

Published: Thursday 23 July 1891
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FIGHT IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... FIGHT DARTMOOR PRISON. A CONVICT KILLED. A parti- IS convicts were esterday employed in connection wit'i the bui'dings at Dartmoor prison raising sand for building purposes. They were under the charge of Warders Kelly and Code and two civil gua ds. One ...

Published: Thursday 09 November 1882
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 182 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE REVOLT AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... THE REVOLT DARTMOOR PRISON. The inquest upon the body of the convict Thomas lie van, who was shot by the warders at Dartmoor on Friday last, he was attempting to escape after inciting to rebellion, was resumed yesterday. A verdict of justifiable homicide ...

Published: Friday 19 November 1880
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON

... THE ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON. At Ashburton, Devonshire, on Friday, John Bray, the convict whose extraordinary escapades after getting away from Dartmoor Prison during a fog caused great excitement in the neighbourhood a few weeks since, was charged ...

Published: Monday 18 August 1884
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON

... ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON. a. Plymouth correspondent telegraphs: Two warders from Dartmoor Prison arrived Plymouth early this morning in search of convict named Morgan, who escaped from the prison about nine o'clock last night. The man severed the bars ...

Published: Monday 03 January 1898
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 480 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON

... ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON. A convict Dartmoor Prison was yesterday morning discovered attempting to escape by nigging his way through the thick wall of the prison. He must have been engaged the work for some weeks,and displayed considerable ...

Published: Wednesday 20 December 1876
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NORMAL ROUTINE AT \ ‘3 DARTMOOR \ . Normal routine was observed in Dartmoor Prison to-day. In spite of heavy

... NORMAL ROUTINE AT \ ‘3 DARTMOOR \ . Normal routine was observed in Dartmoor Prison to-day. In spite of heavy rain, parties of .convicts were at work outside. the fnson in the farms and gardens, and inside the workshops were occupied as usual. There was ...

Published: Friday 16 April 1937
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 66 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CONVICTS in Dartmoor Prison were paid yesterday for the first time. Nearly 1300 of them were on the pa{ roll,

... CONVICTS in Dartmoor Prison were paid yesterday for the first time. Nearly 1300 of them were on the pa{ roll, and many of them broke down and wept as thef received the first official acknowledgment that tb;{v are worthy of their award. It was a pathetic ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1987
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 201 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR AS ARMY 'PRISON

... DARTMOOR AS ARMY 'PRISON Dartmoor Prison is to be used as a military prison under new arrangements announced by the Home Office It was found necessary to transfer a large part of the population of Parkhurst Prison to Dartmoor in 1942, The reasons for ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1945
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 5 | Tags: none