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OUR CONVICT SYSTEM

... felony once. Upon my last conviction at Taunton, I was incarcerattd eight months at Bath. From there I was removed to Dartmoor Prison, where I remained three years and four months; and during that period I have earned £12, 9s. 7d. for steady conduct and ...

Published: Thursday 25 August 1864
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 488 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

APPREHENSION OF SUSPECTED HOUSEBREAKERS

... Manchester. One of the men, who gives the name of Thomson, is sup- posed to be a ticket-of-leave* man liberated from Dartmoor Prison in the middle of December last. ...

Published: Monday 27 February 1865
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 365 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MAIL NEWS

... ae robbery. He then protested his iunoceuce, but it underwent flog gi and in due course of time wt was transferrea to Dartmoor prison. On h Saturday the governor visited his ceAl, and announcea that he had received Her Majesty's ts padon and weid immediately ...

Published: Monday 04 December 1876
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 676 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE CAREER OF A CONVICT

... George Woodcock, who was sentenced to six months b 1 imprisonment at the recent Devon winter assizes for escaping t from Dartmoor prison. I It appears that, although so young, being only twenty-five a ie years of age-he boasts that he has been il almost every ...

Published: Wednesday 31 December 1856
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 785 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LONDON, MAY 30

... to grasp the Smyth property at Staple- ton and Ashton must be remembered, died on Sunday afternoon in the infirmary of Dartmoor Prison. He bad been ailing for some time.-Times. Monument to Mr. Lockhart.-The more intimate friends of the late EMr. Lockhart ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1855
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1076 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT

... given against me. The spleen and snaiic4 which concocted the conspiracy against me pur.. sued me even within the ?? of Dartmoor Prison. For the first four years of my iniquitous imprison- mens I was treated with harshness and rigour, annF my friends, who ...

Published: Tuesday 21 October 1884
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1321 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE QUEEN AT WINDSOR CASTLE

... on the twelfth. ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR AND RECAPTURE. Our Tavistock correspondent telegraphs that a oonvict escaped from Dartmoor Prison, Prince- town, yesterday afternoon, but was captured after beino- at large for about half an hour. BREAKDOWN OF DESTRMYERS ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1899
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1942 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

APPEAL IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS

... prisoner, wbo was brought before a jury of his country heavily ironed, was an escaped convict, he having escaped from Dartmoor Prison whilst undergoing a sentenee of six years' penal servitude for burglary, one year of which was unexpired. In May last ...

Published: Monday 13 August 1860
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2078 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

LONDON, JUNE 17

... commission of doctors under the anthority of the Secretary of State. Up to Sunday last these orders had not boen aloptel in Dartmoor Prison, and the old scale wvas adhcrtd to, Qie that morningy, howevar, it was announecd to the convicts that the chango was to ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1864
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1926 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

COLONIAL CONVICT LIFE

... CONVICT LIFE. I .. _I, BY AN EX-OFFICIAL. The attempt on the part of three convicts on t Christmas Eve to escape from Dartmoor Prison has brought our present methods of penal servitude discipline very prominently under public notice, and Mr Michael Davitt's ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1897
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2199 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... a rec( favourite among the wanders, several of whom whe favour his pretensions. Yesterday. a convict Vat escaped from Dartmoor Prison. IHis course, the however, was tracked by a warder, -who,I in ] crouching behind a wall, caught the runaway as! digi he ...

Published: Wednesday 31 March 1875
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2570 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

ENGLAND

... price. It is understood that others will soon follow the example.-Tinaew. Extraordinary pEscape.-A convict escaped from Dartmoor prison on Thursday evening under extra- ordinary circumstances. It appeared that lie got out q of his cell by cutting a piece ...

Published: Friday 14 July 1854
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2629 | Page: 6 | Tags: News