... the cause of that trouble, not in the characters of the individual prisoners, but in something in the administration of Dartmoor Prison in the beginning.” Jimmy, not for the first time, places his finger unerringly on the sore spot, while at the same time ...

... winter of 1897 1 was to measure this, though not by experience, to the full. Th. ;.e were forty-six different gangs in Dartmoor Prison. The hardest worked parties were thoss employed in reclaiming bog-laud for the Duchy of Cornwall. The rocky state of the ...

... whom he stabbed iu a public-house on Saturday night. Tho inquest on the convict Bevan, shot during the disturbance at Dartmoor Prison, terminated in a verdict of justifiable homicide. The jury added that prompt action had prevented terrible consequences ...

... gns., the top price of the sale, one bull went to the Arisaig Estate at Fort William. Another bull was purchased for Dartmoor Prison Farm in Devon. Both bulls will be used in commercial herds of Galloway cows. What! No policy! Sir Peter Mills M.P. is ...

... THE JEWEL ROBBERY IN LONDON. WITII reference to the Hatton Garden robbery, an official from Dartmoor Prison visited Scotland Yard yesterday to lay before the heads of the Criminal Investigation Department certain information received from a convict now ...

... frost. Not less than 20 persons have been frozen to death on Wiltshire Downs. Others are missing. At Princetown, where Dartmoor Prison is situated, the supply of flour is exhausted, and some days must elapse before supplies can reach there. At the inquest ...

... who refused per quarter for it , OF Convicts. desperate attempt to escape was made on Tuesday by some convict* , at Dartmoor prison. A large number were en- gaged in haymaking, when eight of them, seiaug > what appeared favourable opportuu ty, I threw ...

... servitude, and was only liberated from Portland Prison on licence. After that he was a year Wakefield Prison, and three years Dartmoor Prison, being only liberated on January 28, 1910. He was at colliery after that, and had fie 3d day, but he only worked till ...

... life. He accounts for this by tho singular fact of one questions bsing, What is your age The “claimant” was visited at Dartmoor Prison on Friday afternoon by Mr Guildford Onslow, Sheriff Eaefc, and Mr Howarth. They remained longer than usual, the claimant ...

... not given, but I had dealings with six of these gentlemen, and inonly one instance —that of Mr. Basil Thompson, of Dartmoor Prison, now a Governor, a kind, courteous, and sympathetic gentleman Willi the Deputy • civilian. Twenty years ago the proportion ...

... Servitude Acta Committee in 1878, and is recorded in the minutes of evidence. Henry Philips was commended for discharge from Dartmoor Prison before his term had expired, in consideration of the very delicate state of his health and hie inability to walk. He described ...

... information about the spawning of trout which as a fisherman, I had naturally remembered. Years afterwards a convict at Dartmoor Prison on his deathbed confessed that he alone was guilty of the murder for which my oompemion in the porch so narrowly escaped ...