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OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT OF CONVICTS IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT OF CONVICTS IN DARTMOOR PRISON. Very serious disturbances have for some weeks past, we understand, taken place in Dartmoor Prison, where the convicts have been displaying serious symptoms of insubordination and opposition to the regulations ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1861
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4157 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AFTER 19 TEARS

... AFTER 19 TEARS. A man naim'd Cook has been ordered to released from Dartmoor Prison after serving 1.9 years of penal servitude for life He was sentenced to death at Leeds Assizes July 26th, 1893. for murder, but th© sentence was afterwards commuted. ...

Published: Friday 11 October 1912
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 43 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

BREAKING INFO A PRISON

... felony in liondon, previous which he served seven years for manslaughter in Liverpool, lie got over the wall surrounding Dartmoor Prison at midnight on Saturday, and in doing so caught himself in the wire of a bell the main entrance. This drew the attention ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1890
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 341 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

December last, having undergone three three months of his sentanoe. The bs

... Linlithgow, He despatched the certificate, along with his claim for the balance of the grata!ty, to the Governor of Dartmoor Prison; but that attsial, being auapioioua of the genuineness of the doemneot, communicated to Mr. Colqdhoon, who undo arrangements ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1864
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CONVICT'S DESPERATION

... CONVICT'S DESPERATION. A convict named Donovan was found hanging in his cell at the Dartmoor Prison at Princetown. had torn off portion of his sheet and. using it as a rope, hanged himself to the ventilator. Warder Douch, who made the discovery immediately ...

Published: Friday 17 December 1909
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 141 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CONVICTS IN CHAINS

... CONVICTS IN CHAINS. Convict William Hutchings, who committed a savage assault an assistantwarder at Dartmoor Prison, on August 3rd, has received 30 lashes with the cat o’ nine tails. The Justices took very serious view of the affair. The warder received ...

Published: Friday 21 August 1908
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CONSCIENCE-MONEY AND THE CHURCH

... received, as will be seen from the following document, which was handed to him prior to his leaving Dartmoor for Bedford:— Dartmoor Prison, Bth April, 1861. “Messenger Blight will escort prisoner W. E Luckyn to Bedford, and place him in the workhouse there ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1861
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1761 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POOR LAW CASE

... sentenced at Jedburgh to four years' penal -ervitude for forgery and uttering a forged letter, and was liberated from Dartmoor Prison on the of ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1864
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

STEALING A WATCH AND CHAIN

... months for stealing a gold diamond pin. Principal Warden O’Brien, of Millbank Prison, said ho was a formerly a warder at Dartmoor Prison, The prisoner was under sentence of ten years’ penal servitude, and was a convict in that prison. Ho worked in the tailor’s ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1867
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 800 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... *.»,lcuek. alias Massey, alia* Matthew Williamson, alias George Johnson, alias Alexander ; a convict, No. 5,753. from Dartmoor Prison. On muster boing called, ho was missing, when Jhe turnkeys scoured the country ; but up the presen lime trace has been ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1855
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 336 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ORANGE BLOSSOMS. DaYison—Abbott. WEDDING AT HONG KONG St. John’s C athedral was beau ifully decorated with ..

... th(o pupils at Kirkby Stephen (Westmorland) Girls’ Grammar School A. convict named Morris attacked Warder Raymond at Dartmoor Prison on Thursday, and •truck him two blows with hammer, when two other convicts held him till assistance arrived. The Brighton ...

Published: Friday 29 November 1912
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Open Classed

... yesterday evening, the Bnnyan Literary Society had arranged lecture, by the Rev. W. Kingscoto Greenland, on “ Convict life in Dartmoor Prison.” Women’s Adult School. —On Sunday last, a discussion was held on Why do onr daughters object to going into domestic service ...

Published: Friday 29 January 1909
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 609 | Page: 5 | Tags: none