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CAPTURE OF TWO CONVICTS

... on the Great Western line between Reading and Twyford. It appears that 13 convicts were under orders of removal from Dartmoor prison to Chatham, and were fastened to each other by the hands with the usual irons and chains, and they were all orderly and ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1860
Newspaper: Luton Times and Advertiser
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 752 | Page: 2 | 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

CONVICTS' CHANCES OF ESCAPE,

... semaphore system, invented and presented gratis to the nation, we believe, by Captain Best, the late Deputy-Governor of Dartmoor Prison. This signalling a pparatus has four arms, which can be readily raised and luwured in various directions, as required ...

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

BEDFORD SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION

... to 15 years’ transportation. The man was removed to Miilbank, where he remained two years, and was then transferred to Dartmoor prison, and employed on public works until he became partially paralyzed and unable to perform the prison labour. The case was ...

BEDFORD SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION

... to 15 years’ transportation. The man was removed to Millbank, where he remained two years, and was then transferred to Dartmoor prison, and employed public works until he became partially paralyzed and unable to perform the prison labour. The case was reported ...

AXOniKR KSCAPK TIIK VOTOHIOUS CONvi:?r, alkxanokr sigis.viund. police the metrop di* ft information of the o ..

... *.»,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

NEWS IN A NUTSHELL

... th« «««ck tb* li«« Presidentc Kora. Alfred Huwlett, who wa ...

Published: Friday 26 February 1909
Newspaper: Biggleswade Chronicle
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 369 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A TASTK FOR FOWLS

... it.—The Jurv brought in 1 verdict guilty. Inspector Daniels stated that defendant was tieket-of-leave man. having left Dartmoor prison nine months ago. He had reported imse’f the Police. had just two years more to complete sentence ot twelve years penal ...

SHARNBROOK

... service and the chief mourners were:—Mrs. O. F. Pigot. Miss Pigot uluught- i>. the Kev. Harry Pigot (son), chaplain of Dartmoor Prison; the Rev. Edward Pigot (son. Mr. Ned Pigot (grandson), Mrs. Murphv dxmdon). Dr. Parbury, Mi. and Mr® Miloman-Gibbard. ...

DARTMCOR SHADOWS Ex-Convict’s Fight for Rehabilitation

... DARTMCOR SHADOWS Ex-Convict’s Fight for Rehabilitation On Sunday a new series of the intensely interesting articles on Dartmoor Prison by the famous “Jock,” of Dartmoor, will commence in the “News of the World.” The millions of “News of the World” readers ...