... news of the tragic death of former senior officer, Mr. W. M. Gilbert. Mr. Gilbert was found shot dead in his quarters Dartmoor Prison, where he had recently gone as second chief officer. A shotgun was lying by his side. He was taken ill soon after arriving ...

... CONVICTS TEARS. General Booth addressed nearly 1,000 convicts in Dartmoor Prison yesterday, with wonderful tolling effect, and brought tears to their eyes. The convicts burst into applause the General left the platform. ...

... Chelmsford, chairman of the Prison Officers' Association, speaking at a conference of that Association at Liverpool, said Dartmoor Prison not fit for prisoners or staff, and the Home Secretary who closes it will have rendered a service to civilisation. This ...

... Stranglers' double time WHEN two members of the Stranglers played at Dartmoor Prison recently, who should join them on guitar but Cambridge muso Ted Koehorst. The gig had been organised to commemorate the handover of a prize in connection with National ...

... CONVICT RECAPTURED EMC Williams, 26, of Ivelvinside, Glasgow, one of the two convicts who escaped from Dartmoor Prison yesterday was re-captured soon after dawn to-day. He was caught thirty miles from the prison, by a police dragnet, which 9 always thrown ...

... involved in accidents or contravened police regulations is advocated in Paris, Owing to the curiosity of holiday-makers, the Dartmoor Prison authorities have erected a net screen a quarter of mile long round the quarry where the prisoners work. ...

... DARING ESCAPE FROM PRISON. DESPERATE CONVICT WHO WAS TRIED AT CHELMSFORD. Two convicts waled the wall of Dartmoor Prison co the 13th and escaped. They hid in the moon, but one of the two, Fergus Frith, was raptured on Friday. The other man. Walter thlvester ...

... of th® London nnd St. Kstherine’s Docks. th® post week Arthur Orton was. is stated removed from his ordinary cell at Dartmoor prison to the Infirmary, is being attended for swelling and gathering one of bis legs. 'Dj the order of the medical officer is ...

... the King's Head pablic-hoaso, in Duntnow. Witness produced the magistrate official paper, signed by the authorities of Dartmoor prison, from which it appeared prisoner had been imprisoned there for embezzlement in 1861. Witness afterwards examined the ...

... FROM. DARTMOOR TO STRATFORD Stratford Petty Session on Friday, White, 51. described as a butcher, of Dartmoor Prison, was charged, on writ habeas corviw, with stealing four horses, a quantity oi harness, and a brick can, valued at £145, the property of ...

... become couvinced tariff reformer. The Rev. L. J. Hudson, formerly chaplain of Chelmsford Prison, and now chaplain of Dartmoor Prison, has been appointed chaplain of his Majesty's Prison, Portland. The Tendriug Hundred Farmers' Club are asking the County ...

... intention of doing so to the police.— Detective-Inspector mons. of Colchester, said the defendant was liberated from Dartmoor Prison Jan. and instructed to report himself at Colchester. This did, and regularly so, tnrough February »nd March, but April ...