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A DARTMOOR PRISON POET

... A DARTMOOR PRISON POET. Dartmoor Prison is scarcely the place in which one would expect the poetic fancy to run riot. One of the convicts confined there has, however, says the Western Morning News, been making a bid for the reversion of the Poet Laureate's ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1897
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY, 24th, 25th tt 26th: l The Great Super Picture which strikes the heart strings ..

... which strikes the heart strings cuaacluaufzit a,aalo a aortalp The Film that was Screened before six hundred convicts at Dartmoor Prison, and the First to be shown in the London to Scotland Mail Something you must not miss, It will linger in your memory like ...

Published: Thursday 17 April 1924
Newspaper: Flintshire County Herald
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Advertisement | Words: 64 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CONVICT'S DESPERATION

... CONVICT'S DESPERATION. A convict named Donovan was found honing in his cell at the Dartmoor Prison at Princctown. He had torn off a portion of his sheet and, using it as a rope, hanged himself to the lentilator. Warder Doech, who made the discovery , ...

Published: Thursday 16 December 1909
Newspaper: Flintshire Observer
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

RECAPTURE OF AN ESCAPED CONVICT

... RECAPTURE OF AN ESCAPED CONVICT. John Bray, (13, undergoing (lie years' penal servitude at Dartmoor Prison for liouset reeking, and who effected his escape about even dap, ago, was recaptured on Monday afternoon at Luitleigh. As he had formerly lived ...

Published: Thursday 31 July 1884
Newspaper: Flintshire Observer
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 208 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LLOYD GEORGE'S SHEPHERD. POLICE DESCRIPTION OF THE FUG ITIVE

... OF THE FUG ITIVE. The Denbighshire police have iscued the folios% ing circular describing the missing old shepherd of Dartmoor Prison, whose case noted by Mr Lloyd George and Mr Winston Churchill on their recent visit to the convict establishment. and ...

Published: Friday 27 January 1911
Newspaper: Flintshire Observer
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CONVICTS IN TEARS

... CONVICTS IN TEARS. General Booth on Thursday addressed sa Audienee of convicts in the prison chapel at Dartmoor Prison, Princetown. Although attest. dance at the service was quite optional, there were nearly a thousand convicts present. filling the g ...

Published: Thursday 06 September 1906
Newspaper: Flintshire Observer
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 246 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

4A ATTACKED BY CONVICTS

... 4A ATTACKED BY CONVICTS. Al Dartmoor Prison on Biniday there as many as three outbreaks among the convicts. Shortly sfter the midday meal, • gmg ot primmer' were awaiting their turn for esercise in one of the balls. Assistant Warder Soinees spoke to a ...

Published: Thursday 09 January 1908
Newspaper: Flintshire Observer
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 272 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ANNUAL POLICE INSPECTION

... during the past twelve months. During his tour the Inspector was accompanied by Mr. R. Yarnell Davies, Chief Constable. • Dartmoor Prison, at Prineetowiv, was founded in 1806. An error of a thousandth part ot a second in an astronomical calculation would mew ...

Published: Friday 24 September 1926
Newspaper: Flintshire County Herald
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AN AMAZING CRIMINAL

... Rearrested in and tried at South London and at Chelmaford, be was sent to penal servitude for ten veers. He escaped from Dartmoor Prison, and during his four or five days liberty caused considerable sensation in the neighbourhood by his robberies of food ...

Published: Thursday 29 April 1909
Newspaper: Flintshire Observer
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 269 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CERTIFIED AS DEAD

... of penal servitude. A couple of years or so after his marriage ke ran away, and his wife, hearing that he had died in Dartmoor Prison, wrote there, and in return received a certificate of his death. He was, however, alive, and in 1882 was sentenced to ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1889
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 397 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LORD GWYDYIL

... found on the railway at Tednambury, 'sear Sawbridgewortb. Thirty-tire pnsoners have received the rite of confirmation us Dartmoor Prison chapel. 4 .‘ S. 1 17 1 77 , g; IF i 1 ' , ' . 1 A L ',' ' i ll , G ' 141 : ' , ,:``; 1 ‘ I kk tc, VI A . ,' ' I . ...

Published: Thursday 15 April 1909
Newspaper: Flintshire Observer
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Illustrated | Words: 427 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

JABERGELE NOTES

... him, has been sentenced to 12 months' bard labour. A convict named Alfced Lincoln escaped from a working gang ouUkle Dartmoor Prison the othei' morning, but was pursued by warders and recap- tured only two fields off. The Qneen has held an investiture ...

Published: Saturday 18 December 1897
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 436 | Page: 5 | Tags: News