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... DESPRRATE ATThKPT OF A CONvICT TO ESCAPE. -Last night, a convict named Laxton made a desperate attempt to escape from Dartmoor Prison. He hod been shut in his cell for the night, apparently secure, there being SLt. of granite masonry between him and the ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1881
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 982 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

WRECK OF A BRITISH BARQUE

... purpose, also with the intention of firing the building, and further with killing a sheep. The prisoner was discharged from Dartmoor Prison in January, 1889. and says he returned to have his revenge on Mr. Hardy, the chief warder, for whom he entertains intense ...

Published: Friday 22 August 1890
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1723 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

LETTER FROM THE CLAIMANT

... kindly submit the fallow- i ing incontestable facts to ?? Chamberlain's notice? Pav lu September, 187T when visitedl at Dartmoor Prison Jo by Lord Rivers, Mr. Guilford Onslow, and yourself, be 30 in the presence of the chief warder, you submitted bo a photo ...

Published: Tuesday 12 June 1883
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 972 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... Government cannotbe Induced to trytheni, though they have been languishing to far more purpose than the unhappy nobleman in Dartmoor prison. What ?? we do? Lord Derby when he was last in office threatened to send a floet to Cadic with respect to the Tornado ...

Published: Wednesday 22 March 1876
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1299 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

CHURCH AND STATE IN FRANCE

... incident happened is the jird which c es ?? - into the death of the coutict killed by a f n rder were passig -thioigh the Dartmoor -Prison E tgrotunds Onle f the convicts shouted to them, t an Geuatluzen, they starve us, od mu'4rder-us after- f 10 *wa, Yis ...

Published: Tuesday 14 November 1882
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1281 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

GREAT FIR IN LONDON

... in London, previous to which he served- seven years for man- slaughter in Liverpool. He got over the wall surrounding Dartmoor Prison at midnight on Sat- urday, end in doing so' caught himself in the wire of a bell at the main entrance. This drew the attention ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1890
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2072 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... time ago Dr. Kenealy and Mr. Guild- ford Onslow bad a difference, and when they went to visit the unhappy nobleman in Dartmoor Prison they had separate interviews. They seem to have shaken hands again, and to-night there is to be a great Magna Charta ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1876
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1455 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

GENERAL NEWS

... that Orton hadfallen o to down exhausted, and been removed to the Infirmary. The Claimant is still at ordinary work in Dartmoor Prison and, E. is likely to remain there for the next seven years. Col. A REMARKABLE LIQurDATION.-The last page in the history ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1877
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1404 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE

... sent notice of having agreed to a number of bills. A lot of petitiorin vwere presented, and the unhappy irmblemfnn in Dartmoor prison will be interested in lea-ning that up to the latest mbtaent exertions were being made in his behalf, a petition for his ...

Published: Thursday 16 August 1877
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1447 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE REPRESENTATION OF MERIONETHSHIRE

... has hol C the Te: wo Bsu wre 7 am ho] Sh the 'I VC ani t A convict named Staddon severely assaulted a Ir a warder at Dartmoor Prison on Wednesday. aB The remains of the late General Cbanzy were th in interred on Wednesday at Zut ZuZancy, in the sa Ardennes ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1883
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1429 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

SANITATION AND THE VAGRANT CLASSES

... with Dr. Richardson that, for the most part, disease was brought about by overcrowding. This was especially the case at Dartmoor Prison, which at one time wans very much overcrowded, and, as a consequence, typhus fever broke out. When the numbers were diminished ...

Published: Monday 06 April 1885
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1603 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

REPORT

... pent and myself, on behalf of our respective Go- crum- vernments in relation to the unfortunate trans- g so actions at Dartmoor prison of war,-on the 6th of the And, present month. Considering it of much importance erson that the report. whatever it might ...

Published: Friday 06 October 1815
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1586 | Page: 2 | Tags: News