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EVENING EDITION

... Cantonal authorities to be carried into eff-et. THE LATE ESCAPE OF A CoNviCT FROY DART- ?? convict whose escape from Dartmoor Prison and recapture caused so mod, trvihble and anxiety lately, hits been sentenced to havs iveights to the amount of 141bs ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1881
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 891 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

EVENING EDITION

... 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 

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 

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 

DEATH OF THE PUBLIC EXECUTIONER

... JAcY of- (the murderers of Barke and Cavendish).' MURDEROUS ATrACK ON A PRISON WARDER. Auotlier attack on a warder of Dartmoor Prison, such as have of late been so frequent, was made on Tuesday by Michael Johnstone, a convict under- going penal servitude ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1883
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1689 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

GENERAL NEWS

... large sum of £800 for gratuities, &c. A Plymouth correspondent writes- The date of the liberation of the claimant from Dartmoor Prison will be deferred in aonsequenco of his having been punished for a breach of discipline. He has, consequently, lost his ...

Published: Saturday 21 October 1876
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1993 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... run after it, to induce a better state of things. No.- Yours d, if Lnorod Ma v 17th, A1876 THE CLAUMANT was visited at Dartmoor prison ?? by Mr. Riddalph and Mr. onslow, who after- wards addressed a meeting in Plymouth, remarldng that the. Claimant was ...

Published: Saturday 20 May 1876
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2074 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

THE LIGHTING OF ASHTON-UPON-RIBBLE

... BENEATH 1t A P ?? AnitHPTa.-Two years ago George Bidwell, fr the notorious Bank of England forger, was transferred to p, Dartmoor Prison. Soon after, he was apparently seized CtL with paralysis of his lower limbs, and has ever sine been de an inmate of the ...

Published: Saturday 24 March 1877
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1993 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

GARDEN OPERATIONS

... KENEALY &f MR. ONSLOW le TO THE CLAIMANT. sy On Tuesday, Dr. Keneely and Mr. Guildford Onslow paid their visit to the Dartmoor prison, and held inter. D, views with the convict Orton. The interview between In Orton and his two friends commenced at two ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1875
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2330 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

Borrowed Crifles

... snore gratified I ilian time geritleunan's friends, ws'mu got time oil. i Duriring time war, Sir Isaac Collin visited Dartmoor prison, for time piurpose of releasimug all time American prisoners who born the Alamo mif Collhi, and umighmt be stimposcei ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1853
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1820 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

THE WINDFALLS OF 1880

... his cildren, are wanted ; also the widow and rhild of a pereon who was tried at the Gloucester I Assizee en3 died in Dartmoor prison In 1855. Informa- tlon was needed which would lead to the discovery of a girl who was left 18 years ago in care of the ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1890
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2193 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

GENERAL NEWS

... Junl), a ccn icl, 19 v'are if age, was senteecod to 15 vyers' penal servi. titde for a a murderous attacki on a warder of Dartmoor prison. SCROFULOUS AND SKIN DISEASES a specialty. Tboucands of testimonialc. Send three letter poetpge clamps for treatise i ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1883
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2335 | Page: 7 | Tags: News