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Dartmoor Man Dropped 20 Feet To Ground TRACKER DOGS USED TO AID POLICE SEARCH

... Dartmoor Man Dropped 20 Feet To Ground TRACKER DOGS USED TO AID POLICE SEARCH illiam Bright, aged 25, escaped from Dartmoor Prison to-day by sawing through the bars of his cell, squeezing out of the window, and dropping 20 feet to the ground. He is believed ...

Published: Thursday 23 April 1959
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 73 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ACCEPTANCE BT CHINA

... peace. The correspondence has Been carried os through the United State* Ministers at Tokio and Pekin. DARING BURGLARY AT DARTMOOR PRISON. ...

Published: Monday 11 March 1895
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 74 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PICTURE CHECK AT PUB NEAR PRISON

... Photographs of a number of well-known London criminals were to-day being taken to the Forest Inn, at Hexworthy, near the Dartmoor prison, and shown to the landlord, Mr. Alfred Wise. It is thought that a man who is well known to Scotland Yard visited the prison ...

Published: Thursday 15 December 1966
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 300 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... Prison Commissioners confirmed that there was a hunger strike at Dartmoor. The statement said: Yesterday in I)' Hall at Dartmoor Prison, 91 men, dining in assosiation, collected their dinners on the cafeteria principle. Not one of them acted in association ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1955
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 97 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

STRUGGLE WITH A CONVICT. ATTEMPT TO HURL A WARDER DOWN- STAIRS

... STAIRS. A convict named Knowling has made a desperate attempt to inflict serious injury upon Assistant-warder Neeles at Dartmoor Prison. When mustering the prisoners for morning service, the officer found Knowling in his cell destroying his clothing. Neeles ...

Published: Thursday 23 March 1911
Newspaper: Northern Daily Telegraph
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

HE WANTS TO BUY DARTMOOR

... ITV adventure of the newly-promoted Detective-Inspector Baxter in Echo Four-Two will, he hopes, go towards buying Dartmoor Prison. Watkins. a London journalist, heads a syndicate which plans to turn the prison, due to close in five years, into a holiday ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1961
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 351 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CONVICT ESCAPES DRAG NET

... CONVICT ESCAPES DRAG NET SCORES of police were rushed to Dartmoor to-day after an escaped Manchester convict from Dartmoor prison ha d sliped the dragnet' which trapped his companion. As the dawn mist lifted a postman spotted the two men-25- year-old ...

Published: Friday 18 July 1947
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 75 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

VISIT TO THE CONVICT ORTON.,

... VISIT TO THE CONVICT ORTON., The Claimant was visited at Dartmoor Prison on Wednesday by Mr. Biddulph and Mr. Onslow, who afterwards addressed a meeting in Plymouth. Mr. Biddulph, who was one of the speakers, asserted that the prisoner was his cousin ...

Published: Saturday 20 May 1876
Newspaper: Liverpool Albion
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 122 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MUTINY AT DARTMOOR

... MUTINY AT DARTMOOR. At Dartmoor Prison just now increased vigilance is necessary to prevent rising of the convicts masse. Several serious affrays have lately taken place, but the news has been carefully repressed. An officer named Cotter lies in a precarious ...

Published: Friday 24 September 1880
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 76 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EX•CONVICT HERO DIES

... sentenced to death with other men for the murder of a man at Brighton. He was reprieved in 1932 while serving his sentence at Dartmoor Prison. He saved the life of the governor when the Dartmoor mutiny• broke out. Afterwards he was described as the hero of the ...

Published: Wednesday 24 December 1947
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 89 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POLICE USE DOGS

... POLICE USE DOGS The seam?' for 33-yearsold Leonard Gregory. at►o escaped last night from an outside working party at Dartmoor Prison Farm. centred to-day o the Heenock area. _ a few_ miles 1957 at Manchester Crown Court to floe years imprisonment for ...

Published: Thursday 22 October 1959
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 85 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DA/RTMOOR VIOLENCE

... written reply, states during the last 12 months, there have been seven cases of gross personal violence against officers at Dartmoor Prison. As a result of three of the assaults, sentences of corporal punishment were awarded against four convicts. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1941
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 48 | Page: 1 | Tags: none