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ARREST OF MR. MICHAEL DAVITT

... the rail_ ,ay station en route for Dartmoor Convict Prison. the prisoner was handcuffed and well guarded by police. The.Dartmoor prison officials were not very ?uxious to resume charge of him, for, without being positively turbulent, he was, during his in- ...

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... wavs convicted of robbery at Lei- cester, in 1861, and was sentpnced to ten. years' transporta- tion, and wet removed to Dartmoor Prison, where be re-: mained for some time, and'was then sent to Millbanl Pison, where. he feigned nsaity; and succeeded in de- ...

THE BACCARAT SCANDAL

... snow-plough. Since Saturday |week last the ordinary supplies of fresh nrrsat and other provisions have not been delivere- at Dartmoor Prison, ant-1 the convicts in consequence have bad more than the -su-l1 quattity of salt meat. This has occa- sioned discontent ...

THE PROVINCES

... THE PROVINE. EVONSH1RE.-EXTRAORDINAILY EsCAP&-A ou~ivit escaped from Dartmoor prison under extraor- ditr cireamastances. He ?? out of hoiscell byeutting a piece from the lock of his door, which enabled him to reach the large ball. He then proceeded to ...

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—YESTERDAY

... prisoner into his employment in conse- quence of the strong racnmmendations to do so that he received from the chaplain of Dartmoor Prison, where he was confined, and which induced him (prosecutor) to believe that he bad become reformed; buthe had been greatly ...

SATURDAY'S POLICE

... commiitted the murder had been discovered. On the nighb'of- the murder,' Thomas: 'Grime, of Chorley (norw a convict in Dartmoor. prison), 'was absent from home, and on the following morning, he had a strange watch, which he afterwards pasvned'; his brother ...

THE INQUEST ON THE EXETER VICTIMS

... erlizee istediwardied. A- ii Stxpi bess.; ii-L ?? 1 4twiu Lua . Si^tt} ita &a'$ F X yassfgxas*^ TERRIBLE EXPL OS1ON AT DARTMOOR PRISON. An txplonion occurred doring quarrying operations 3it Dartrroor P;iso, yesterday. A hundred convicts had been told off ...

GOODWIN'S CAPTURE

... Princetown. Dartmoor, on Monday, on the body of William Caricr, aged 22, who was shot dead while eadeavosirieg to escape from Dartmoor prison falrm, with Martin and Goodwin, on Christml as eve. Mr. T. B. J. Prickmiai, the coroner, said the official report of the ...

THE POLICE COURTS

... 55certaining what had become of the horse. BOW STREET. John Mackey, alias Cotton, was charged with having es- caped from Dartmoor prison, being a convict under sentence of transportation. Thornton, a detective, and other witnesses, stated that the prisoner ...

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

... of transportatvo id to which he had been sente nced'. to It appeared from'the statement of one of the officeri of Zr. Dartmoor prison, that the prisoner and another ?? Id made their escape from tha t establishment. The prisolle othad been sentence4 to ...

LATEST ASSIZE TRIALS

... Joseyph Weaver, aged twenty-six, a shoe- maker, was charged at Exeter, with assaulting Wm. Rumbelow, one of the warders at Dartmoor prison, with intent to murder him. Another count charged him with an assault with intent to do grievous bodily barm.-Wm. Rumbelow ...

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... would appear that on the 27th of April the prosecutor had charge of a gang of convicts at work in the abcum shied at Dartmoor prison, among whom was the prisoner. The prisoner and another man attempted to escape from this shed, bus were called back by ...