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SHE MF~AT~t ITERNI.D AND CAVAN ADVERTISER,-SATURDAY A:PHIL 28, 1883 NEWS NOTES

... a convict, 19 years of age, has been tried fir maliciously wounding with intent to k II Jehn Staddon, a warder of the Dartmoor Prison. Jones was one of • party of convicts engaged in draining on the prison farm. Pr vious to their being marched hack to ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1883
Newspaper: Meath Herald and Cavan Advertiser
County: Meath, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3360 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE LAND COMMISSION IN HELLS

... injured. A CONVICT KILLED--SRVERAL PIERSON& INJURED.---A shocking explosion occurred during some quarrying operations at Dartmoor prison on Monday. A hundred convicts had hem told off to blast under the sup:•rintendenee of Principal Warder Moore, and Mr Bodiner ...

Published: Saturday 17 September 1887
Newspaper: Meath Herald and Cavan Advertiser
County: Meath, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1881 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A MARTYR TO MATRIMONY

... all the crime in the metropolis. LIFE AT DARTYOO6.—ABother desperate M- tempt to obtain liberty has been made at the Dartmoor Prison. Two convicts, named Morgan and Britton, while working in a field on Tuesday, suddenly rushed towards a wall, over which ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1877
Newspaper: Meath Herald and Cavan Advertiser
County: Meath, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2206 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEATH IN THE STREET

... letter attributed to Mr. Biddulph, who, in company with Mr. Guildford Onslow and Mr. East, paid a visit to the Claimant in Dartmoor Prison on the 13th inst. : On our arrival at the prison we were reoeived most eourteously by the governor, to whom we had sent ...

tHEAtIi HkiiALl), ANli-CAVAiV ADVEILtiSgIt, SATUAbit, JUNE 13, 18fla

... 2s. lid. and costa for having a cart without a name on it.—Reporter. A convict named Kennedy, escaped last week from Dartmoor prison, climbing the wall by means of a rope. Ile was ncaptured the same day in • public-house in Ashburton. It seems that about ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1863
Newspaper: Meath Herald and Cavan Advertiser
County: Meath, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3013 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MARSHAL MACMAHON'S DECLARATION

... and Mr. Guildford Onslow, by permission of the Home Secretary, visited Thomas Osetro, as he is officially called, at 'Dartmoor Prison. During the interview the convict attempted to dwell upon the exceptional hardships of his treatment, but was rescinded ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1877
Newspaper: Meath Herald and Cavan Advertiser
County: Meath, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4903 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE MEATH HERALD AND CAVAN ADVERTISER-SAITHDAY,

... floggings, for garrotte robbery. He then protested innocence, but underwent flogging, and was in due course transferred to Dartmoor Prison. On Saturday the governor visited his cell, and announced that he had received her Majesty's pardon and would immediately ...

Published: Saturday 16 December 1876
Newspaper: Meath Herald and Cavan Advertiser
County: Meath, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 6163 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE MEATH HERALD AND CA VAN ADVERTISER-SATUR DAY, FEBRUAttY B, 1896. PENAL SERVITUDE AT PORTLAND

... unintelligible to ordinary_folk, but some have passed into common speech. Here is • sample from Captain Harris's work on 'Dartmoor Prisons : I buzzed • bloke on the fly, and nicked his poke with two five and a quid; but got bested before the beak, for the ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1896
Newspaper: Meath Herald and Cavan Advertiser
County: Meath, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3899 | Page: 4 | Tags: none