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DARTMOOR PRISON SCENES

... DARTMOOR PRISON SCENES. Dartmoor convict prison has been the scene two more sensations. The officials are naturally reticent, but it has transpired that convict named Chamberlain, whose cell had just been unlocked enable him to go to his work, rushed ...

Published: Saturday 23 January 1904
Newspaper: Banbury Beacon
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DISTURBANCES AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... DISTURBANCES AT DARTMOOR PRISON. On Sunday afternoon there were two assaults by convicts on warders at Dartmoor Prison, followed later by a more serious outbreak, in which several convicts took part. inflicting serious injuries on two assistant warders ...

AFFRAY AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... AFFRAY AT DARTMOOR PRISON. A 4esperate assault was ma , 's on a warder at the corn ict establishment at l'rinert..wt, on Wednesday. A gang ofconvicts who had been ergaged at drains:o and reclamation work on the prison farm were mastered and interrogated ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1883
Newspaper: Henley Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR SHADOWS. EX-CONVICT'S FIGHT FOR REHABILITATION. On Sunday a new series of the intensely nteresting ..

... DARTMOOR SHADOWS. EX-CONVICT'S FIGHT FOR REHABILITATION. On Sunday a new series of the intensely nteresting articles on Dartmoor Prison by the famous * Jock of Dartmoor, will commence in the ** News of the World.” The millions of ** News of the World ™ ...

Published: Thursday 28 June 1934
Newspaper: Banbury Guardian
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 195 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NEW ATLANTIC LINE

... in the one case, and between Philadelphia and London in the other. OUTBREAK AT DARTMOOR PRISON• Whilst a party of convicts were digging trenches in a hog near Dartmoor prison, a man, serving a life sentence, tried to strike an assistant warder named Murby ...

Published: Friday 14 September 1900
Newspaper: Henley & South Oxford Standard
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A LITERARY PRISON INSPECTOR

... Fijians. For some timo he was Governor of Dartmoor Prison, leaving there in 1907 to become Governor of Wormw d Scrubs, Prison. One of the most interesting books of Dartmoor is his Story of Dartmoor Prison. Mr. Thomson was appointed secictniy to the ...

Published: Wednesday 18 June 1913
Newspaper: Oxfordshire Weekly News
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CONVICT

... sentenced at Jedburgh to four years' penal servitude fir forgery and uttering a forged letter, and was liberated from Dartmoor Prison on licence on the 24th of December last, having undergone three years and three months of his sentence. Tte balance of ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1864
Newspaper: Bicester Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 225 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR

... ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON. Another hopeless dash for liberty was made at Dartmoor convict establishment, Princetown, on Saturday. Three convicts, in charge of an assistant warder, were working on the prison farm, thatching a hay stack, during which ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1901
Newspaper: Henley Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 66 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SOULDXB

... wily child, 'the four aliment belle were unlaced and two wire Added. .1.1). 1907, by Anne Penman Gough. Dorharged from Dartmoor Prison afer venial three 3 ear% Frederirk Besets wax given ss. He to Bristol chunk. abased the agent of the D barged Prisoners' ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1908
Newspaper: Oxford Journal
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A VERA' 1114; Clit UCH

... all lovers of Dartmoor. It built of the local gannite just a century ago by the Frendli Ainerican prisoners of war, for Dartmoor Prison was origioally erected. chictiv by the prison officials and their this clinrch nearly 1,450 feet pea-level. an.i Is r ...

Published: Friday 27 March 1908
Newspaper: Abingdon Free Press
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Wigan Murder. The watch so anxiously sought for in connection with the Wigan murder has been found. On the

... with the Wigan murder has been found. On the night when it was committed, Thomas Grime, of Chorley (now a convict in Dartmoor. prison), was absent from home. Next morning he had a watoh, which he had not had previously, and which he afterwards pawned ...

Published: Tuesday 03 April 1866
Newspaper: Thame Gazette
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

police received infonnstion of s cottage basing b een broken open st Woodley on the previous night, and the ..

... before two magistrates for the borough. charged with having unlawfully made their escape from cuetudv. They wore the Dartmoor prison dress, and when the evidence of Inspector Townsend had been taken as to their capture the magistrates remanded the prisoners ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1860
Newspaper: Bicester Advertiser
County: Oxfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 2 | Tags: none