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BREAKING INTO DARTMOOR PRISON

... BREAKING INTO DARTMOOR PRISON. Joseph Denny, a coloured man, was charged before the Tavistock magistrates yesterday with breaking into Dartmoor convict prison at midnight on Saturday last for an unlawful purpose, with the intentiou firing the building ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1890
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION AT DARTMOOR PRISON. 4 shocking explosion occurred whilst blasting in connection with some quarrying operations was ia pro- gress at Dartmoor Prison yesterday. A hundred convicts had been told off to blast, under the superin- tendencé ...

Published: Tuesday 13 September 1887
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 212 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE CLAIMANT INTERVIEWED AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... CLAIMANT INTERVIEWED AT DARTMOOR PRISON. [special telegram.] Plymouth, Friday Evening.—Mr. Guildford Onslow. Mr. John Helsby, and the Plymouth Tichborne Release Committee had twenty minutes interview with tho Claimant to-day Dartmoor Prison, by order of tbe ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1876
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

REMARKABLE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON

... REMARKABLE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON. [special telegram.] Plymouth, Tuesday Evening.—A convict at Dartmoor Prison was this morning discovered to be attempting to escape by digging his way through the thick wall of the prison. He must have ...

Published: Wednesday 20 December 1876
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

REMARKABLE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON

... REMARKABLE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON. Plymouth, Tuesday Evening.—A convict at Dartmoor Prison was this morning discovered to be attempting to escape by digging his way through the thick wall of the prison. He must have been engaged in the ...

Published: Saturday 23 December 1876
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

STARTLING INCIDENT AT DARTMOOR CONVICT PRISON,

... incident happened as the jury which quired Into the death of the convict killed by a warder were passing through the Dartmoor,Prison One of the convicts shouted to “Gentlemen, they starve us and murder us afterwards, Yos, gentlemen, they murdered the ...

Published: Monday 13 November 1882
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DAILY INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1939 Play’s Grim Background ■ * THE FORBIDDING Dartmoor Prison looks ..

... DAILY INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1939 Play’s Grim Background ■ * THE FORBIDDING Dartmoor Prison looks even grimmer in the snow. The children are not concerned. They are used to its stern outline. my.;- I-' , . ~ f : : -.. • .*•••••■ • • ■ •iff ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1939
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 64 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CONVICTS’ BAD NERVE • Jit Doctor’s Declaration Dartmoor Trial. Dr, Battlscombe, Medical ( Health at Dartmoor ..

... Declaration Dartmoor Trial. Dr, Battlscombe, Medical ( Health at Dartmoor Prison, stat {of special assize at Princetovvn, este the trial of thirty men arising out tb turbance at Dartmoor Prison, lia prisoners were suffering from ' I i(I » The man Mitchell ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1932
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 458 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

PRISONERS OF WAR

... PRISONERS OF WAR The Story of Dartmoor Prison,” Basil Thomson. (London: Win. - Heinemann.) (Price 3«. 6d.) When England was war with France,_ early in the nineteenth century, the number of prisoners taken far exceeded the accommodation available for them ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1907
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR' SCENES.’

... made statement in the House of Commons yesterday conditions at Dartmoor Prison. He said that since he made his statement on February Bth no incident of importance had occurred in Dartmoor Prison, but wished to take that opportunity of contradicting series ...

Published: Friday 26 February 1932
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 201 | Page: 5 | Tags: none