... FIRE AT DARTMOOR PRISON. Some alarm was occasioned at Princetown on Monday by an outbreak of fire in the laundry of the Dartmoor convict prison. For a time the fire assumed a menacing aspect, but by the energetic efforts of the fire brigade, consisting ...

... formerly in the Colonial service, and at one time acted as Prime Minister of Tonga. Subsequently he was made Governor of Dartmoor Prison, a position which he vacated to become Governor of Wormwood Scrubbs Prison in 1907. His knowledge of' fit:e conditions ...

... is being brought into general use in convict establishments, a very large transfer of prisonars has taken place from Dartmoor Prison during the past month. Portland Prison will now be made the residence of those adult prisoners who are not habitual gaol-birds ...

... that and do nothing to remedy the defecta of which he had spoken was simply a canting absurdity. While making visits at Dartmoor Prison Dr. Murray (the medical officer) was attacked by a convict named Nortb, who was at omce overpowered by warders, At the ...

... POLICE OFFICER. A convict named Hanley, who was recently engaged in company with other convicts reclaiming land necar Dartmoor Prison, made a most determined attack on an oTicer, striking him across the head with a crowbar and rendering him insensible ...

... eerving a term of nearly fourteen years penal servitude for manslaughter, George Williams, who has been released from Dartmoor Prison, is shortly to marry his old sweetheart. There are three interesting railway annmiversaries this month, The London and ...

... Mr. Richard Kerr, F.R.A.S., delivered a lecture on “The Microscopic Wonders in Nature ” to eleven hundred convicts in Dartmoor Prison. The lecturer was listened to with the utmost attention Westminster's contribution of £1,973 to the King Edward Memorial ...

... CONVICTS IN TEARS. General Booth on Thursday addressed an audience of conviets in the prison chapel at Dartmoor Prison, Princetown. Although attendance at the service was quite optional, there were nearly a thousand convicts present, filling the grim-looking ...

... in 1900, and tried at South London and at Chelmsford, he was sent to penal servitude for ten years. He escaped from Dartmoor Prison, and during his four or five days’ liberty caused considerable sensation in the neighbourhood by his robberies of food ...

... on the railway at Tednambury, near Sawbridgeworth. 'l‘hirty-fi\:e prisoners have received the rite of eonfirmation in Dartmoor Prison chapel. N 7 %, Friin: .’E- '\g i, 2 ST o A S [fi& N 'M~ W R x ‘)l” NN N ...

... ESCAPED CONVICT EXCITING EXPERIENCES. After a pursuit lasting 84 hours Walter Silvester, the conviet who escaped from Dartmoor Prison, was captured at daybreak on Monday morning at Roborough, on the southern fringe of the moor. 'The capture was effected ...

... a convict, 19 years of age, has been tried for maliciously wounding with intent to kill John Siaddon, a warder of the Dartmoor Prison. Jones was one of a party of convicts engaged in draining on the pricon firm, Previous to their being marched back to ...