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HUNT STILL ON FOR ESCAPERS

... HUNT STILL ON FOR ESCAPERS ~ Search was continuing today for the two Dartmoor prisoners who absconded from an outside work ing party on Wednesday. ’ They are Clarence Samuel Twist, 30, and George Brailey, 32. ‘ Twist was sentenced at Smethwick and Birmingham ...

Published: Friday 19 August 1966
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 79 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PRISONER FLEES FARM

... PRISONER FLEES FARM Devon police were still searching today for a Dartmoor prisoner who fled from a working party on the prison dairy farm last night. Derek Turney, 24, serving a fiveyear sentence for shopbreaking, was wearing prison overalis when he ...

Published: Monday 05 December 1966
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

War of words prison strike

... War of words prison strike Five hundred Dartmoor prisoners were in the middle of a war of words today. Inmates at the ancient jail remained locked in their cells as militant prison officers stood their ground in a row with the Home Office. The officers ...

Published: Friday 06 October 1978
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 173 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

G EXPRESS AND STAR, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1962 Express d Star ESTABLISHED 1874 Average net sales exceed ° 215 ..

... Average net sales exceed ° 215,000 copies a day. MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1962 CHRISTMAS ON DARTMOOR IF the two escaped Dartmoor prisoners are not recaptured, Christmas at the prison will be one of the grimmest on record. Feeling between prisoners and warders ...

Published: Monday 24 December 1962
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 195 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

‘NO pressure to go,” says Yard man

... bombshell decision to quit. It came after he was cleared in a six-week police inquiry into his association with an ex - Dartmoor prisoner. At his suburban home in Sidcup, Kent, he said: “I walked out of Scotland Yard this afternoon for the last time ™ - Commander ...

Published: Tuesday 02 May 1972
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 220 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

George Blake

... the prison wall and used a 15ft. piefie of timber to scale the prison wall. It is believed they were barefooted. Two Dartmoor prisoners who escaped from an outside working party three weeks ago are still missing today. ‘ ...

Published: Monday 24 October 1966
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 225 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

AFIA ‘LINK’ WITH KRAY CASE

... AFIA ‘LINK’ WITH KRAY CASE Three more men were accused of the murder of escaped Dartmoor prisoner, “ Axeman ” Frank Mitchell, when 18 men, including the Kray brothers, appeared on remand at Bowstreet, London, today. During the hearing a request for bail ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1968
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 241 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

still on the run

... still on the run Police today renewed a hunt throughout the West of England for two Dartmoor prisoners who escaped from a working party at the prison farm after overpowering an officer. The men escaped yesterday in a prison Land Rover which has not been ...

Published: Monday 02 October 1972
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

POLICE CONTINUE

... being‘ manned and police are continuing their search in the prison area this| morning in the hope of recapturing escaped Dartmoor prisoner Charles Thompson. They hope he is hemmed in and . still i;: the area, but now face the Earthquake m Nepal possibility ...

Published: Thursday 30 June 1966
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 242 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

days, caught mn

... days, caught mn ’K t } A Dartmoor Prisoner. The docks at Hull were idle Clarence Samuel Twist (30), today despite last night’s appeal by formerly ‘of Vicarage-road. the Transport and General Workers Smethwick, who absconded Union to the 4,000 dockers ...

Published: Saturday 27 August 1966
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 262 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

ESCAPERS

... slipped his handcuffs and leapt out as it stopped at a road junction. And today is the 11th in the hunt for escaped Dartmoor prisoner, Frank Mitchell. Mitchell, who escaped from an outside working party on December 12, has demanded a release date in letters ...

Published: Friday 23 December 1966
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 426 | Page: 15 | Tags: none