“Those pilots could not even identify their own helicopters. They are just gung-ho and trigger happy.” - ..

... killed by American “friendly fire” in the Guif War, on the latest US blunder In Iraq. 'mgwpeismuymdfinefivmmymimd view. - Dartmoor prison govemor John Powis after three dangerous inmates escaped. “I intend to stay underground for as long as the miners feel ...

Published: Friday 15 April 1994
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 79 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

lignite

... lignite Only four days ago the theft of 41 sticks of gelx*nile and fifty yards of fuse from Dartmoor Prison quarry was notified to police forces throughout the country. The thief or thieves forced open a locked stone storehouse and a gate in a surrounding ...

Published: Monday 07 February 1955
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Prisoner jumps train—caught

... Keith Saxton, 28, escaped from an escort of prison officers at Andover (Hampshire) junction today when being taken to Dartmoor prison. But he was recaptured an hour later in an emfpty garage about 75 yards away from where he jumped out of a train. He was ...

Published: Tuesday 08 May 1962
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

2Q-00 Prisoners recaptured

... way today into how two prisoners were able to cut their way through window bars with an acetylene torch and escape from Dartmoor Prison using a 17ft ladder made in the jail’s workshops. David Meads, 44, serving four years for burglary, hurt an ankle on landing ...

x BALLOT BRIEFS

... by horse and foot across moorland paths on Dartmoor to vote to-morrow in the Tavistock Division of Devon. Prisoners at Dartmoor Prison who were sent there after the voters’ list was compiled, will be entitled to vote. ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1951
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Escaped at

... Escaped at football match POLICE motor and foot patrols intensified their search or Norman Ellis, aged 25, who scaped from Dartmoor prison tm)m'v before 9 p.m. last‘ ight. Ellis, when he got away—. a 5 taking part in a football lr‘nlalgch»—was wearing prison ...

Published: Tuesday 26 June 1956
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 73 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

News in Brief

... News in Brief 18 Evening Telegraph NOISE from a party at Princetown. Devon, was so loud that inmates in Dartmoor prison a mile away complained that the 2am mcrry-makini was keeping them awake. So police went along and asked the revellers to turn their ...

Published: Thursday 09 July 1987
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 82 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

‘Rubber Bones’ Waits for Escort Dartmoor Escapee | Recaptured

... Recaptured 'IIWEN’I’Y-F’IVE year old Harold Roy (Rubber Bones) Webb was in Wandsworth Gaol to-day awaiting an escort from Dartmoor Prison from where he escaped eight days ago. It is understood that Webb will not be charged with any offences in the Metropolitan ...

Published: Monday 26 November 1951
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 84 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Moorland hunt for prisoner

... Moorland hunt for prisoner A massive hunt was underway in Devon this afternoon after a Midlands man escaped from Dartmoor prison. Brian O’Dell fled into desolate moorland while with a working party outside the prison at Princetown today. Prison officers ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1986
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Dartmoor escapees caught

... Dartmoor escapees caught _One of the two prisoners who escaped from Dartmoor prison on Wednesday night was recaptured early today. Robert Matterson, aged 28, was held in custody at Bristol and was expected to be returned to the prison later in the day ...

Published: Friday 12 April 1974
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Prison staff hurt

... Prison staff hurt Five Dartmoor prison officers were injured in two separate incidents, governor John May said today. - e Two were off work, one with broken ribs, after being attacked by an inmate drunk on illicit aficohol. A day earlier, three officers ...

Dartmoor protest threats

... Dartmoor protest threats Dartmoor Prison was operating normally today but by the weekend officers are expected to stage the first of a series of snap 24-hour protests. Yesterday the 150 officers rejected Home Office plans to improve their quarters ...

Published: Wednesday 06 April 1977
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 101 | Page: 33 | Tags: none