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OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT OF CONVICTS IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT OF CONVICTS IN DARTMOOR PRISON. Very serious disturbances have for some weeks past, we understand, taken place in Dartmoor Prison, where the convicts have been displaying serious symptoms of insubordination and opposition to the regulations ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1861
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4157 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AFTER 19 TEARS

... AFTER 19 TEARS. A man naim'd Cook has been ordered to released from Dartmoor Prison after serving 1.9 years of penal servitude for life He was sentenced to death at Leeds Assizes July 26th, 1893. for murder, but th© sentence was afterwards commuted. ...

Published: Friday 11 October 1912
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 43 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

BREAKING INFO A PRISON

... felony in liondon, previous which he served seven years for manslaughter in Liverpool, lie got over the wall surrounding Dartmoor Prison at midnight on Saturday, and in doing so caught himself in the wire of a bell the main entrance. This drew the attention ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1890
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 341 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

December last, having undergone three three months of his sentanoe. The bs

... Linlithgow, He despatched the certificate, along with his claim for the balance of the grata!ty, to the Governor of Dartmoor Prison; but that attsial, being auapioioua of the genuineness of the doemneot, communicated to Mr. Colqdhoon, who undo arrangements ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1864
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CONVICT'S DESPERATION

... CONVICT'S DESPERATION. A convict named Donovan was found hanging in his cell at the Dartmoor Prison at Princetown. had torn off portion of his sheet and. using it as a rope, hanged himself to the ventilator. Warder Douch, who made the discovery immediately ...

Published: Friday 17 December 1909
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 141 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CONVICTS IN CHAINS

... CONVICTS IN CHAINS. Convict William Hutchings, who committed a savage assault an assistantwarder at Dartmoor Prison, on August 3rd, has received 30 lashes with the cat o’ nine tails. The Justices took very serious view of the affair. The warder received ...

Published: Friday 21 August 1908
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Flavels Patent Range

... was lound that he answered Ihe deseription of an eseaped conviet from Dartmoor Prison, nud the nathorities of that prison were commuuieated with, The chief | warden of Dartmoor Prison attended before ths f magistrates and identified the prisoner ns a person ...

A CONVERTED CONVICT

... conducting the meeting on the Market Square. Afterwards the Salvation Army Hall there was concert sinuiar to those given in Dartmoor prison. I’onum. who accompanied Roberts, gave his experiences this meeting. was a waif, down and out, bordering despair the ...

CONSCIENCE-MONEY AND THE CHURCH

... received, as will be seen from the following document, which was handed to him prior to his leaving Dartmoor for Bedford:— Dartmoor Prison, Bth April, 1861. “Messenger Blight will escort prisoner W. E Luckyn to Bedford, and place him in the workhouse there ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1861
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1761 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POOR LAW CASE

... sentenced at Jedburgh to four years' penal -ervitude for forgery and uttering a forged letter, and was liberated from Dartmoor Prison on the of ...

Published: Saturday 09 April 1864
Newspaper: Bedfordshire Mercury
County: Bedfordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CONVICTS' CHANCES OF ESCAPE,

... semaphore system, invented and presented gratis to the nation, we believe, by Captain Best, the late Deputy-Governor of Dartmoor Prison. This signalling a pparatus has four arms, which can be readily raised and luwured in various directions, as required ...