... Wonderful The play. My Three Angels. was produced for the Dartmoor Prison Drama Group by a Tavistock public school master. Mr. Robert Edwards. Three of the play's characters are women, and three women. with local amateur dramatic experience came to ...

... Warder was mob contact A MAN took a job as warder at Dartmoor Prison so that he could look after convicts for a London mob. ----- This was the boast be made to his landlord. it, yesterday. When the warder. James Edward Joy Adkins. left lodgings the landlord ...

... of clothes RIGID 30 punished for Dartmoor disturbance THIRTY men were punished for their part in the disturbances at Dartmoor Prison on December 23, following disciplinary inquiries by the governor, a Home Office official disclosed 'Yesterday. A further ...

... Warder foils ladder break A prison officer stopped three men with a ladder from breaking out of Dartmoor Prison. ---------- - The men. returning from chapel. dashed into a yard and scaled a 10ft. wall. They took a 25ft. ladder from the carpenters shop ...

... outside the prison. Some Princetown residents said that op Thursday night they saw two inert who had done punishment at Dartmoor Prison nearby in a car. Evans was jared for seven years in 1952 for factory breaking and larceny. He comes from Stanmore. Middlesex ...

... equipping the Town Hall at Princetown as a police court for the proceedings againbt some of the convicts concerned in . the Dartmoor prison mutiny are being made in the irison itself. It is believed the court will begin to sit w ithin the next ten days. Thirty ...

... SAMUEL HOARE, the Home Secretary, flew yesterday in an R.A.F. plane from Norfolk to Plymouth and paid a surprise visit to Dartmoor prison. On the journey he encountered strong headwinds and cloud and had to land at Exeter for a weather report. No Home Secretary ...

... DARTMOOR QUIET Rumours of further unrest In Dartmoor Prison were officially denied yesterday. It was stated that conditions in the prison were normal and that officers sent for temporary duty in January had left. A man whose internal organs are entirely ...

... Ghost village if jail goes If Dartmoor Prison is moved from Princetown the village would become almost empty and derelict, Devon County Council told yesterday. Mr. Duncan Straughen said : A derelict village would become a bigger eyesore than the present ...

... Convict's Atta;k on a Warder. Thomas Gurney, a convict undergoing penal servitude at Dartmoor Prison, was at Devon Assizes to-day sentenced to seven years' penal servitude for wounding Edward Wilmshurst, a warder, with intent maim him November 10th. Prisoner ...

... hemorrhage following shock through the explosion of a firework, was returned at the inquest last night. The population of Dartmoor Prison is now 250. compared with 440 at the time of the mutiny. There has been no recent change in the administration policy ...

... Sunday. Wthe Prison Commissioners today continued their investigations into the recent disorders among Borstal boys al Dartmoor Prison. thili moor land village was thronged today with holidaymakers who arrived by car, coach and bicycle. The market square ...