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DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. A contemporary relstes the following :—We were going leisurely up the road, when I saw a mu in a dark coat standing on the bank with a gun in the hollow of his arm, looking at something beneath him in the field, and hating the appearance ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1869
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

OUTBREAK AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... OUTBREAK AT DARTMOOR PRISON. SERIOUR MITATION MA . ..---- Ti transpired on Saturday that a few days ago, at , Prineetown Prison. Dartmoor, a very senous sites. I lion was saved by the alert and prompt action of • warder. A gang of convict. were ...

REFORM AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... REFORM AT DARTMOOR PRISON It was nqt way long ago that the very name of Dartmoor struck terror into the heart of the most seasoned criminal. Borstal was all fght, Portland had, but endurable; out Dartmoor—.no words, at least no printable words, could ...

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. The report of the directors of convict prisons has jus' 1 issued. The Governor of the Dartmoor Prison reports that on the Ist January, IS* 14, there were 71'- prisoners under his care, and that received ■ >1S during the year, This total ...

Published: Thursday 17 August 1865
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 390 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

DARTMOOR PRISON

... DARTMOOR PRISON. Yr. Basil Thomson. formerly Governor of Dartmoor Prison. in a book upon the early his. tory of that place. says in the early part et the 19th century IVith some 5.000 inmates, the prison of Dartmoor presented curious and remarkable social ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1908
Newspaper: Coventry Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 388 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FIRE AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... FIRE AT DARTMOOR PRISON. Some slam was occagioned at Prinoetown ow Monday by an outbreak of ere in the laundry of the Dartmoor monied prison. For a time the fire assumed a menacing aspen, but by the energetic efforts of the fire brigade, consisting of ...

Published: Saturday 05 August 1905
Newspaper: Cannock Chase Courier
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 69 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CONSPIRACY AT DARTMOOR PRISON

... CONSPIRACY AT DARTMOOR PRISON Somewhat alarming rumours have been set in circula- tion as to insubordination among the convicts at Dart- moor, and even of a plan elaborately prepared for a general escape of the prisoners. Sir John Duckworth, one of the ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1882
Newspaper: Worcester Journal
County: Worcestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 476 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LIPS IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... LIPS IN DARTMOOR PRISON. Dartmoor Prison itself was originally built at the beginning of last century to accommodate our French prisoners of war who were rotting in the insanitary hulks at Plymouth, awaiting the final crushing of, Napoleon. The little ...

Published: Friday 21 March 1902
Newspaper: Nuneaton Observer
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1118 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LIFE IN DARTMOOR PRISON

... LIFE IN DARTMOOR PRISON. Dartmoor Prison itself was originally built at the beginning of last century to accommodate our French prisoners of war who were rotting in the insanitary hulks at Plymouth, awaiting the final crushing of Napoleon. The little ...

DARTMOOR PRISON SCENE

... DARTMOOR PRISON SCENE Fight in a Cell ['MED PRISONER'S PROTEST AS TO TREATMENT ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1932
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 13 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON ESCAPE PLOT IS

... DARTMOOR PRISON ESCAPE PLOT IS Man had a Miners 'fit and well' after 125 hours down pit THE two miners staging a stay down protest at Coventry Colliery, Keresley, were visited overnight by the chairman of the Coventry branch of the National Union ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1964
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 408 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR PRISON TO BE USED

... DARTMOOR PRISON TO BE USED Dartmoor Prison is to be used for Borstal purposes owing to the large increase in the number of youths committed by the courts to Borstal institutions and the problem of accommodation. A Home Office statement says: “The recent ...

Published: Thursday 27 September 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 361 | Page: 3 | Tags: none