... | - DARTMOOR i BLAZE Fire broke out in a workshop at Dartmoor prison just before noon today. The fire broke out in a large first floor workshop and was confined to a quantity of matting material. The workshop was undamaged and no firemen or prisoners ...

... Whatever Frank Mitchell $ 4 has for his Christmas dinner — and wherever he eats it — the men he left behind in Dartmoor prison will, as far as is known, not find their menu and programme of entertainment changed because of his escape. No extra security ...

... Bomb-in-jar probe at Dartmoor prison Police and prison officers are investigating how explosives got into the possession of prisoners at Dartmoor. A small bomb contained in a fish paste jar was found inside the prison. It contained niiroglycerine absorbed ...

... Officer hurt in prison attack A prison officer was struck over the head with a red-hot iron bar in the blacksmith’s shop at Dartmoor Prison today. The officer was hit about the neck, arms and chest and was treated at the prison hospital for severe burns. A prisoner ...

... helicopte: r and tracker dogs were being used N‘fl in a hunt for robber ichael James g gey L run a work detail at a farm near Dartmoor prison. Thompson, aged 25, was serving four years at Dartmoor. h ...

... Dartmoor wives make protest ’ A PETITION . from Dartmoor Prison officers’ wives, complaining of “feeble action™ of the Home Secretary, Mr. Henry Brooke, !ovcr assaults by prisoners, was received at the Home Office today. ~ During_the last six months, ...

... ATI EMPTED ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR PRISON. A convict named La',ton almost succeeded in aged* his escape front Dartmoor Prison on Thursday The convict has made notation, in bin daring conduct at Portland Prism, where lis others shut themeel yes in their cells ...

... 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 ...

... allegation that Orton had fallen down exhausted and been removed the infirmary. The Claimant is still at ordinary work in Dartmoor Prison, and is likely to remain there for the nut seven years. His Crsihealth has been better sines he was cured of the by which ...

... s—Lord Evers and Mr. Guilford On ,by pensission of the Horne Secretary, visited Thomas Osio, is officially called, at Dartmoor prison yesterday. Durleg the interview the 000viet attempted to dwell apes the exceptional hardships of his treatment, but was ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...