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Service and Skill

... days. Pole Used in Dartmoor Escape A 25-year-old prisoner probably used a scaffolding pole to climb over a 20ft.-high Dartmoor Prison wall in thick drizzle at dusk last night. He is Cyril Shthead. serving a seven-year sentence for officebreaking, larceny ...

Published: Thursday 09 February 1961
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 191 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

HITS OFFICER

... HITS OFFICER Two officers at Dartmoor Prison were slightly hurt in an Incident on New Year, Eve, it was learned yesterday. The men were returning to their celLs after work when a prisoner struck one officer in the face with his fist and butted the other ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1965
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 188 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

`Prepared to pay'

... that I can hardly refuse. Two prisoners escape from Dartmoor Two prisoners absconded from an outside working party at Dartmoor Prison yesterday. They were Clarence Samuel Twist (30), and George Brailey (32). Twist was sentenced at Birmingham Assizes on ...

Published: Thursday 18 August 1966
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 225 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Makarios in talks

... the road. one said. The load was transferred to another vehicle. Marples saiwers critics --rags Dartmoor plan deferred Dartmoor Prison to not to be closed In the foreseeable future. as had been originally planned. Mr. Henry Brooke, the Home Secretary, said ...

Published: Tuesday 28 July 1964
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 219 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

STATE AID WIDOWS Str Barnett Pinner, M.P. (left), president of the Jewish Board of Deputies, and Sir Robert ..

... Henry Seymour Bromley OM, serving live years for housebreaking and larceny. escaped from an outside working party at Dartmoor Prison yesterday. Thick fog hampered the search for him last night. Bramley, a former public schoolboy, disappeared from a party ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1963
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 255 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

Two Andersens

... The record is 4hr. imin Rubberbones ' Back in Gaol Harold Roy Webb 136 i, nicknamed Rubberbones after escaping from Dartmoor Prison through a narrow air duct in 1951, was sentenced at London Sessions yesterday to two years' imprisonment for breaking ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1957
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 213 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

M.P.'s Talk

... Used by Prisoner in Dartmoor Escape A 25-year-old prisoner probably used a scaffolding pole to climb over a 20ft.-high Dartmoor Prison wall in thick drizzle at dusk last night. He is Cyril Birkhead, serving a seven-year sentence for officebreaking, larceny ...

Published: Thursday 09 February 1961
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 208 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ARNOLD. GENDERS

... FINEST SELECTION ON VIEW AT Showrooms: ALCESTER RD. STH.. KING’S HEATH OUTER CIRCLE BUS ROUTE TRAMS 39 & 42 PASS DOOR DARTMOOR PRISON PERSONNEL OF FRENCH CABINET SOME CRITICISM OF PRESENCE OF SIX SOCIALISTS M. REYNAUD MEETS HIS MINISTERS Paris, March 23 ...

Published: Monday 25 March 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 216 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

VILLAGERS RUNNING OUT OF FOOD

... lorries, ready to rush food or blankets to the spot. or to carry stranded people away, In case they oan be reached. Dartmoor Prison was running short of yeast for bread-making, and nearby Princetown was isolated and almost without food. The village was ...

Published: Wednesday 06 February 1963
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 220 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

DARTMOOR WIVES' PETITION

... C2O. Lord Justice Danckwerta agreed that the appeal be dismissed. `Feeble action' by the Home Secretary A petition from Dartmoor prison officers' wives complainin of feeble action by the Home Secretary (Mr. Henry Brooke) over assaults by prisoners was ...

Published: Tuesday 26 March 1963
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 978 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

STATE AID WIDOWS Sir Barnett Danner, M.P. (left), president of the Jewish Board of Deputies, and Sir Robtrt ..

... Henry Seymour Bramlev (39), serving five years for housebreaking and larceny, escaped from an ouiaide working party at Dartmoor Prison yesterday. Thick fog hampered the search for him last night. Brantley, a former public schoolboy , disappeared from a ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1963
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 254 | Page: 13 | Tags: none