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MUTINY AT DARTMOOR

... MUTINY AT DARTMOOR. A serious mutiny occurred on Friday afternoon in last week among the convicts in Dartmoor prison, at Prince town. The principal warder, named Westlake, mi visiting the gang in the quarry, was attacked by one of the prisoners, who called ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1880
Newspaper: Bury Free Press
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 184 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE ESCAPE FBOX DARTIOOB-

... FROM D A Tavistock correspondent telegraphs that Fer gus Frith, ono of the convicts who escaped from Dartmoor Prison on Thursday afterncon, was at midnight at about four at bat he is to be in biding in arders are also moots ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1901
Newspaper: Evening Star
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 41 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LASH FOR CONVICTS

... LASH FOR CONVICTS. The two convicts, Chuter and Rollit, who recently attacked two warders at Dartmoor Prison, have received respectively one dozen and two dozen lashes with the cat, and they are in addition to be restrained in irons, and to wear the ...

Published: Saturday 12 May 1906
Newspaper: Evening Star
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 48 | Page: 3 | 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

CONVICT ATTEMPTS ESCAPE

... CONVICT ATTEMPTS ESCAPE. FOUND WANDERING IN PRISON CORRIDORS. In Dartmoor Prison a convict was found wandering in one of the corridors with a rope made from blankets and oddments. confessed that he had g*t out of his eel! through the ventilator, and had ...

Published: Friday 24 September 1920
Newspaper: Diss Express
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 53 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NEWMARKET AND THURLOW FOXHOUNDS

... Planton, 6.30. Thursday, Sept. Tth, Thurlow, for A.8.C., 6.30. Three I.LR.A. convicts are stated to bein hospital in Dartmoor Prison as the result of an attack by other prisoners, who resented their remarks about the recent bomb outrage at Coventry. ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1939
Newspaper: Newmarket Journal
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 49 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Dartmoor Convict’s Suicide

... Dartmoor Convict’s Suicide. Details of tke suicide at Dartmoor Prison of @ con- show vict named Wilson, a native that he broke the glass of his cell window, s furious storm preventing noise of the falling He then bimeelf from the iron rope t bis bed sheets ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1913
Newspaper: Suffolk and Essex Free Press
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 52 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WARDER ATTACKED BY CONVICT

... WARDER ATTACKED BY CONVICT. A savage upon Warder J. Raymond was made Dartmoor Prison Saturday morning newly arrived convict named Oillett. from Stafford. When breakfast was taken to the convict threw *he floor, knocked the warder down with blow in the ...

Published: Monday 18 January 1909
Newspaper: Eastern Daily Press
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 54 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... - — A convict named Waterworth attempted to escape from Dartmoor Prison while working in the quarry. He scaled the side and got on to the moor. Two armed guards fired over his head, but as he continued his flight one oi the guards fired at him, and he ...

Published: Friday 03 May 1912
Newspaper: Cambridgeshire Times
County: Cambridgeshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 66 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A CONVICT'S ESCAPE

... ESCAPE. During a heavy fog on Friday afternoon convict named Wilson, thirty-five years of age, succeeded in cecaping from Dartmoor Prison. Wilson was working with a gang of about twenty convicts in the public road outside the prison, when he suddenly made ...

Published: Friday 06 November 1908
Newspaper: Diss Express
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 246 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

RELEASE OF A FENIAN,

... Friday night in London, at which monetary support was voted for Michael Davitt, a Fenian, who was suddenly released from Dartmoor prison on Wednesday last on & ticket-of leave. He has served seven years and five months of 15 years’ penal servitude to which ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1877
Newspaper: East Anglian Daily Times
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 62 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WARDSR ATTACKED BY

... WARDSR ATTACKED BY CONVICT. A savage assault noon Warder J. Raymond was made at Dartmoor Prison on Saturday morning by a newly arrived convict named Gillett, from Stafford. 11'hen breakfast was taken to him the convict threw it on the floor. knocked the ...

Published: Monday 18 January 1909
Newspaper: Eastern Evening News
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 64 | Page: 2 | Tags: none