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DREADFUL OUTRAGES

... London conternporary call ac- tention to the atrocious assaults committed by convicts on the Warders and other officers in Dartmoor Prison. ILe says- On Tlsursday last Warder Rose, who was in b charge of 56 convicts employed iu trancting land, had n occasion ...

SATURDAY'S POLICE

... commiitted the murder had been discovered. On the nighb'of- the murder,' Thomas: 'Grime, of Chorley (norw a convict in Dartmoor. prison), 'was absent from home, and on the following morning, he had a strange watch, which he afterwards pasvned'; his brother ...

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

... adjourned, the jury being locked up for the night. PECAPTURE OF AN ESCAPED CONVICT William Bray, a convict who escaped from Dartmoor prison last Tuesday, and who has since been energetie&l:y chased by a large detachment of police and warders, was recaptured ...

THE MURDER OF A SOLDIER AT DEVONPORT

... festival ath this tm.e reminded then at the offertory would be devoted to the poor in the coming winter The chaplain of Dartmoor prison calls attention to the insufficiency of light in the cells of that establishment. He says that anywhere but at Dartmoor ...

THE INQUEST ON THE EXETER VICTIMS

... erlizee istediwardied. A- ii Stxpi bess.; ii-L ?? 1 4twiu Lua . Si^tt} ita &a'$ F X yassfgxas*^ TERRIBLE EXPL OS1ON AT DARTMOOR PRISON. An txplonion occurred doring quarrying operations 3it Dartrroor P;iso, yesterday. A hundred convicts had been told off ...

THE GAOL OF NEWGATE.—CRIME IN THE METROPOLIS

... occasionally urges the bae P greatest culprits to commit the foulest crimes. he 'he _, - . up. , . to f ATTEMIPTED MURDER AT DARTMOOR PRISON.- It of d will be recollected that we reported' a short time ago pal .- the trial of a lad named Riley, at Exeter, for ...

TIVERTON

... food, clothing, and ',ther property. The accused was alleged to have committed the offpncos after making his escape from Dartmoor Prison. He eluded the warders during the pre- valence of a dense fog, and a week elapsed before ho was recaptured. Ho wes committed ...

GOODWIN'S CAPTURE

... Princetown. Dartmoor, on Monday, on the body of William Caricr, aged 22, who was shot dead while eadeavosirieg to escape from Dartmoor prison falrm, with Martin and Goodwin, on Christml as eve. Mr. T. B. J. Prickmiai, the coroner, said the official report of the ...

THE POLICE COURTS

... 55certaining what had become of the horse. BOW STREET. John Mackey, alias Cotton, was charged with having es- caped from Dartmoor prison, being a convict under sentence of transportation. Thornton, a detective, and other witnesses, stated that the prisoner ...

PETTY SESSIONS REPORTS

... cause of A SLIGHTED SOLDIER. MUTINY OF CoNvroTSa-A serious mutiny occuomed on Friday afternoon among the convicts in Dartmoor Prison. A principal warder named Westlake was attacked by one of the prisoners, who called upon the others to join him. Westlake ...

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

... of transportatvo id to which he had been sente nced'. to It appeared from'the statement of one of the officeri of Zr. Dartmoor prison, that the prisoner and another ?? Id made their escape from tha t establishment. The prisolle othad been sentence4 to ...

THE STEPNEY MURDER

... incurable, In November, 1854.' His attack on mewas while crossing Dartmoor hills. On account.of the difficult road to Dartmoor prison it 'ase usual to let the conviets walk up one or two of the steepest hills. On this occasion, whileBwalking, they contrived ...