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DARTMOOR PRISON SCENES

... DARTMOOR PRISON SCENES. Dartmoor convict prison has been the scene of two more sensations. The officials are naturally reticent, but it has transpired that a convict named Chamberlain, whose cell had just been unlocked to enable him to go to his work ...

Published: Friday 22 January 1904
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NEW ATLANTIC LINE

... in the one ease, and between Philadelphia and London in the other. OUTBREAK AT DARTMOOR PRISON- Whilst a party of convicts were digging trenthe‘ in a bog near Dartmoor prison, a man, serving a life sentence, tried to strike an assistant warder named Murhy ...

Published: Friday 14 September 1900
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ESCAPED CONVICT RECAPTURED

... ESCAPED CONVICT RECAPTURED. Convict Wilson, who escaped from Dartmoor Prison, was captured at Walkhampton, site miles from Prineetown. in the direction of Plymouth, . kka/0114111, sight. GORDON BENNETT BALLOON RACE. The jadnecin the balloon ince for the ...

Published: Friday 06 November 1908
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BRITISH AEROPLANE RECORD

... customs dusk* amounting Jto £:M,000. CONVICT WHO ATE THE GOO§Ei„ Alfred Parrish, the convict who tw.igs escaped from Dartmoor Prison but waa.As-., captured on both occasions. has returned to that place from Portland. his last break for liberty Parrish ...

Published: Friday 02 December 1910
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE GENTLE CONVICT

... get within the prison walls. Mr. Basil Thomson. who says h.:. spent about seven years in Dartmoor, in The Story of Dartmoor Prison (Heinemann), relates the following picturesque incident: The convict will devote himself heart and soul to nursing and ...

Published: Friday 06 December 1907
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 259 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

IN THE PUBLIC EYE. A Ilirnmy Vrraux,

... iermerly is the Colonial service, and at, one time acted as Prune Minister of Tonga. Subsequently be was made Governor of Dartmoor Prison, a position which Imo vacated to become Governor of Wormwood ficrobbs Prison In 1107. His knowledge of the conditions ...

Published: Friday 27 June 1913
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 689 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

INNKEEPER'S WIFE'S DEATH

... on a sofa on the uigbt of her death. cosvrcrs DASH FOR LIBERTY. Yet another attempt to e , cape fnnn the clutches of Dartmoor Prison, but this time the prisoner's fn..loin was of very brief duration. The eimvicts had been working. as usual. in the hs ...

Published: Friday 21 July 1899
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 352 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TRANSVAAL AND SEA-ACCESS

... seditionists. FLOGGINGS FOR THREE CONVICTS. Convict William Hutchings. who savagely assaulted an assistant warder at Dartmoor Prison on August 3rd, has received thirty lashes. He will also lose all remission of sentence and wear the black dress and chains ...

Published: Friday 21 August 1908
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 425 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TAKES HERALD-

... e. who was serving a sentence of three years' penal servitude for burglary at Manibester, succeeded in escaping from Dartmoor Prison dories • fog and heavy rain on Friday afternoon. As a man of excellent character in prison Wilson was allowed to work ...

Published: Friday 06 November 1908
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 391 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MUTINY AT DARTMOOR

... have been the ringleader. The other prisoners were almost immediately secured. An inquest was opened on Monday, at the Dartmoor Prison, on the lssly of a prisoner named Bevan, who bad been shot by the warders while he was endeavouring to make hie serape ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1880
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 448 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LAKES HERALD, THE ROYAL TOUR

... with their party, eft later for Auckland. CONVICT'S' DASH FOR LIBERTY. Walter Silvester, one of two men who escaped from Dartmoor prison on Thursday, was on Sunday still at. large. A louse at Walkhampton, near florrabridge, occupied by a Mr. Wale, a wheelwright ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1901
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 661 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CHAPTUR XXX

... Dying—dying! Geoffrey dying ! Only ass idea was present to Dora and Sybil's mind, and that one idea was to hasten to Dartmoor Prison. there was irony in the knowledge that only the day before they had journeyed to Norwich with hope uppermost in their ...

Published: Friday 14 August 1908
Newspaper: Lakes Herald
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1484 | Page: 3 | Tags: none