... AFFRAY AT DARTMOOR PRISON. A desperate astault was made on a warder at the convict establishment at Princet.,wp on Wedneedey. A gang of convicts who had been ergaged at drainmte and reclamation work on the prison farm were mustered and interrogated as ...

... • COIVICT YILL=D •T LAATMOuI An explosion occurred during quarrying operation. at Dartmoor Prison on Monday. A hundred convicts had been told off for blasting purposes under the superintendence of Principal Warder Moore, with Mr. Bodiner second in command ...

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

... CONVICT'S DESPERATION. A convict named Donovan was found haat/- int( in his cell at the Dartmoor Prison at Pnncetown. Be bad torn off a portion of his sheet and, using it as a rope, hanged himself to the ventilator. Warder Douch, who made the discovery ...

... on the Great Western line between Reading and Twyford. It appears that 13 convicts were under orders of removal from Dartmoor prison to Chatham, and were fastened to each other by the hands with the usual irons and chains, and they were all orderly and ...

... CONVICTS ATTACK WARDERS. Two attacks on warders are reported from Dartmoor Prison. A convict named Chuter, who had been reported by Assistant Warder Gumery for excessive talking, sprang at him and struck him twice on the neck and face. He was seized and ...

... ESCAPED CONVICTS SENTENCED. The two convicts who escaped from Dartmoor Prison at the commencement of the month— William Walker and Walter Parrish—were at Devon Assizes on Wednesday sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. The men not only pleadedilty to ...

... EXCITING EXPERIENCES. After a pursuit lasting 84 hours Walter Sitrester, the convict who escaped from Dartmoor Prison, was captured at daybreak on Monday morning at Roborougb, on the southern fringe of the moor. The capture was effected by Warders Hodge ...

... by Drury, who afterwards, for various offences, suffered three terms of seven years' penal servitude. When he was in Dartmoor prison Mrs. Drury beard that he had died, and wrote to the authorities to inquire. In return she received a certificate of his ...

... upon security being given fur costa. LE OP AN ESCAPED CONVICT. John Bray, (13, undergoing five years' penal servitude at Dartmoor Prison for housebreaking, and who effected his escape about eight days ago, was recaptured on Monday afternoon at Lustleigh. ...

... found on the railway at Todnambnry, near Sawbridgeworth. Thirty-five prisoners have received the rite of soarmation in Dartmoor Prison chapel. THREE DAYS' SIEGE. CORNWALL SENSATION. The little village of St. Blarey, Cornwall. has been the scene of • regular ...

... WARDER SAVAGELY ASSAULTED. A serious care of assault upon warden is reported from Dartmoor Prison. A large party of convicts had been engaged in the stone-dressing shed under the charge of Warder A..ucse and Assistant Warder Brennan. The latter had occasion ...