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PRISONS AND PRISONERS

... againet the day of discharge, being then paid with pre. cautions. Those who are only fit for light labour are sent to Dartmoor Prison, which is in a highly oxygen- ized and bracing spot, and convicts unfit for labour have been hitherto sent to Lewes Invalid ...

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

... ESCAPE OF A CONVICT. A convict, who was engaged In drawing stones on the Tavistock road, about a quarter of a mile from Dartmoor Prison, made an attempt to escape on Saturday in broad daylight. When performing his last journey before dinner he unyoked himself ...

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 ...

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

... injury, let ATTEMPTEID ESCAPE BY A CONVICT. dii A Convic ,n:,tmei Lnaxton trades desperateattempt to escape ben from Dartmoor prison on Thursday night. He had been shut in in his cell for the night, apparently securely, there being Ea two feet of granite ...

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

... and appropriated the money thus obtained to his own- use. THE LATE ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR. The convict whose escape from Dartmoor Prison and re. capture caused so much trouble and anxiety lately, has been sentenced to have weights to the amount of 141b rivetted ...

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

... late hour bad not been apprehended. MURDEROUS ATTEMPT ON A PRISON WARDER. Another of those attacks on the warders of Dartmoor Prisons, which have of late been so frequent, was made on Tuesday by Michael Johnstone, undergoing penal servitude for life. ...