... DARTMOOR PRISON. A contemporary relates the following :—Ws were going lebiurely up the road, when I law a man a dark coat landing on the tau.k with a gun in the hollow of his arm, looking at eoruetbing beneath him in the field, and basing the appearance ...

... FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION AT DARTMOOR PRISON. handi fact, the _this ships Sria They A SHOCKING explosion occurred whilst blasting in connection with some quarrying operations was in progress at Dartmoor Prison on Monday. A hundred convicts had been told off ...

... RECAPTURE OF AN ESCAPED CONVICT. John Bray, 63, 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. As he had formerly lived in ...

... UOTge Woodcock, l.a. Maatoy, alia. Matthew WfUiMn.on, .bar George Jolinton, alia. Bjgi.nmnd, . comnrt. No 2 753, from Dartmoor prison. He was tried for steallog boot. Mid working tool.. »t Iho Derby ksmoos, on lb. 3rd January, and Mnttnood to one calendar ...

... take almost unexampled interest in the Tiohborne case, from the Claimant, now nerlegoing his term of penal • ride in Dartmoor Prison. They were forwarded to Mr. Onslow on the 4th Inst., by the Governor, who, in accordance with the rules of the convict ...

... and these are all Molted. medans. But we manage these things better at lieetland Yard. Morgan, the convict who escaped Dartmoor Prison, has been captured near Plympton. He had eenesaled his con►iot's drrn b 7 an old long o►ereoat of which he had obtained ...

... are not given, but I had dealings with six of these gentlemen, and in only one instance —that of Mr. Basil Thompson, of Dartmoor Prison, now a Governor, a kind, courteous, and sympathetic gentleman was the Deputy • civilian. Twenty years ago the proportion ...

... winter of 1827 I was to measure this, though not by experience, to the full. There were forty-six different gangs in Dartmoor Prison. hardest worked parties were those employed in reclaiming bog-land for the Duchy of l'oniwall. The rocky state of the ...

... nnleae the Coeaminkoeis tednoed the peenity. A Flyaonth oorreepondent write*: The dal* of the Übtratkm of the Claimant bon Dartmoor Prison will bo dsteied in oanaeqoanee of hie harfaig bean pnnieiMd for breach of dlaeiplln& Ho has, eoaseqnently. tort his pririlegs ...

... it was 40 year. sip some he was in the allay. A further letter stated that prisoner showed no signs insanity while in Dartmoor prison from 1996 to 1900. The Judge rehd other letAera, and the at Dr. Morrison on priseasts ecmditioo. The letters referred ...

... retreat he applied to see the Director, and communicated enough to that official to ensure Warder --'s removal from Dartmoor Prison. I hear that the man is still in the service. I hope, for the credit of the Home that such is not the case. Flogging is ...

... enough did not arrive at hie home until the day on which he died. Between the Boer War and Greet War he was a warder at Dartmoor Prison, and had in his gang the famous John Lee, the man they could not bang. One of the deceased's greatest attributes was his ...