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Category: Prison

Victorian prison horror at Dartmoor – 1883

British News, Crime, Cruelty, Family History, Genealogy, Law, Old British News, Prison, Violence

Exeter Flying Post – Wednesday 18 April 1883 SCENE IN DARTMOOR PRISON. With a view of putting a stop to the murderous assaults that have recently been committed on warders by convicts at Dartmoor, the authorities, acting under directions from the Home Secretary, on the 10th instant, put Thomas Jones, a convict from Liverpool, upon […]

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