ALL QUIET AT DARTMOOR
SHIVERING WITH COLD. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at IUS a.m.) LONDON, January 25. All convicts at Dartmoor were confined to their cells to-day and the guards were trebled at the chief points on the prison walls. Troops were in readiness at Plymouth, but nothing happened. Tne newspaepi’s give prominence to Donovan’s rescue of Turner, publishing photographs of the convict and details of his last minute reprieve from death sentence in 1928, even alter the scaffold had been erected. Correspondents are already suggesting Donovan’s release for bravery and offers of employment are being made. The poor quality of the food, dampness of the cells and general treatment are the chief grievances of the convicts whose incendiarism brought its own punishment, the destruction of the heating system, causing them to shiver in their cells on one of the season’s frostiest mornings. It is freely suggested that the! amount of liberty that allowed the prisoners to mingle in the yards and grounds enabled the plot to break out at the exact moment, nd enabled the collection of weapons.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19320126.2.52
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1932, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
184ALL QUIET AT DARTMOOR Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1932, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in