DARTMOOR RIOTS
SPECIAL ASSIZE OPENED.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
LONDON, April 26,
A special assize, convened for the trial of twenty-nine convicts on March 31, opened at the village of Princetown, adjoining the Dartmoor prison, before Justice Finlay, wdio is protected by armed guard. A large dock with steel bars has been erected in the Town Hall, and police reinforcements watched for suspicious characters among the spectators.
PRISONER'S -EVIDENCE. (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, April 26. Davis was charged with stabbing Birch on lltli March. Birch in evidence said lid had been four times assaulted. He denied crue’ty or vindictiveness 'towards the convicts. He occasionally cautioned Davis for noisiness, but had not reported him, Davis giving evidence denied threatening to murder Birch, lie declared Birch made life a misery for all twentyone of them, and having a go at me because -I complained of rotten tea. I have been “down below” twenty-one times since I went to Dartmoor in 1930 and had done eightv-one days on bread and water. Once I argued with the Governor, when sentenced to puniehnie ana stuck their finge,s in my eves.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1932, Page 5
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