PRISON PLOT
EX-DARTMOOR MEN INVOLVED. ” I [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT,] LONDON, July 1. Dartmoor convicts, who were transferred since the mutiny there, are believed to have been behind a plot at Newport (Isle of Wight) gaol, - which might have resulted in the release of fifty prisoners. The gaol officials, as the result, of a hint from a prisoner, discovered a rope ladder, files, hammers, iron bars and ring ladders. The ringleaders are stated to -have admitted that they intended to fire the gaol and then scale the walls.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 July 1933, Page 5
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