DARTMOOR CONVICTS

Southland Times, Issue 21652, 14 March 1932, Page 5

DARTMOOR CONVICTS

WARDERS ATTACKED WITH RAZOR BLADES. COURT SEQUEL TO MUTINY. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, March 11. Thomas Davis and David Brown, convicts at Dartmoor, were charged respectively at Tavistock with wounding Officer Ernest Birch ami attempting to wound Officer Arthur Udy. It was stated in evidence that Davis, when exercising on January 22, jumped on Birch, whose back was turned, and slashed his cheeks with a razor blade inserted in a stick. Birch, assisted by other officers, overpowered him. Birch could not say how many convicts had been flogged through his reports. His losing count was not due to their number. Medical evidence showed that Davis’s rib was found to be broken after the mutiny. Brown slashed at Udy with a razor blade attached to a stick when Udy entered his cell, after having been defied, to take Brown out on January 24. Two other officers helped him to overpower Brown, who was struck on the head with a baton and taken to hospital insensible. Both accused were committed for trial. The mutiny occurred on January 24.