DARTMOOR MUTINY

Wairarapa Daily Times, 14 March 1932, Page 6

DARTMOOR MUTINY

TWO CONVICTS CHARGED.

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL,

LONDON, Saturday

Thomas Davis ancl David Brown, convicts in Dartmoor Prison, were charged respectively at Tavistock with wounding Officer Ernest Birch and with having attempted to wound Officer Arthur Edy. It was stated in evidence that Davis was in the exercising yard on January, when ho 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 said he could not say how many convicts had been flogged through his reports. liis losing count was not due to their number. . Medical evidence stated that Davis s r ib was found to be broken after the mutiny. . , .. Further evidence was given to the effect that Brown slashed at Udy with a razor blado attached, to a stick, when Udy entered the cell after having been defied to take Brown out on 24th January, the day of the mutiny. Two other officers helped to overpower Brown, who was batoned on the head and carried to hospital insensible. Both accused were committed for trial.