DARTMOOR PRISON.
RECENT MUTINY. PRECAUTIONS~STILL TAKEN. Received January 27, 8.5 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 26. A hundred steel-helmeted soldiers were rushed from Plymouth to Dartmoor late last night with four machineguns, which were posted round Prince Town prison, the scene of Sunday’s mutiny. The roads were barricaded and cars stopped because of a suspicion that friends of the prisoners would ho waiting with motor-cars to aid escapees. The Home Secretary has appointed Mr Herbert Du Parcq, K.C., Recorder of Bristol, to hold an immediate inquiry into the whole of the circumstances connected with the disorder. He will bo assisted by Dir AlexanderPatterson, one of His Majesty’s Prison Commissioners.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 48, 27 January 1932, Page 7
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107DARTMOOR PRISON. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 48, 27 January 1932, Page 7
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