“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try and try again,” this could well be a motto of one John Michael Gasken, a prisoner serving time at Dartmoor Prison. In the February of 1931, he along with another prisoner, John Mullens effected an escape from the prison. Both remained at …
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In the December of 1881 John Bray from Chudleigh, then aged 59, was arrested and charged with stealing some horse hair along with other items from an outhouse at Bickington. That same month he appeared at Ashburton Assizes charged charged with the offences and was committed for trial at the …
Read More »It is reputed that Charles Ross was one a the very few Dartmoor prisoners who ever managed to escape and get completely away from penal servitude at the prison. In the mid 1800s Charles Ross, a landowner, was sentenced to serve seven years in Dartmoor Prison for robbery with violence. …
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Let me take you back to Princetown on the morning of Tuesday the 4th of June 1907. It’s ten o’clock and Princetown is suddenly engulfed in a shroud of thick Dartmoor fog – nothing new there then. Through this opaque wall of mist can be heard the sound of horse’s …
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Legendary Dartmoor The many aspects past and present of Dartmoor
