The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-07-08 00:00:00

OUTBREAK AT THE CONVICT PRISON.

1500 °eerie:is—saes who are doubly and
trebly el —onffering the penalties of the low, it is
Sot • TORII/WA) thing that fross time to time outrages
011•111- that premiers ehosid 1461111 k their keepirs, that
illeseditioned felons should quarrel with :sae another,
and Usk now and aisle *se should attempt to move,
although nothing but Ignorance of the difilenltios to he
overcome or sheer tiesperstios, could iodate • man to
fees the dangers it involve: with It. uesdi probstglistas
of eneeme. Within • few days, And duriag the tem-
porary abloom of the Governor, there have been it,..
mating erode at the prison—au attsak on • warder,
a quarrel brew:toe two etavlots resulting In the death
of the aggraewar, Lad a fruitless attempt to moans by a
prisoner. Time are the dotal/a :
SURDIOIOI7II IMAM? ON • railloll VIA/Dlll..
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About 1.40 pin. on Friday a warder nomad Edwin
Crow was In charge of • party of 24 prisoners employed
in quarrying and dr,wing Aone in th• Govanment
Qoarriee, whoa he was smutted by ono of them who
bed that day 00010 Olit of tbe minatory cells. The
0111cor had just given him • new pick shaft and ordered
him to get • Dew pick and put it on and promad atone
dremdag, which the primmer went to do and had
needed from the officer about • mor, when he gam
tie ..ardor • tremendous baok.handed blow with the
pick shaft, on the left side of his Ism, and immediately
tenet round and streak him on the eft Wept., but
fortonanly DOW lolled the °direr, who, for the
instant laiied with blood, made • leap over some
rough doses sear, to eadearour to gain tune to draw
his award to defend hissaad agaiest his samailant, who
was dill foaming him eloaely. The calmer OR turning
head the prisoner toe (dose on him to draw Ms sword,
so be made • Rib at bias, closed with him, and suo-
*sided in throwing him ce I he grand, when other
assistance mine, both diners and premien •rim
pick .eds Is • piece of Wm or ash about 311. or 311.
6i5. to ingth, 21n. in diameter at one rod, and about
1 Inch in diameter at the other—a dangerous wespou
In snob hand..

=CA PI ND IIiOAFTIIII OF • PllllO/1111.
Os Monday evening than was eonaldarable szetteutrat
In the neighbourhood of the Prism, as amount of the
dimmery that • omelet had ssesped. • party of
bad been at wk under Assistant- warder
atvrat or
the Etat aide of the Term, where they
were blowing away and lowaritig the alit!. It
menu they have to amend • ladder to ffet toot to the
top, and when they did so about half-past lire, Groves
disarmed that the man was relardag. Mr. G. Caftan,
the goveraer, was sway ea ham at the time, and the
=was in charge of Depar,-governor Capt. Salter.
eh force was instantly on the alert., the alarm
gun was fired, the black flag was hoisted at the V•11•P,
and down rushed an assisteat warder, staff In lucid,
to give btformatiec to the polio,. Bergs. Plantain
turned oat the lett*, Immodiehtly, mid formed • lbw
wren the Pebble Brook a picquet of soldiers lauseit
Moly west eat to the Ferry Bridge, and stretched
mese the Beech there, sad the Omit-guard Seek charge
ef the mat, to provost WI Dna tasking wimps in •
beat, white in ore he was already on tie water the
baste of the licianiew WWI lowered and rowed guard all
mad to erre any beet In which lat might he. Tito
warders, all that scald be spored, were ordered to the
stank sad all the midair, in tits island, whether on
leers or net, were called in and • thoreagb Dearth eon-
reenoid sad marled on. All that sight there Imre no
taws of him diamond nor any the next day.
Groves conlidently allinned that be saw the lasa Ise
melanges Ware he was wbed. 'Ate minvlet's is,.. is
Bari Bee, alias Jai* Hillman, ha le a erns yea&
van; his height lastly Mt. 2.115., he hoe light km
reward
arrj eyes, fresh eemplemen, gad la aged 21. •
ES was offered far MI 119Preimmelim Bor was
suppled to be la the piton dram. Sept. Hare was
mos at the Primo, sad be est the County pollee In all
dketelleee ea the welsh.
The .9.4.1 Isp ims dimmed sheet half-peel sem
so Tom* Iff be aft ad th• Wits dos• both.

spot where he was mimed. Ilk said Ilia lite Oise in
which be was found rues some headed yerdm leht the
rook, and that Ray took advemtage of his poultice to
assail his dimooverms with stomas, wad be was get out,
mad plea, d in ware custody.
The discovery of the "motet was rasa by a fellow-
',deeper in the same gang basis& "prosbed." The
man edema. II lb., Could take bin to a certain plats,
that be would And Ray. • number of warders went
to the place, and one was lowered down by ropes into
a galley or chasm ; but even then he soak sot dad the
prisoter. It appears that inside the galley use seethes
chamber which was mashed by climbing up some dis-
tance over a ruing part of the resod sad whoa s moan
wits inside tbe interreaine ironed affeeteally hid hlm,
As the werdere were Woking of rottrisg, assiefent-
warder Lambert was saluted with • Moue oa tha baud'
this led to scarab and the dlaoovery of the WWI
ebetober, out of which the little 'elitist was hauled in
an oceeremoolous 61112/Vit. It is thought likely that
the stone was kicked down by Ray to his endeavour to
get away; but In the place where he got there were 8
lushes of soil over his bead. No doubt bad 'bard been
a good chance of getting off the Leland, Ray would have
oontrived means to get out of his hole.