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Blow Them Up. Britain's prisons have for years made humanitarians blush, but somehow Parliament has never got around to doing much about them. What Herbert Morrison said of Dartmoor-"The only thing to do with Dartmoor is to blow it up"-could be said about Pentonville, Wandsworth, Brixton, Wormwood Scrubs and just about all the others. Many are more than a century old, built for treadmill labor and solitary confinement. Bleak Dartmoor itself was. built in 1808 for French prisoners of war, has changed little since the War of 1812 when it held 2,000 captive American seamen...
Serving time in Dartmoor Prison, Hume was frequently visited by Pic Assistant Editor Fred Redman, who suspected there was a bigger story still untold?" Redman was right. After leaving Dartmoor in February, Hume agreed to give the Pic a full confession. Pic Reporter Victor Sims took Hume to a country hotel overlooking the Thames estuary where the body was dropped. Hume lay on a bed, stared up at the ceiling, and calmly described how he killed and chopped up Setty. Recalls Sims: "It was the most terrifyingly bloody day of my life...
...blanks to fill out, got them back with a note from Corke scribbled on the back: "I do not need these cards. I haven't worked for 14 months. I get my living by thieving." As credentials, he could and did cite 23 convictions, two turns in Dartmoor Prison, and the invention of the "jump-up"-an athletic hijacking technique accomplished by jumping from the hood of a moving car over the tail gate of a truck just ahead...
Despotism & Love. Baring-Gould spent the last 43 of his 90 years at Lew Tren-chard, a manorial estate on the western edge of Dartmoor, on which he inherited the position of squire from his father. The Trenchard vicarage was at the squire's disposal, and Baring-Gould nominated himself .for' the job. As squarson, he combined physical and spiritual responsibility for his tenants in a delicate balance of despotism and love. Most mornings he made calls on his parishioners, among whom, says Author Purcell. "there was not a house he did not know, nor one in which...
...First? In Nottingham. England, Prison Commissioner Duncan Fairn complained that girls who wait outside infamous Dartmoor Prison to see prisoners are giving the place a bad name...