The Story of Dartmoor Prison

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The prisoners were immediately removed from the three prisons contained in the south yard to the prisons in the north enclosure, but nothing being known about the tunnel from No. 4, which stood in a yard by itself, the prisoners in that building were DARTMOOR PRISON 159 left undisturbed. The shaft in No. 5 prison was then filled up with large stones.
They were kept in No. 2 until the 8 th September when, owing to the bad state of the roof, they were again sent back to the south yard. On the lot
...h a large draft, chiefly composed of British bluejackets who had claimed their discharge as Americans, was received from Chatham, and the prisoners were alarmed lest they should be sent to No. 6, and should incautiously betray the existence of the tunnel before they could be warned. But the new- comers, together with all the whites in No. 4, were ordered into No. 7, and No. 4 was given up to the blacks. The prisoners now convened a secret court of inquiry to discover who had betrayed them and several suspected persons were arraigned.^ It was well that the evidence was not thought strong enough to warrant the taking of a man's life, for when they had had time for calm reflection they accepted the suggestion that the betrayal had been accidental through a few unguarded words used in 1 The evidence was particularly strong against a man named Bratt, belonging to the United States brig Argus, who was believed to have betrayed the scheme by some unguarded remark to one of the turnkeys.

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