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...Although I was under prison regime the conditions seemed to me better than those I witnessed once on a visit to Dartmoor. The cell to which I was taken . . . was really a moderately sized room, with table and bed but no chair...
Scene is the blasted heath of Phillpotts' beloved Dartmoor. Lady Macbeth is Avis Ullathorne, a strapping country wench with a shrewd mind, nerves of steel. Macbeth is Peter Bryden, a fine upstanding man to look at but with a fatal flaw in him called conscience. Duncan is his older brother, owner of North Wood Farm and affianced to Avis. When Scotland Yard's Detective Midwinter arrives on the scene the murder has been done, the corpse hidden, all clues covered. Midwinter rightly suspects Peter and Avis but can find no evidence. Instead he sets traps. Burly Peter might...
Devonshire, pleasantest county in Britain, has a bleak centre. Midway between Plymouth and Exeter lies Dartmoor, a silent ocean of grey, treeless hills that support nothing but gorse, primroses in spring, and a few water-logged sheep. In its middle lies a grim, grey prison...
Trouble has been brewing at Dartmoor Prison for weeks. Long-term convicts are kept there, hollow-eyed men in grey, their uniforms patterned with the Broad Arrow of King George.* They did not like their food, they did not like their cells, and they had heard tales of bloody, partly successful prison riots in the U. S. In Exeter and Plymouth, police chiefs were warned to be ready. Householders living on the moor were enrolled as special constables. Early last week Home Secretary Sir Herbert Samuel visited the prison to inspect conditions for himself...
...During the War of 1812 Dartmoor Prison held some 2,000 U. S. sailors impressed from merchant and naval ships who preferred prison rather than serving against the U. S. They too had no sugar on their porridge. On April 6, 1815 they struck. Guards killed six. In memory of them is a stained glass window in the prison chapel...