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    1. Re: Dartmoor prison escapees Alfred James Healey and Halliday (nicknamed) 'razor slasher'
    2. Anne Chambers via
    3. Anne Chambers wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> Alfred James Healey and Halliday (nickname) 'Razorslasher' who escaped Dartmoor prison in the mid 1900's I >> have looked everywhere but the records can anyone help? or anything on Alfred James Healey. thankyou >> Also from The Times Saturday, Jan 22, 1955; pg. 6 "PRISONERS RECAPTURED Two men who escaped from Princetown (Dartmoor) prison yesterday were recaptured shortly before 1a.m. today after a British Road Services lorry crashed during a pursuit by police cars. Both the men were said to have been badly injured. The prisoners, John Thomnas Halliday, aged 32, and James Healey, aged 30, escaped from a working party inside the prison grounds, climbed the wall and got away onto the moor." -- Anne Chambers South Australia anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com

    02/05/2015 09:41:59