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He saw him stand for a minute or two and look around him. He then walked into the river which was swollen at the time and crossed to the other side. The water came up to his chest and he had both arms extended above him while crossing. When he reached the far bank the Constable saw him walk across some more fields until he reached the canal which he crossed by means of a footbridge. He went into a partly-demolished house, stayed there about five minutes and when he came out, the witness saw him begin to walk along the towpath towards Newry. Witness’s view was then obstructed by the Damolly factory. Witness then saw Special Constable Crawford’s car coming from the Newry direction. A BBC Northern Ireland dramatisation of the case, Last Man Hanging, was broadcast on 8 September 2008. [2] McGladdery was portrayed by Michael Condron. [3] I mentioned this case in a blog about the death penalty last November and here is the chance to review it on the small screen. Many states are abandoning the electric chair in favour of injection which makes the death penalty more palatable to the public. But there really is no serious debate about the morality of capital punishment.
The murder investigations led to McGladdery. When interviewed he stated to have worn a dark blue suit but other people at the dance said he wore a light-coloured one. He was put under surveillance and was discreetly seen to go to some undergrowth on 10 February 1961. The following day, the police discovered, inside a pillow case in a septic tank, an overcoat, a waistcoat and a handkerchief, all of which were heavily bloodstained. McGladdery was arrested on the same day. [1] His trial caused a level of controversy rarely seen in Northern Ireland at the time. After the conviction there was a prolonged “will he, won’t he hang?” debate as many, previous convicted murderers had been granted appeals. McGladdery was dressed in a light blue suit. He approached the band and requested that they play Elvis’s current release, ‘It’s Now or Never’. There were a total of sixteen executions in the north of Ireland during the 20th Century, all of these were for murder. Twelve executions took place at Crumlin Road Jail, three at Derry and one at Armagh. The speech came after a jury had returned a guilty verdict on the seventh day of his trial on October 16 1961.Where the public once saw the death penalty as a deterrent to crime, now many also want a life for a life, according to Richard Dieter, head of the Death Penalty Information Centre in Washington. "What is spurring this is the perception that crime is out of control. It was only the night before that McGladdery would have heard that he was due to hang the following day. His mother and a clergyman would have been the last visitors to his cell bar the hangman Harry Allen. Mr Allen’s career as a hangman spanned 41 executions and he assisted at 53 others. Reputedly he always wore a bow tie at the executions as a sign of respect and claimed he always slept peacefully on the nights before and after a hanging! It was to be many months later before all the evidence came together at McGladdery’s trial. The defendant alleged that he left the dance near its end at about 1.50 am and it was evident to all that he could not have walked to Damolly cross-roads in time to intercept the victim who got a lift in a car and probably arrived there very shortly after 2 am. He alleged that he saw Pearl get into a car ‘with two boys’ but no other witness testified to seeing him there and then. The vast resources of the United States power, raw materials, industrial production all had to be mobilized to meet the demands of total war. These servicemen were usually sensitive to our needs and tolerant of us, despite the fact that kaddy was mostly restricted to the road, where the hard surface made raising the wooden object easier than from the soft adjoining ‘greens’.
Albert Browne, a member of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), was found guilty of killing a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in October 1972 for which he was sentenced to death but this was later commuted to life imprisonment. Pearl Gamble. She worked in Foster Newells department store in Margaret Square. My aunt taught her at Newry Technical College and said she was a `nice, quiet wee girl.` There are two existing photograph of her. One, taken at a party shows a vivacious, gap-toothed girl, ordinary and of her time. In the second photograph she looks oriental, full of mystery. Something of death in the oriental ideal, the sexual stakes raised as high as they can go.She had left home for a dance in the Henry Thompson Memorial Orange Hall in Downshire Road, in the company of two friends, Rae Boyd and Evelyn Gamble – who was a friend but no relation. that crime. That is all I have to say.” Initially he was to have been hanged on November the 7th. However he appealed his conviction which was Chicago style: The Free Library. S.v. Strolling home from the local dance, Pearl was stabbed, beaten and strangled in a savage frenzy; Casual chat with friend was to expose a horrific murder.." Retrieved Nov 29 2023 from https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Strolling+home+from+the+local+dance%2c+Pearl+was+stabbed%2c+beaten+and...-a060160265
A search party was organised after a man out walking discovered some of Pearl’s ripped clothes scattered around a field. There was a lot of circumstantial evidence and witnesses involved in the case, although no one actually saw the killing. The point of what clothes McGladdery had been wearing on the night of the murder was investigated in great detail during the trial - in particular, the articles of clothing which corresponded in description to those which witnesses claimed McGladdery had been wearing at the dance and were subsequently found hidden in a septic tank (close to the scene of the murder). The murder investigations led to McGladdery. When interviewed he stated to have worn a dark blue suit but other people at the dance said he wore a light-coloured one. I lived in Damolly at the time. For ten or twelve years. I was married to a Damolly woman, a Taylor. There are many reports on the murder in circulation but suffice to say here that Robert McGladdery also had been at the dance and when questioned had admitted dancing with her during the course of the night. What exactly happened afterwards will likely only ever be known to himself.the prosecution with James Brown defending. 13 witnesses were called to tell the jury what McGladdery I wish I could get my hands on the boy that done this, you wouldn’t have to deal with him,” McGladdery told the police. Suspicion soon pointed towards McGladdery, but when interviewed by the police he was adamant he had nothing to do with her death He found it took 8 minutes 10 seconds to cycle to McGladdery’s home: just over 20 minutes to Damolly crossroads by the longer Belfast Road route; and 15 minutes 40 seconds via Church Avenue and Rathfriland Road; using Windsor Avenue it could be done in 15 minutes. Walking times for the comparable routes were 14 minutes odd to McGladdery’s home; 44 minutes via Belfast Road to Damolly crossroads; and 30 minutes and 27 minutes 35 seconds for the latter-named routes. The abandoned bike had also been spotted by farm labourer Bob McCullough who was fitting gates to a field near to the Upper Damolly Road cross-roads. The two men exchanged words and comments on the finds before bidding farewell to one another.
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