Cold Blooded Murder - When Pearl Gamble Rejected Robert McGladdery, Lust Turned to Rage. This is the True Story of Her Cruel, Vicious Murder

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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. I think now it probably turned the girls off me too. There had to be some reason. I wasn’t such a bad-looking guy. 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). Sergeant Gibson gave evidence of several timed journeys by bicycle and on foot from the Orange Hall (on Downshire Road) to both McGladdery’s home (Damolly Terrace) and Upper Damolly crossroads (these destinations being about a kilometre apart as the crow flies but further via the Belfast Road and the Rathfriland Roads respectively).

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. He claimed that after leaving the dance hall he walked home alone by the Belfast Road. He had been in the witness box for almost six and a half hours in an attempt to save himself from the hangman’s noose. 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 We had occasionally caught furtive glimpses of another world, exciting but sleazy – a sex-driven, more dangerous world – in the pictures and columns of the Sunday newspapers our fathers read, but pretended not to, for they knew this pornographic material ought not to be placed within their children’s reach. Our angry mums disdained it too, and castigated our fathers for bringing such rags as the Sunday People and The News of The World into their homes.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.

everyone was behaving, he was wearing a light suit. He had stolen a bicycle belonging to John McClenachan and ridden to Damolly There were 13 witnesses and although some disagreed about the exact colour all agreed that it was a "light suit". So Japan had spent much of the early 20th century modernizing its economy and its military. So basically they wanted to build an empire sort of like that of Great Britain the United States and from that they could extract natural resources, exploit labor and build new trade routes and become one of the world's great powers. They separated temporarily but met again in Hollywood‘s in the early evening. Then they moved to Magee’s in Merchants’ Quay. They moved again to the Royal British Legion Hall at the corner of Monaghan and Catherine Streets. They were much the worse for wear when they finally arrived at the Orange Hall, about an hour after Pearl Gamble’s entrance. Older brothers of s ome of the older lads of our gang – and friends they knew across the town – were acquainted with Robert McGladdery, or with those who knew him.

After a long search the police found the light-coloured waistcoat and overcoat inside a pillowcase hidden in a septic tank not far from the murder scene. 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. McGladdery’s description of what he was wearing that night and what time he left the dance didn’t match with other witness accounts. After hearing five days of evidence at the trial of Robert McGladdery for the murder of Pearl Gamble, the all-male jury returned a guilty verdict. They took just forty minutes to reach this conclusion. her, then threw her dead body into a clump of bushes.” Lord Justice Curran took two hours to deliver

prison, at 8 am. on the morning of Wednesday the 20th of December 1961. Prison surgeon, Dr Girvan, certified Constable Thom testified that on Sunday January 29 th he had a conversation with the defendant before an electric fire sitting in the Head Constable’s office of Newry Police Station. In further explanation he stated that the previous day he had been at Upper Damolly with Head Constable O’Hara where Robert McCullough (the man who first raised the alarm the previous morning when he discovered torn and discarded clothing in the vicinity) pointed out to them a bicycle lying in a field on the Belfast Road side of the Damolly Crossroads – where Damolly and Upper Damolly Roads meet and just yards from the Gamble home. The bicycle was taken possession of by Sergeant John Berry for expert examination of it. When found the lighting switch of the dynamo was in the off position. At 8 am on Wednesday 20th December – just five days before Christmas – Robert McGladdery became the last man to hang for murder in Northern Ireland. a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Strolling+home+from+the+local+dance%2c+Pearl+was+stabbed%2c+beaten+and...-a060160265

dancehall at 1.50 am. and was wearing a dark suit. Witnesses said he left at 1.30 am. and according to P.C. Adams, who had looked in to see that 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. 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’. After Michael Campbell’s visit, there was only one topic of conversation in every Newry home. And it was unsuitable for nuns’ ears.

MLA style: "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.." The Free Library. 1999 MGN LTD 29 Nov. 2023 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Strolling+home+from+the+local+dance%2c+Pearl+was+stabbed%2c+beaten+and...-a060160265 Five days before Christmas, he was hanged in Crumlin Road Jail in Belfast, the last person in these islands to die by capital punishment. He was mourned by few. I was in town to buy The New Musical Express. My ‘pay’ went on this every week, and there was very little left over. And it was at a dance on 27th January 1961 in an Orange Hall in Newry where she would spend the last few hours of her life. Pearl went to the dance with a few friends. Robert’s older brother Sam would go hunting with me and my dogs. Robert would come too or come round to my house to stay. I liked him. He was an unfortunate lad.

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There was silence in the courtroom as McGladdery uttered his final words to the court, “But I would say one thing. There is no man in the court that can say I killed Pearl Gamble because I didn’t. I am innocent of that crime. That is all I have to say.” I was obsessed with the new pop music, now universally transmitted to working class homes, for even in our penury we could afford to buy wireless sets. These tunes lend a common bond to teenagers everywhere. Our tiny world became global. 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.