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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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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. His aunt Maud McGladdery lived beside us. I was more often away from home for I worked abroad at the time, at the steel-erecting.

her, then threw her dead body into a clump of bushes.” Lord Justice Curran took two hours to deliver That’s why I remember Pearl Gamble’s murder. Michael Campbell had news of the terrible event. She was the young woman who worked in Foster-Newells. Her younger sister was my paragon: the object of my desire and dreams.It was never meant to be a trilogy. Each book stands on its own. Nor does it set out to name the killer. In the end you find yourself deeper in the mystery. In the end the whole thing becomes about that photograph of Patricia, those eyes. The sombre, violated gaze. Haunted and haunting. dismissed after five hours of discussion. He further appealed for clemency to Brian Faulkner, the Home Affairs So this time the U.S responds by freezing all of Japan's assets in the United States and this prevents Japan from purchasing oil. And right after this is followed up by Britain and the Netherlands who control the Dutch East Indies imposing oil embargoes of their own. So in one fell swoop, Japan loses 94% of its oil supply. After the U.S.A's participation in the First World War they start to adopt an unofficial policy of non-interventionism and isolationism. So this basically means that they won't go to war for their allies, or even get into alliances in the first place, and they won't even provide aid either. And this actually starts to become official policy in the mid-1930s when the U.S congress starts to pass a series of neutrality acts. But as congress was passing these acts the world around the U.S was getting a lot more violent and unstable. Blue Is the Night was supposed to be about this case. How the idealist is confronted with a corrupt system and destroyed by it. How desire consumes men. The thoughts that ran through Lance Curran’s mind as he found himself in a Roman basilica at his son’s ordination. He had played his hand and now collected his bitter winnings – his daughter murdered, his wife in an asylum, his son a papish priest. A man trapped in his own deceit and folly.

Pearl Gamble was a pretty young shop girl. She lived at home in Upper Damolly with her parents and three sisters and would often go to dances with her friends. To make matters worse we were occasionally graced on Sunday afternoons with a social visit from a group of two to three Mercy Nuns, who believed it part of their Christian duty to express their support for growing Catholic families in their immediate neighbourhood. They were educating most of the girls of our families and I was delighted and amused by their visits. You see, I was beyond their power and influence, for they didn’t teach me. They were my sisters’ teachers. I had hordes of sisters, I don’t think then I knew just how many! And of course, I was constantly at war with my sisters. These nuns became my unwitting allies in our never-ending struggle for our parents’ attention. They would hurriedly and fussily scatter in search of schoolbags and unfinished homework at the nuns’ approach. 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). mother was able to identify the clothes. The body was finally found at 4.50 pm. that afternoon, naked except for motive and you may come to the conclusion that passion started this affair. Unrequited passion leading to hate and anger.” “On that lonely road this man madeOur game of kaddy was reluctantly abandoned as we followed the news-bearer from house to house, hoping not just to rehear the story being told, but to see the listeners’ reaction, and in the hope of hearing a previously missed detail. From the BBC's blurb: "In 1961 Newry man Robert McGladdery was convicted and executed for the brutal murder of local girl Pearl Gamble. His trial caused a media storm and proved a landmark in the debate on capital punishment in the United Kingdom. But I had a source of relief from my delusions and fantasies. I was still young enough to play the street games that dominated our life before the intrusion of television. 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.” Robert Andrew McGladdery (18 October 1935–20 December 1961) was the last person to be executed in Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland. [1]

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] 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. 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]McGladdery insisted that he was wearing a dark blue suit and left the dance at 1.50am. But witnesses said he left the dance around 1.30am wearing a light coloured suit. I was single and fancy-free again, and happy to be so, though I had plans. I had set my eye on a stunningly beautiful brown-eyed girl I had spied one Saturday, conversing with her older sister who worked in our only department store, Foster-Newells. 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! In a letter to the prison Governor, Rev Vance wrote “I wish to inform you that prior to the sentence of death being carried out upon Robert McGladdery; he accepted full responsibility for the death of Pearl Gamble. He also stated that he wished his confession to be made public.” 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.

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