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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a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Strolling+home+from+the+local+dance%2c+Pearl+was+stabbed%2c+beaten+and...-a060160265 He was sentenced to death. The execution date was set for 7 November but was delayed after McGladdery appealed. The appeal was unsuccessful. McGladdery’s case was the OJ Simpson trial of its day. Early on the morning of January 29 1961, a girl’s personal items were found strewn around a country crossroads, close to her home. One hundred policemen scoured the area. After 12 hours they made a grim discovery: the body of Pearl Gamble and within days Robert McGladdery was arrested. 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.

Towards the end of the evening Pearl and McGladdery danced together at least twice but it was obvious to others that Pearl was a reluctant participant. One witness at McGladdery’s subsequent trial stated that he ‘was trying to hold Pearl tightly towards him, his head bent down towards her face, but Pearl kept turning away from him’. 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. 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.” The sum total of all this evidence points in one direction only: that McGladdery on that early morning of January 28 th foully and deliberately murdered this young girl. The taking of her clothes suggests a sexual motive and although it is not necessary for the Crown to prove motive, you may come to the conclusion that passion started this affair. All my sympathy remains with the Gamble family – and to a lesser degree, the McGladdery family who were collectively stained with Robert’s crime.

In his absence, Pearl finished the night in the company of another boy. She bade goodnight to him outside and joined two girl-friends who had negotiated a lift home. 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. 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. Sociologists identify several factors which pushed the US off in a different cultural direction from other democracies when it resumed executions in 1977. A horrifying rise in crime in the last two decades (now in reverse) has hardened attitudes.

The probable answer was that he stole a bicycle and sped to the interception point as fast as he could. It could be cycled in about fifteen minutes. The fact that all this ran continuously through my fevered imagination will give you some idea of my innocence at the time. So because Japan are sort of anticipating this short war that's going to lead to negotiations their target selection focuses on the battleships which are going to prevent the U.S Pacific Fleet from coming out into Pacific and Southeast Asia and stopping the Japanese and they're not thinking about things like the fuel depots and the repair shops that are actually going to allow America to pursue a longer war in the Pacific. The shallow depths meant that any ships that sunk, they didn't sink far down so they were much easier to recover. Almost half of the deaths that day on the U.S side were from the USS Arizona when it was hit and exploded and the Imperial War Museum in London actually has a piece of the USS Arizona on display in its new Second World War galleries and this is actually the first time that part of the USS Arizona has been displayed outside of the United States. McGladdery was hanged in Crumlin Raid Gaol on 22nd December 1961. He vehemently maintained his innocence to the end. His QC, James Brown, also thought McGladdery innocent of the crime. His body was interred within the precincts of the prison.Then Mr McVitty of the Forensic Science Laboratory gave evidence from his examination of items recovered from the scene (and from the septic tank in a field on the Clougherammer Road close to Damolly village, yet to be referred to here). everyone was behaving, he was wearing a light suit. He had stolen a bicycle belonging to John McClenachan and ridden to Damolly His defence was conducted by Mr. James Brown Q.C. and Mr. Turlough O’Donnell (instructed by Luke Curran of Newry). Turlough O’Donnell , originally of Bridge Street Newry, later became Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland. It must have been his animated behaviour that drew our attention away from our normally all-consuming game. Patricia's body was found on the driveway of the Curran family home in Whiteabbey. She had been stabbed 37 times. From the start the whole thing stank to high heaven. Judge Lancelot Curran would not allow members of the family to be interrogated, nor the house to be searched. Suspicious circumstances, evasions and outright lies piled up. It would appear that Curran covered up the murder of his own daughter. It would also appear that he colluded in the conviction of an innocent man for the murder, a man who would have been hanged were it not for some collusive sleight of hand from his colleagues in the bar library.

It was suggested by the prosecution that this was significant. It was testified that he stood at the door, ‘wringing his hands’. He left the hall shortly afterwards, not waiting for the dance to finish.

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Deep down he was a decent lad. His father was dead. His mother was trying to raise four of them on her own. She was a decent, respectable woman. On Thursday they hanged a man in Smyrna, Delaware. Billy Bailey, a chubby man with glasses, had blasted a couple to oblivion with a shotgun. On the scaffold he closed his eyes, sniffed the cold wind and said nothing before the hood was placed over his head. A prison officer pulled a lever, the trap door opened, Bailey dropped. His body twisted in the wind before he was pronounced dead 11 minutes later. It was the first hanging in the state in 50 years. 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 went to the dance with his friend Will Copeland after a long drinking session. Witnesses said that Pearl danced with McGladdery twice that night.

McGladdery denied he had ever owned a light suit and claimed he wore a blue suit at the dance. He later tried to implicate his pal, Will Copeland, by claiming that he had loaned him some clothes similar to those which were discovered in the septic tank.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. 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. prison, at 8 am. on the morning of Wednesday the 20th of December 1961. Prison surgeon, Dr Girvan, certified 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 More than 150 petitions were sent to the cabinet offices at Stormont for the reprieve of Robert McGladdery.