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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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. a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Strolling+home+from+the+local+dance%2c+Pearl+was+stabbed%2c+beaten+and...-a060160265 McGladdery was a brazen and arrogant young man. The police took him in for questioning and later released him, confident that he would soon lead them to the hiding place of items missing from the murder scene.

Miss Gamble had been to a dance at the Henry Thompson Memorial Orange Hall on the Downshire Road in Newry the night before her death. Pearl Gamble's final resting place in Riverside Graveyard in Newry. Photograph: Columba O'Hare Our 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. APA 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.. (n.d.) >The Free Library. (2014). 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.

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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). 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.

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. Taylor had a choice between firing squad and lethal injection but chose bullets because "I didn't want to lay on the table and flip around like a fish out of water". Death by lethal injection is usually the execution of choice for both states and killers. Dana Ray Edmonds was the first to die this way in Virginia a year ago, 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. When McGladdery was transferred to the condemned man’s cell in Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast it was several weeks before the sentence was carried out. The cell, a sparse open room just contained a table and chair and a bed. Two guards would also have been present in the cell at any given time, to ensure that the prisoner didn’t self harm! 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 madeMcGladdery had spent a couple of periods in borstal training and had a record of sexual and physical abuse of young women; he also had a conviction for stabbing a man in Newry. 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. All were for murder. There were twelve executions at Crumlin Road prison, Belfast, three at Derry and one at Armagh. (A total of seventeen men were hanged at Crumlin Road prison between 1854 & 1961).