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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The vast resources of the United States power, raw materials, industrial production all had to be mobilized to meet the demands of total war. In Utah, firing squads are a reminder of the Mormon belief in blood atonement. Officials in the western state wish for a more modern image, and a move is afoot to ban firing squads. But it is the method, not the practice, that is being questioned. Utah does not like embarrassing publicity.

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).

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. They walked to town and did a bit of a pub crawl, Hollywoods, Magees and St Catherine’s Club and the British Legion where they arrived at 10.20 and left at 11.15 for the Orange Hall. Cissie McGladdery worked in Damolly Mill. So the children were often enough on their own. I often tried to talk some sense into the boy. Lord Justice Curran took two hours summing up. The courtroom was crowded and many more stood outside unable to gain admittance. After 40 minutes of deliberation the all-male jury brought in a guilty verdict.

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.

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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. ROBERT McGLADDERY killed Pearl Gamble after a dance in Newry, Co Down, over 30 years ago. Newry people turned out to cheer and jeer as the police searched for the body, just as many years later Angelinos would crowd the California freeways to gawk at a White Bronco. 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.” Now for the first time, using never-before-seen police evidence and private court papers, BBC Northern Ireland tells the story. mother was able to identify the clothes. The body was finally found at 4.50 pm. that afternoon, naked except for