Mrs Gamble gets dreadful news
Detective Sergeant Robert Knox testified that on January 28th (only hours after the murder) at 9.45 am he went to Pearl Gamble’s home with Head Constable O’Hara and other police.
It was the single most dreadful moment in Mrs Gamble’s life.
Remembering Tom Williams
Perhaps it’s just that I got into trouble, no matter what job or assignment I was given!
Strange hiding place
Some years later still I was interned along with my brothers Jack and Eugene (RIP).
McGladdery buys murder weapon
Woman Constable Elizabeth Ann McCance testified that she was on duty in plain clothes in
Boys Toys of the 50s
In an attempt to revitalise the toy industry after the end of World War I, the American Tootsie Toys company introduced a new range of innovative pocket-sized diecast toys in 1918. Tootsie’s success in the
McGladdery walks the route …
In an attempt to establish his alibi Robert McGladdery as suspect agreed to walk his alleged route home in the company of a policeman Head Constable Farrelly.
Screw in my pocket
I was a sentenced prisoner – for the ‘crime’ of carrying the national flag – but there were also internees over in D Wing. I knew and was known to many of them and had illicit communications with them. As a result I was able to obtain supplies that other Juveniles could not.
Brown’s Yard : End
The last cottage in the Brown’s Yard row, number four was the home of the Hamill family. After the houses in Brown’s Yard were condemned and demolished, the Hamills would move to the newly renovated housing at
Meadow: Helen’s Terrace
Helen’s Terrace in The Meadow was there long before the great housing estate was first constructed in the late 1940s. Indeed then they were the only homes in a kilometre radius – except for the isolated cottage of ‘Sticks’ Morgan’s people a little further along the Pighall Loanan.
In the bar in Kilkeel
Then one quiet day when I was about ten, I made my way into a public bar in Kilkeel because I thought no one was there.
McGladdery: Police witnesses
Police evidence concerning the tailing (and frequent interviewing) of McGladdery over the days and weeks following Pearl Gamble’s death continued to be given.
McGladdery as chief suspect
I was speaking to my friend Tommy Donaghy last evening about the Pearl Gamble murder and he too – like everyone of that era – has a strong memory of those few weeks after when McGladdery strutted the streets of the town basking in his new infamy.
Corr’s Field 1957: the ‘boat’
Down there close to Helen’s Terrace and near the bridge facing McClelland’s enclosure we each in turn pressed down with one hand on the strand of barbed wire atop the low stone wall that separated us from Corr’s Field and threw a leg over to the other side.