Dear Janet—Thanks for posting this very interesting (and timely, given events in the US) story. However, the newspaper and others are wrong in calling “pardon,” if an exoneration is what Gleeson actually (and, it seems, appropriately) was given. A pardon is given to someone who has committed a crime for which he was convicted. In this instance, It seems it was a wrongful conviction from which he was exonerated.—Tom On Jan 11, 2015, at 3:00 AM, cotipperary-request@rootsweb.com wrote: When replying to a message in the digest please do two things: 1. Change the 'Subject' to that of the message you are replying to. 2. Delete all the messages above and below the one you are concerned with. Thank You. Today's Topics: 1. 75 year old murder : Gleeson & McCarthy New Inn (Janet Crawford) 2. Re: 75 year old murder : Gleeson & McCarthy New Inn (Clare Tuohy) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 16:41:35 +0000 From: Janet Crawford <reojan@gmail.com> Subject: [COTIPPERARY] 75 year old murder : Gleeson & McCarthy New Inn To: cotipperary@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <CANOXhXazkUwdoWTfTmRfh7HwF=eTMsUrDRKVp2fQ4FGHC43ddg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 "Almost three quarters of a century after being sent to the gallows for a murder he had nothing to do with, Tipperary man Harry Gleeson is to become the first recipient of a posthumous pardon from the State [of Ireland]. In 1940, Mr Gleeson walked into a garda station in New Inn, Co Tipperary to report his discovery of a dead body. Moll McCarthy was lying in a field having suffered two shotgun blasts to the face." http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/irish-man-cleared-of-murder-74-years-after-hanging-1.2061693 Janet ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 17:57:37 +0000 From: Clare Tuohy <claretuohy2@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [COTIPPERARY] 75 year old murder : Gleeson & McCarthy New Inn To: Janet Crawford <reojan@gmail.com>, cotipperary@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <CAKP0t=gxmyQ0ODJ7ZUfgTJMMV6WSGaiGds7j5NQyH+wLqS87kw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Janet That's wonderful news - I hadn't seen the news report. Most people in the area believed he was innocent at the time. There was a book published in the last 10 years or so (Murder at Marlfield - I think) dealing with the case and it made a very good case that Harry Gleeson was innocent. It was a travesty of justice that he was executed - so sad for his family and relatives who were near neighbours of a granduncle of mine. Thanks for letting us know. Regards Clare On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Janet Crawford via < cotipperary@rootsweb.com> wrote: > "Almost three quarters of a century after being sent to the gallows for a > murder he had nothing to do with, Tipperary man Harry Gleeson is to become > the first recipient of a posthumous pardon from the State [of Ireland]. > In 1940, Mr Gleeson walked into a garda station in New Inn, Co Tipperary to > report his discovery of a dead body. Moll McCarthy was lying in a field > having suffered two shotgun blasts to the face." > > > http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/irish-man-cleared-of-murder-74-years-after-hanging-1.2061693 > > Janet > > > > When replying to a message in the digest please do two things: > 1. Change the 'Subject' to that of the message you are replying to. > 2. Delete all the messages above and below the one you are concerned with. > Thank You. > > All of the past messages of this list can be found in the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cotipperary > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COTIPPERARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------ To contact the COTIPPERARY list administrator, send an email to COTIPPERARY-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the COTIPPERARY mailing list, send an email to COTIPPERARY@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COTIPPERARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of COTIPPERARY Digest, Vol 10, Issue 2 ****************************************** Thomas L Bohan, VP Forensic Specialties Accreditation Board tbohan2@maine.rr.com 2073181170
Hi Tom, Different country, different laws, different definitions and a different kind of pardon. His name has been cleared via Ireland's laws. On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Thomas L Bohan via < cotipperary@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Dear Janet—Thanks for posting this very interesting (and timely, given > events in the US) story. However, the newspaper and others are wrong in > calling “pardon,” if an exoneration is what Gleeson actually (and, it > seems, appropriately) was given. A pardon is given to someone who has > committed a crime for which he was convicted. In this instance, It seems it > was a wrongful conviction from which he was exonerated.—Tom > On Jan 11, 2015, at 3:00 AM, cotipperary-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > > When replying to a message in the digest please do two things: > 1. Change the 'Subject' to that of the message you are replying to. > 2. Delete all the messages above and below the one you are concerned with. > Thank You. > > Today's Topics: > > 1. 75 year old murder : Gleeson & McCarthy New Inn (Janet Crawford) > 2. Re: 75 year old murder : Gleeson & McCarthy New Inn (Clare Tuohy) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 16:41:35 +0000 > From: Janet Crawford <reojan@gmail.com> > Subject: [COTIPPERARY] 75 year old murder : Gleeson & McCarthy New Inn > To: cotipperary@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <CANOXhXazkUwdoWTfTmRfh7HwF= > eTMsUrDRKVp2fQ4FGHC43ddg@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > "Almost three quarters of a century after being sent to the gallows for a > murder he had nothing to do with, Tipperary man Harry Gleeson is to become > the first recipient of a posthumous pardon from the State [of Ireland]. > In 1940, Mr Gleeson walked into a garda station in New Inn, Co Tipperary to > report his discovery of a dead body. Moll McCarthy was lying in a field > having suffered two shotgun blasts to the face." > > > http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/irish-man-cleared-of-murder-74-years-after-hanging-1.2061693 > > Janet > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 17:57:37 +0000 > From: Clare Tuohy <claretuohy2@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [COTIPPERARY] 75 year old murder : Gleeson & McCarthy New > Inn > To: Janet Crawford <reojan@gmail.com>, cotipperary@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <CAKP0t= > gxmyQ0ODJ7ZUfgTJMMV6WSGaiGds7j5NQyH+wLqS87kw@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Janet > That's wonderful news - I hadn't seen the news report. Most people in the > area believed he was innocent at the time. There was a book published in > the last 10 years or so (Murder at Marlfield - I think) dealing with the > case and it made a very good case that Harry Gleeson was innocent. It was > a travesty of justice that he was executed - so sad for his family and > relatives who were near neighbours of a granduncle of mine. > Thanks for letting us know. > Regards > Clare > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Janet Crawford via < > cotipperary@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > "Almost three quarters of a century after being sent to the gallows for a > > murder he had nothing to do with, Tipperary man Harry Gleeson is to > become > > the first recipient of a posthumous pardon from the State [of Ireland]. > > In 1940, Mr Gleeson walked into a garda station in New Inn, Co Tipperary > to > > report his discovery of a dead body. Moll McCarthy was lying in a field > > having suffered two shotgun blasts to the face." > > > > > > > http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/irish-man-cleared-of-murder-74-years-after-hanging-1.2061693 > > > > Janet > > > > > > > > When replying to a message in the digest please do two things: > > 1. 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