"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

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 >