Harry Gleeson a patsy for locals with a secret
Gleeson walked into a garda station in New Inn, Co Tipperary, on November 21, 1940, to report the discovery of the body of Moll McCarthy in a field near his home. The 39-year-old victim had received two blasts from a shotgun.
Six months later, on April 23, 1941, Gleeson was hanged in Mountjoy Prison for the murder. He had nothing to do with it. He was an innocent, well-respected, single man, who worked hard as a farm manager in the area. The only thing he shared with Moll McCarthy is that both of them were ‘blow-ins’ to the area. He had been the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time, and thereafter became a handy patsy for a murder others wished to cover up.
