Hanged for Murder by Tim Carey

Author:Tim Carey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Collins Press

19 John Hornick, Wexford

Executed on 17 June 1937 for the murder of James Redmond

A Man Withdraws Money from a Bank

At 10.30 a.m. on 13 January 1937 a man walked into the Dún Laoghaire branch of the Ulster Bank with a deposit receipt for £318.11.11 drawn on its Wexford branch in the name of James Redmond. The man wanted to take out £280 in cash. As he was not known in Dún Laoghaire, and Wexford did not have a phone, cashier Caldwell Orr asked the customer to go to the post office and send a telegram to his own branch asking them to phone Dún Laoghaire. They could then verify over the phone that he was indeed James Redmond.

The man left the bank and returned a short time later. When the Wexford branch called, the customer was brought into the manager’s office and put on the phone. There was the briefest of conversations.

‘Is that you James?’

‘Yes.’

‘Will they not give you the money there?’

‘No.’

Then Caldwell Orr took the phone and, after he had a few words with his Wexford colleague, turned to the customer and asked him, ‘Have you been away in Canada or Australia?’

The man replied without hesitation, ‘Yes, out in Canada.’

For the teller this evidently proved that the man was James Redmond. He duly gave him £280 – mostly in £5 and £10 notes – and the man signed the receipt ‘James Redmond’ and left the bank.

It was 11.30 a.m. on 13 January 1937 – two days after James Redmond had last been seen alive.

Discovery of the body of James Redmond

On the evening of 15 January 1937, Mary Redmond called on her brother James at his caravan that he parked down a secluded laneway in Taghmon, just over 8 miles from Wexford town. James was forty-four years old, single and was described as a reserved and quiet man. He had three sisters and two brothers, all of whom lived in the Wexford area. But it was Mary that James got on best with. She visited her brother once or twice a week.

Like many men of his generation James had been abroad for a good portion of his life. He had spent two periods in England before going to Canada from where he had returned six years before with the tidy sum of £200. Since then, he lived on unemployment benefit and did the odd bit of casual work in the area. Partly thanks to a small inheritance he had managed to build up his savings to over £310.

When Mary called to James that evening the caravan door was locked and his bicycle was missing. After a few minutes she left. She called again the next evening. And the next. But each time there was no sign of James. Mary figured he must have gone away for a few days.

When she returned the following Monday and the scene was still the same she decided to have a look around. It was then that she found, in the corner of a field

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