This appears to be just another conspiracy theory,
without any actual evidence to substantiate the opinions of those concerned. I never heard any direct evidence to prove that he didn’t hang or that he didn’t murder the woman.
If the theory is to believed, why would any doctor in his right mind attempt an illegal home abortion of an eight month pregnancy. Even in 1933 it would be beyond belief. That would result in the death of a child, capable of existence outside of the womb. I personally cannot believe that part of the story. That is completely horrifying.
The remainder of the evidence provided is purely gossip and hearsay without any positive corroboration.
Also, if he didn’t hang, then somebody did so in his place and that in itself is murder. That would take a conspiracy, that big it would need the cooperation of so many people, it would have eventually been exposed. This podcast never got even near to that. Other than by hearsay conflicting gossip.
It sounds like just another Irish folk law story.
It’s probably stories like this over the years that help to keep Irish sectarianism alive.
Also, badly presented with too much, irrelevant, presenters personal detail and with too many unwarranted sound effects and ancillary noisy distractions. I certainly didn’t wish to hear the sound effect of the Irish upheaval. Or the continuous annoying background music and other distracting noises.
Most of all it was so difficult to identify who you were listening to or what they were actually trying to say. There were so many different directions and contradictions.
Nothing I heard, convince me to believe, that he wasn’t guilty and hanged, based on the available tools of investigation and legal processes of the time. We can always go back over things in the past and apply present day methods and throw doubt of certain processes. However, without the new methods and processes, one has to use what is available at the time.
What the podcast revealed was a lot of totally unreliable information and you cannot disprove the official result with that. Maybe it’s a shame you weren’t around with your modern technology then.
Even without the aid of social media, in those days, gossip and conspiracies circulated like wildfire. Especially, when it was remotely related to anything to do with the growing sectarianism in the country. And, in this case such a large scale conspiracy would definitely have been pointing towards one side or the other.
I must stress, that this is purely my opinion, based on what I deduced from listening to all episodes of this podcast.
