PAISLEY CINEMA FIRE.
Manager Acquitted of Homicide Charge. CONFLICTING EVIDENCE. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, May 2. Conflicting evidence as to whether an iron trellis exit gate was locked or unlocked was given at the trial at Edinburgh of Charley Dorward, manager of the Paisley Cinema, in which 70 children perished on New Year's eve. Dorward was charged with culpable homicide. He gave evidence that he did not lock the gate at the performance. If the police found it locked, somebody else must have locked it. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 9
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