PAISLEY TRAGEDY

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19818, 4 January 1930, Page 13

PAISLEY TRAGEDY

MANAGER OF CINEMA ARRESTED. CHARGED WITH CULPABLE HOMICIDE. QCSITEB PE ESS ASSOCIATION —BT EUECTSIO TELEGRAPH —COPVBIGHT.) LONDON", January 2. Charles Dorward, manager of the Glen cinema at Paisley, has been arrested and charged with culpable homicide in connexion with the disaster whereby 70 children lost their lives. Paisley Town Councillors personally visited the homes of the bereaved parents to enquire if a mass public funeral was desired. It was decided that it would be better for the parents to carry out their own arrangements, the Council merely providing the needy with grave sites. There were pathetic . scenes at the mortuary when many volunteers engaged in preparing for burial the bodies of the little victims broke down under the ordeal, and had to be replaced by others. Hearses conveying the bodies to the homes passed between long lines of weeping men and women. All the injured are progressing except one with a fractured skull, whose condition is critical. The relief fund has reached £.3000, including a gift of £.IOOO from a Paisley draper. Five families lost two or more children.