NOT GUILTY
MANAGER OF PICTURE SHOW IVITO LOCKED THE GATE V (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received May 3, 11 a.m.) London, May 2. Conflicting evidence as to whether an iron trellis exit gate was lookHj or unlocked was given at the trial at Edinburgh of Charles Dorward. manager of flip Paisley picture theatre, in which 70 children perished on December 31. Dorward. who was charged with culpable homicide, gave evidenc e that lie did not lock th e gate at the performance. If tho police found it locked, then somebody else must have locked it. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2572, 3 May 1930, Page 5
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