PAISLEY CINEMA FIRE SEQUEL.
JURY THROW OUT HOMICIDE CHARGE
(United Fnss Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received May 3, 8.50 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 Charles Dorward, manager of the Paisley Cinema, in which 70 children perished. 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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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19060, 3 May 1930, Page 1
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