PAISLEY CINEMA DISASTER
MANAGER ON TRIAL.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) LONDON, May 2.
Conflicting evidence as to whether me iron trellis exit gate was locked, or unlocked, was given at the trial at, Edinburgh of Charles Dorward, Manager of the Paisley Cinema i which twenty ohild|re/n perished in December of last year. Dorward was charged with culpable homicide. He gave evidence lie did not lock the gate ait fihe K performance. If . thd police found it locked somebody else must have locked it. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1930, Page 5
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98PAISLEY CINEMA DISASTER Hokitika Guardian, 3 May 1930, Page 5
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