Ward Road Gym History
(Article copied from a report in the Advertiser on 28th April 1921)
Alleged Fire Raising atDundee “Gym”
ACCUSED BEFORE POLICE COURT
The four men arrested by the Dundee police in connection with
the recent fire in the Ward Road Gymnasium, when the building was completely
gutted, appeared before Baillie Allan at Dundee Police Court yesterday.
The accused are: - James Weir (26), labourer, 165 Hilltown; Thos. McIver
(23), labourer, 178 Brook Street; Frederick Gow (28), discharged soldier,
27 North Ellen Street; and Donald Gordon Stephen (26), labourer, 151
Victoria Road.
Mr. A. Bell, Burgh Procurator-Fiscal, stated that the accused
were charged with having willfully set fire to and destroying the public
Gymnasium
and its contents in ward Road on Wednesday, 13th April, at or about
10.30p.m. He asked that they might be remanded in custody until Tuesday
next.
The Bench acquiesced.
Considerable interest was manifested in the proceedings
by a large crowd of spectators, who thronged the Courtroom. So great
was the demand
for
admittance that many had to be refused entrance to the Court, and
these assembled outside, and waited to hear how the case had proceeded.
