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I don't think these two comments are quite the same, although I agree they share a pompous morality.
The dance halls as 'dens of iniquity' comment is a very general comment not specific to any of Glasgow's many dancehalls of the time which included The Barrowland, The Majestic. the Dennistoun Palais, the Locarno and the the Plaza. It's the type of comment made by a person who has never been inside any of these premises. The sort of comment a moralising parent might offer across the dinner table.
However the insurance fraud claim was made quite specifically about the Barrowland which had indeed been destroyed by fire in 1958, a decade before the killings. A 14 year old boy who had never been in a dancehall would hardly have distinguished one venue from another, even at his parents' promptings. Especially ten years later. But a patron who remembered the 'scandal' would have been confident enough to throw out the allegation in the heat of the moment. This doesn't necessarily point to McInnes but it does indicate someone in his age profile to me. As indeed do the ages of the victims.
The dance halls as 'dens of iniquity' comment is a very general comment not specific to any of Glasgow's many dancehalls of the time which included The Barrowland, The Majestic. the Dennistoun Palais, the Locarno and the the Plaza. It's the type of comment made by a person who has never been inside any of these premises. The sort of comment a moralising parent might offer across the dinner table.
However the insurance fraud claim was made quite specifically about the Barrowland which had indeed been destroyed by fire in 1958, a decade before the killings. A 14 year old boy who had never been in a dancehall would hardly have distinguished one venue from another, even at his parents' promptings. Especially ten years later. But a patron who remembered the 'scandal' would have been confident enough to throw out the allegation in the heat of the moment. This doesn't necessarily point to McInnes but it does indicate someone in his age profile to me. As indeed do the ages of the victims.
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