NATURAL LAW.
Returned Soldiers' Plea For Imprisoned Member. ECHO OF MURDER OF M.P. (Received 11 a.m.) BRISBANE, this day. Returned soldiers sitting in conference, cheered the notification from the Government that .James Layden, who shot dead Mr. A. E. Whitford, Labour member of Parliament, would soon be set free. Lavden, who is a returned soldier, was sentenced to life imprisonment during the Labour Government's regime. The returned soldiers have ever since pleaded the natural law as justification for the shooting. When he was arrested Layden told the police that Whitford had taken his wife to a house of assignnation. Shooting, he said, was too good for Whitford.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 197, 21 August 1929, Page 7
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107NATURAL LAW. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 197, 21 August 1929, Page 7
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