POISONING CASE
MRS. LANGSFORD SET FREE desperate act due to PRIVATIONS (Rec. January 24, 10.45 p.m.) London, January 23. Mrs. Gertrude Langsford, of Adelaide, who recently was convicted of attempting to poison four of her children and then tried to commit suicide, was set free by Mr. Justice Avory today, who said the circumstances were exceptional, and as provision had been made by friends for her to return with her family to Australia, he had decided to liberate her. The evidence given at the trial, which caused unusual interest in England, was that owing to privations experienced by the family since the husband went to England in an endeavour to place an invention on the market, Mrs’. Langsford, in desperation, attempted to take her own and her children’s lives.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 103, 25 January 1930, Page 16
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129POISONING CASE Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 103, 25 January 1930, Page 16
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