NATURAL LAW
WIFE’S BETRAYER SHOT DEAD,
HUSBAND TO BE RELEASED.
(Australian Press Association.! (Received 10.53 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day,
Returned soldiers sitting in conference cheered a notification from the Government, that James Layden, who shot dead A, E, Whitford, a Labour member of Parliament, would soon be set. free.
Layden, 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 Whit ford had taken his wife to a house of assignation. Shooting, he said, was too good for Whitford.
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Northern Advocate, 21 August 1929, Page 5
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108NATURAL LAW Northern Advocate, 21 August 1929, Page 5
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