MOTHER RELEASED.
SORELY-TRIED WOMAN.
RECENT CASE IN ENGLAND. (Received January 24. 10.45 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 23. Mrs. Gertrude Langsford, of Adelaide, who was recently convicted of attempting to poison four of her children, and who then tried to commit suicide, was set free by Mr. Justice Avory to-day. The Judge 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 had been in England in an endeavour to place an invention on the market, Mrs. Langsford in desperation attempted to take her children's lives and her own.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20472, 25 January 1930, Page 11
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