TRAGEDY OF PRIVATION
DESPERATE WIFE’S CLAIM JUDGE GRANTS FREEDOM FRIENDS TO HELP FAMILY By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10.20 p.m. London, Jan. 24. Mrs. Gertrude Langsford, of Adelaide, who was recently convicted of attempting to poison four of her children and then trying to commit suicide, was set free by Mr. Justice A very to-day. He 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. Evidence given at the trial, which caused unusual interest in England, was that owing to the privations experienced by her 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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Taranaki Daily News, 25 January 1930, Page 9
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