RETURNED MAN TO BE FREE
QUEENSLAND SHOOTING CASE. [ Australian Press Assn. ] BRISBANE, Aug. 21. Returned soldiers sitting in conference cheered a notifiction from the Government that Mr James Laydon, who shot dead A. TT. Whitford, Labour member of Parliament, would soon be set free. Laydon, who is a returned soldier, was sentenced to life imprisonment during the Labour Government’s regime. Returned soldiers have ever since pleaded natural law as a justification for the shooting. When he was arrested Laydon told the police that Whitford had taken his wife to a house of assignation. Shooting, he laid, was too good for Whitford.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 199, 22 August 1929, Page 7
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101RETURNED MAN TO BE FREE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 199, 22 August 1929, Page 7
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