LIFE SENTENCE CANCELLED
THE LAYDON SHOOTING. (Australian Press Association) (Received this day at 10 a.m.) BRISBANE, August 21. Returned soldiers sitting in conference, cheered a notification from the Government that James Laydon, who shot dead A. E. Whitford, a Labour member of Parliament, would soon be set free. Laydon, who is a returned soldier, was sentenced to life imprisonment during fne Labour Government’s regime. Returned soldiers have ever since pleaded natural laws as a justification for the shooting. When ho was arrested, Laydon told the police that Whitford had taken his wife to a house on an assignation. Shooting, he said, was too good for Whitford.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1929, Page 6
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106LIFE SENTENCE CANCELLED Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1929, Page 6
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