WOMAN SET FREE
AFTER AN ATTEMPT TO POISON HER CHILDREN. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] i LONDON, Jan. 23. Mrs Gert. Langford, of Adelaide, who was recently convicted of attempting to poison four of her children, and thon tried to commit suicide, was set free by Mr Justice Avery to-day. The Judge said that the circumstances were exceptional, and that as provision had been made by her 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 the privations experienced by Mrs Langford’s family since her husband'went to England, in an endeavour to place an invention on the market, Airs Langford, in desperation, attempted to take her own and her children’s lives.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1930, Page 5
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