ACCUSED MOTHER-FREED
TRIED TO POISON FOUR CHILDREN RETURNS TO AUSTRALIA LONDON, Thursday. Mrs: Gertrude Laugsford, of Adelaide, who was recently convicted of attempting to poison four of her child ren, and who then tried to commit suicide, was set free by Mr. Justice Avory today. 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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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 880, 25 January 1930, Page 9
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