KNEW NORMAN THORN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 66, 19 March 1925, Page 8

KNEW NORMAN THORN.

ELSIE CAMERON'S MURDERER. AUCKLANDER'S EECOLLE£TIONS. A resident of the North Shore who has not been long in the Dominion says that he knew Gorman Thorn, who has been sentenced to death for the murder of his fiancee, Miss Elsie Cameron, very well. They often worked together, and at night often had evenings of enjoyment together. Thorn, he says, was a most attractive personality, and had the idea that he was a favourite with, the opposite sex. He was inclined to be changeable, and often used to have very religious turns. Then, after a time, he would go back to card playing and other enjoyments, which he had renounced for a more serious life. Poultry farming appealed to Thorn, because he was able to apply a good few of his fads to poultry breeding. No one who ever knew him would ever think of him committing the awful crime for which he had been condemned. He was kind hearted and always willing to help those who needed help. It was just like him to get tangled up with girls, and when once he had made the silly mistake of courting two girls at the same time it would be hard for him to disentangle himself. Thorn's mind siust have become completely unbalanced to have done what he did, and now, looking back on the many happy times they had had together our informant can only think that if Thorn had not had so much time to brood over the troubles he had foolishly brought upon himself he would have remained a useful member of society. Thorn deserved no consideration—he knew better.