THE GROWBOROU6H MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 83, 8 April 1925, Page 5

THE GROWBOROU6H MURDER.

NORMAN THORN'S APPEAL JUDGES USS MICROSCOPES. MURDER OR SUICIDE 7 (By Cable.—Press Association.— Copyright.)

(Received 10.30 a.m.)

I LONDON, April 7. I The spectacle of judges using microscopes on the bench to examine sections of human skin, was one of several iin;n<ual features at the hearing of the I appeal by Norman Thorn against his ( ilcath sentence. I During the trial last month the defence submitted slides containing sections of skin taken from Elsie Cameron's neck-, in support of the plea that she committed suicide by hanging. The plea was renewed to-day, counsel contending there were indentations consistent with rone marks, with which Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the Home Office pathologist, emphatically disagreed. The appeal is also based on the misdirection or non-direction of the jury.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)

APPEAL REJECTED. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 7. The Court of Criminal Appeal lias rejected the appeal by Thorn.— (A. and S.Z. Cable. Thorn was sentenced to death for the murder of Elsie Cameron, his fiancee, on his poultry farm at Crowborough. His defence was that she committed suicide, the prosecution donending on Sir Bernard Pnilsbury's expert evidence touching the ante-mortom abrasions or discolourations. Hence the hearing of an appeal against the sentence of the Court.