CROWBOROUGH MURDER.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 28 January 1925, Page 8

CROWBOROUGH MURDER.

THORN'S AMAZING GETTER. “ROBINSON CRUSOE IN ENGLAND.” LONDON. Jan. 13. In connection with the mysterious disappearance of the young London t-ypiste, Elsie Cameron, who left her home on December 6 with the intention of visiting friend® at Crowborough , where her fiance, Norman Thorn, lived, and whose body was later found buried on Thorn’s farm, Thorn gave a representative of the Star an. amazing letter. It read: “My Dear Elsie,—lf you are alive, no matter where and no matter what has happened, please write just oile line to remove the dreadful suspense and intolerable agony. Don’t be afraid to tell me anything. 1 want to know all, and am willing to forgive anything and everything. You must realise, dear, that it was love for you fchSai sent me from a. crowded, happy London to seek a home l and fortune by poultry-farming at Crowborongh. ’ “It was love that sustained -me in the wilderness and isolated country existence. How many young, healthy ancl .strong men would have done as much? Often I hav.e been nearly .driven mad with the loneliness of living in a. little wooden hut, at the end of la, narrow lane, with only fowls, dogs and eats’ companionship. I have been a, ‘Robinson Crusoe’ in England. “Cheerfully I have continued the poultry-fa rnii ng en te r.p rise. always working and striving to set a home worthy, of you, and now this has happened. Here lam alone, but everybody isi thinking me, worst of all. “Dear. I know what they are thinking. Tliev come down the lane Stealthilv. a'.nd peer through the gate, as though, the but was occupied bv some vile outcast. There is a look of morbid curiosity oni their faces. Won’t you save me from this torture, Elsie, dear? “Yours. Norman.’ Thom is to stand hid trial for the murder.