Age: 24
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 22 Apr 1925
Crime Location: Wesley Poultry Farm, Blackness, Crowborough, Sussex
Execution Place: Wandsworth
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://discovery.nationalarchives.co.uk
Murder of Elsie Emily Cameron 26 at Wesley Poultry Farm, Crowborough on 5 December 1924.
Norman Thorne and Elsie Emily Cameron met in 1920 at a Wesleyan church in north London. She was a 26-year-old typist, rather plain, wore glasses and was neurotic. Thorne, eighteen years old at the time, was an electrical engineer with Fiat motors in Wembley. Elsie decided that life was passing her by and that, even though Norman was not the brightest, he would do for her. The couple started courting.
see National Archives - ASSI 36/38, MEPO 3/1610
see Gloucester Citizen - Tuesday 17 March 1925
