The Archive · 1925

Sympathy for Condemned Man

Thorne, without a sizn, then turn-and although warders stood by his side to render assistance, walked quietly down the steps of the dock to the cells below.

Outside the court hundreds of people waited to hear the verdict, most of them being women, and when Miss Caldicott emerged she was greeted with hissing from a number of women and girl Miss Caldicot walked to. the station, and a crowd of some two oF three score of women followed her, their hissing becoming louder and Tender. One of Miss Caldicott's male companions stopped to expostulate with the crowd, but his Protest was useless, and when the witness walked into the booking office of the station the booing was loud and Just as this demonstration ended Mr. Thorne, senior, walked into the 'Wooking-office, and' the crowd' titude changed at once to one of deep sympathy.

Norman Thorne is one of the most extraordinary. youths who have ever 'a Judge and jury. Twenty-

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