Simon Amos was a gregarious strawberry redhead, seventeen-years-old, with freckled white skin and a conniving child-like personality that verged on the manic, then slumped into a guarded aloofness, and one could only guess what he was feeling.
He had "...a weird sense of humour. He likes carrying on and pulling jokes on you and that he was a sort of out-character person," Flora Valley’s sixteen-year-old governess, Therese Stansfield-Campbell, remembered, when it was all over. Halls Creek man Stan Tremlett described James as quiet and reserved, more of a thinker, while Simon had a"harum-scarum" personality". |