Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), Thursday 11 November 1880, page 4
At a meeting of the Executive Council, held at 12 o’clock yesterday, the further application for a reprieve of Edward Kelly was considered, together with a long statement sent in that morning to the Chief Secretary by the convict. The result was that the law was left to take its course. During the sitting of the Executive, Mr. Hamilton, the chairman of the meeting held in the Hippodrome, with Mrs. Skillion and Mrs. and Miss Lloyd were in attendance in the corridor, and endeavoured to gain admittance to argue the matter personally, but were of course refused. When the final result was made known to the convict’s relations, they were very much distressed. Those who have been buoying them up with hopes which they must have known to be foundationless are greatly to be blamed for unnecessarily adding to the aflliction of the condemned man’s relatives.
Another deputation waited upon His Excellency the Governor last night to pray for the reprieve of the murderer Kelly. His Excellency refused to receive any further deputations in regard to the matter. The Chief Secretary was then interviewed, and he also declined to interfere in any way with the decision already arrived at. The execution will therefore take place at 10 o’clock this morning.
The condemned man, Edward Kelly, appears to be quite resigned to his fate. Yesterday he was visited for the last time by his mother, his sisters Kate Kelly and Grace Kelly, and James Kelly, his brother, to whom he bade farewell. During the day he was visited by Dean O’Hea and Father Donoghy. At his own request his photograph was taken by the departmental operator, and copies will be given to his friends. At a late hour last night he was calm and composed. The last rites of the Roman Catholic Church (to which faith he is attached) will be administered to him early this morning.
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In consequence of the action of Mrs. Ann Jones, the licensee of the Glenrowan Hotel, in regard to the Kelly gang, suspicion arose as to the bonâ fide nature of her conduct in regard to the police. The result of inquiries instituted on the spot gave every reason to believe that she had not only not offered any opposition to the gang, but had also afforded them active assistance. Accordingly, an information was sworn in Melbourne upon which a warrant was yesterday issued for her arrest upon a charge “that she did on the 4th June, 1880, feloniously receive, harbour, and maintain one Edward Kelly, who had then lately before committed a certain felony—that is to say, feloniously, wilfully, and of malice aforethought, killed and murdered one Thomas Lonigan—she, the said Ann Jones, then well knowing the said Edward Kelly to have committed the said felony.” The execution of the warrant was entrusted to Detectives Eason and Ward, who discovered that Mrs. Jones was at the Robert Burns Hotel, Lonsdale-street, where the sympathisers of the gang are in the habit of congregating. The officers visited the house in question, and succeeded in getting her away quietly, and then removed her to the city watchhouse. She denied the charge and protested her innocence. She will be brought before the City Bench this morning, when she will probably be remanded to Beechworth. It is understood that evidence will be forthcoming to prove that when Edward Kelly left the hotel prior to the attack of the police, Mrs. Jones acted as his representative, and prevented the persons confined in the house from leaving, although the other members of the gang offered no objection.
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