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An Unfortunate Family (22/04/1882)

“The Ovens and Murray Advertiser reports that Miss Jane Jones, daughter of Mrs Ann Jones, the landlady of the Glenrowan Hotel, who was wounded in the head by a spent ball at the extermination of the Kelly gang, died at her mother’s residence, Glenrowan, on Saturday morning last.”

Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 – 1918), Saturday 22 April 1882, page 2


An Unfortunate Family.—The Ovens and Murray Advertiser reports that Miss Jane Jones, daughter of Mrs Ann Jones, the landlady of the Glenrowan Hotel, who was wounded in the head by a spent ball at the extermination of the Kelly gang, died at her mother’s residence, Glenrowan, on Saturday morning last. She never was the same girl since she was wounded. This is the third child that Mrs Jones .has had killed at Glenrowan within three years—one girl in 1870, by a tree failing on her; the second was a son shot at capture of the Kellys; and now Jane is the third.

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