Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954), Monday 15 November 1880, page 5
NEWS OF THE DAY
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We learn the following particulars of the arrest of the landlady of the late Glenrowan Hotel from the Age of Thursday :— “A warrant taken out by the police for the arrest of Mrs. Ann Jones, the licensee of the Glenrowan Hotel, was yesterday executed by detective Eason. This person, it will be remembered, was in occupation of the hotel at the time of the destruction of the Kelly gang, but since then she has been residing at Wangaratta, until recently, when she came to Melbourne, and took lodgings at the Robert Burns Hotel, Lonsdale-street, where the friends and relatives of the surviving outlaw have also resided. A good deal of sympathy has been expressed for this woman on account of her son, a lad about 15 years of age, having been killed in the encounter which the police had with the gang, and also for the loss she was understood to have suffered through the burning of her house. She lodged a claim against the Government on this account some time ago. From the first, however, the police have had grave suspicions that she had a closer connection with the outlaws than she cared to acknowledge. For some time past detective Eason, has been stationed at Glenrowan, and, with Inspector Kennedy, who also visited the locality, succeeded in quietly collecting evidence which the authorities consider quite sufficient to base a prosecution upon against Mrs. Jones for knowingly and wilfully harbouring the gang. When arrested she protested her innocence, and complained of having lost enough already without being subjected to prosecution.
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