Glenrowan
“The board appointed by the Government to inquire into Mrs. Jones’s claim for compensation for loss of her hotel at Glenrowan, and the shooting of her child, during the attack of the police on the Kelly gang, on the 28th June, 1880, sat at the Benalla courthouse on Friday, the 18th inst.”
Anne Jones, late of the Glenrowan Hotel, was charged before the Wangaratta Bench this morning, under the 275th clause of the Criminal Offences Statute, with harbouring a felon.
Platelayer James Reardon’s account of the Glenrowan seige taken by the Royal Commission.
Her residence, a four-roomed slab hut, with a bark roof, stands in the middle of a paddock comprising about 40 acres. It is within a short distance from a mountain called Quarry Hill, whence a good view of the surrounding country can be obtained. Within the paddock there were two or three horses and as many cows, and there were a few fowls and a tame kangaroo about the house. But the place presented a gloomy, desolate appearance. There was a very small kitchen garden, but there was no other land under cultivation. Some of the panes of glass in the windows were broken, and, excepting that some creepers had very recently been planted at the foot of the verandah posts, no attempt had been made to beautify the house, or make this home look homely.
Glenrowan 