HARBORING AN OUTLAW.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2410, 7 December 1880, Page 4

HARBORING AN OUTLAW.

Mrs Ann Jones, recently the proprietess of the Glenrowan Inn, was brought up at the Wangarata Police Court on November 25 oft a charge of harboring Edward Kelly, she knowing that at the time he had been guilty of the murder of Constable Lonigan.— James Riordan, the man who was compelled to pull up the railway line by the Kellys, stated that after going back to the stationmaster’s house on the Sunday morning the prisoner invited Ned Kelly up to her house to have breakfast, and when someone remarked there was no room in the house, she replied there was plenty. During the night Dan Kelly offered to let Riordan’s wife and other people leave, but Mrs Jones put a stop to it, and said, “No one goes out of here until Ned Kelly gives them a lecture.’’ She produced two keys. One, of the front door, she gave to Dan Kelly, and the other'of the back door, she kept herself. After her remark about the people not being allowed to leave, she spoke to Ned Kelly and he cautioned Riordan and others against trying to leave. When the police came in the morning, and the firing commenced, she told the Kellys to leave and not skulk inside when they had promised her to fight them hand to hand. —Dennis Sullivan, the man who assisted Riordan in pulling up the rails, corroborated this evidence in its main points, and further deposed that the prisoner and Byrne seemed to be on intimate terras, as she was trying to get a ring off his finger in a playful manner. After she gave Dan Kelly the key of the front door he locked it, and sbe locked up the bar.—Mrs Stannistreet, the wife of the then station-master at Glenrowan, detailed the circumstances of the place being stuck up by the Kellys, and further stated that the prisoner had invited the Kellys to her place to breakfast, and had told her daughter to go over and prepare it - —Margaret Riordan, one of the incarcerated prisoners at Glenrowan was examined as to the demeanor of the prisoner, and was explicit in her statement that Mrs Jones had prevented the people leaving through her representations to Edward Kelly. She also stated to Byrne, when there was a remark made as to the scarcity of bread in the house, “ I have plenty of bread, but I am keeping it for you.”—John Delaney, a resident of Greta, who was also a prisoner at the hotel was examined. He had incurred the displeasure of the gang in some way, and when he asked to be allowed to go home, Mrs Jones said “No ; revenge is sweet, and I would give 5s a-head for some more Greta .”. She was in and out with the gang all da}', and seemed to be on the most friendly terms with them, ordering her son to sing a poetical effusion in praise of the outlaws. She also told Delaney she would be glad if the gang stayed a week at her place ; and when the police came up and began to fire, she exclaimed “ This is that

Fitzpatrick’s work.” Edward Reynolds, another of those imprisoned by (he gang, gave similar evidence, and further stated that when he went out at the back door in the afternoon she told Ned Kelly to look out as he was going to escape.—The Bench decided to send the case to a higher Court, and committed the prisoner to take her trial at the next Court of Assize to be held at Beechworth.