Mary Ann Norsett, a half caste girl employed as a servant at the Yan Yean, has reported to the police that on the night of the 21at inst she was attacked by a man, by whom she was criminally assaulted. The girl states that the man, who had his face blackened, said he was Dan Kelly, and threatened to kill her if she resisted. Just prior to the assault, the informant was in the company of a Miss E Young, with whom she had been to the Nillumbik township and whom she left by the side of Brown's Gully, where the out rage, it is alleged, was perpetrated. The police have the matter in hand.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS)
BEECHWORTH, Tuesday.
The ten Kelly sympathisers were brought up before Mr Foster this morning and discharged, as no evidence was brought forward by the police Superintendent Furnell persecuted, and Mr Bowman appeared for the defence. The men cleared out of town directly they were liberated.
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