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The Glenrowan Board has recommended the payment of a sum of £305 to Mrs [[Jones' Glenrowan Inn|ANN JONES]] as compensation for the destruction of her hotel in the final fight with the Kelly gang. The woman claimed much more, but the public, after a perusal of the published evidence, may well be surprised that there should be an award at all in her favour. The claim was opposed on behalf of the Crown, on the plea that Mrs JONES brought what happened upon herself, and the case established will seem to most people tolerably conclusive. So strongly do the police feel on this point, that Mrs JONES was arrested and arraigned for sheltering and succouring the outlaws, and though a Beechworth jury acquitted her, yet it is one thing to say that she is not so clearly guilty that she is to be punished, and another to resolve that she is innocent, and should be compensated.