"JONES AND KELLY WILL SERVE 36 YEARS IN PRISON," Winnipeg Tribune. June 14, 1912. Page 8. ---- Nineteen Years Extra for Four Men Who Broke Out of Ports- mouth Penitentiary ---- Kingston, Ont., June 14. - Nineteen years were added by Judge Madden to each of the sentences of Frank Jones, Harry Kelly and George Brown, the western desperadoes, who on April 20 escaped from the provincial penitentiary at Portsmouth after assaulting and wounding guards and keepers. The convicts came upyesterday at the court of general session along with Arthur Bonner, the Australian, who came under their influence at Stoney Mountain penitentiary and, became further associated with them at the time of their escape. Bonnar conducted his case with the skill of a lawyer. Jones. when he saw how the Jury acted in the charges against his comrades, put in a plea of guilty and saved the court an hour trying him.
The additional nineteen years means that Jones and Kelly have thirty-six years of prison lite before them, while Brown, the abductor of Gladys Price, will serve twenty-seven years before he will be a free man.
Bonnar made a splendid plea to the judge when he stood up for sentence. He asked for chance to become a useful member of society. Judge Madden was so impressed that, while he gave him the same sentence as the other three men, he informed Bonnar that if he behaved himself well in the prison during the remaining years of his western sentence he would be given an opportunity at the expiration of the seven years to apply for a pardon.
Past Records Frank Jones and Arthur Kelly are the names under which the Macum brothers are known in Winnipeg and they are looked upon by the local police as two of the most daring criminals with which they have had to deal. After committing a series of robberies here they were rounded up in Elmwood by Constable Mackenzio and chased across the river. Cornered in the red light area, they shot W. P Traynor, and later were arrested by several constables headed by Hugh Brown. Traynor laid at the point of death for some days, but ultimately recovered and is now desk sergeant at police headquarters. During the chase after Jones and Kelly between thirty and forty shots were fired at the constables who were unarmed. Shortly after this the police commission decided that all constables must be armed to prevent a similar trouble in the future.
Brown is the man who abducted. Miss Price from the school house near Snowflake. For eight days the Pembine valley was scoured by the settlers who left their work and armed themselves with any weapon on which they could lay their hands. However, despite the vilizance Brown succeeded in stealing food from the Western hotel at Snowflake and disturbed in one of his raids he shot William Adams, the proprietor. Eight days after abducting Miss Price Brown was captured two miles south of the boundary in a house where he had gone for food and shelter.
Bonnar is a horse thief sentenced here on several charges. He made a sensational leap from a train while being brought in for trial and also made several attempts to escape. With such men as Brown, Jones and Kelly he was considered too dangerous to keep in the penitentiary at Stony Mountain so the quartette, heavily shackled, were sent to Kingston, it was while nearing the eastern penitentiary that they made the break for liberty for which they were sentenced today.
