HC Deb 11 April 1872 vol 210 c1090
MR. H. R. BRAND

asked, Whether it is the intention of the Government to offer a reward for the apprehension of the person who was supposed to have committed the murder in Park Lane?

MR. BRUCE

said, in reply, that the Government had issued no promise of a reward for the apprehension of the woman who was supposed to have committed the murder in Park Lane, as it was the custom to adopt that course only at the request of the magistrate before whom the investigation was made, and no such request in this case had yet been made. If it had been made, he need hardly say there would have been no difficulty in taking the course usually adopted on such occasions.