§ MR. PAULI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether his attention has been called to two recent letters in The Standard, purporting to have been written at Genoa by one William Henry Hurlbert, otherwise known as Wilfrid Murray; whether a warrant has been issued against the said Hurlbert for wilful and corrupt perjury committed in this country; whether he is believed to be now in Italy; and whether any steps have been or will be taken for bringing this person to justice by extradition or otherwise?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. ASQUITH,) Fife, E.My attention has 1482 been called to the letter in question. A warrant for perjury was issued for the arrest of this person in November, 1891. It might tend to frustrate the ends of justice if I were to say where he is now believed to be; though I may observe (without any special reference to the particular case) that a letter to the newspapers by a fugitive from justice, purporting to be written from a named place, is, as a rule, primâ facie evidence that the writer is somewhere else. All possible steps have been, and are being, taken to bring this man to justice.