§ MR. JOHN AIRD (Paddington, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether compensation will be given to Joseph Conrad, who was arrested by the police without a warrant on 6th December 1892, and charged at the Clerkenwell Police Court with attempting to poison his wife, and who, after being detained in prison until the 21st December following, was discharged?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. H. H. ASQUITH,) Fife, E.Full consideration was given to this case at the time, and to an application received from a firm of solicitors acting for Joseph Conrad for compensation, and after consultation with the police and the Director of Public Prosecutions I was of opinion that Conrad had no claim whatever to compensation, to which opinion I adhere.