A reward of £1,000 has been offered to any person
not a police agent who shall give such information as may lead to the detection of the author of the attempt made on Thursday week to explode the Local Government Office at Westminster, or the Times' office at Blackfriars. There was a rumour on Thursday that there had been in communication with the police a woman who remembered seeing the face of a person apparently trying to
deposit something within the balustrades of the Local Government Office on Thursday week, and that this woman had such a clear look at him that she would know him again. If this he true, there may be a clue to the perpetrator of the outrage ; but communica- tions of this kind, made after the offer of very large rewards, must always be received with great reserve. Wrong guesses are not penal, and there is always some hope that, even if the fall reward offered is not earned, there may be driblets of advantage to be gained by a bold candidature for the greater prize.
