ANOTHER ENGLISH SCANDAL.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 999, 24 April 1891, Page 31

ANOTHER ENGLISH SCANDAL.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. INQUIRY IN~THE HOUSE. (special to press association.) London, April 15. A question has been put on the Order Paper of the House of Commons enquiring whether warrants have been issued for the arrest of Captain Verney and Mr E. S. De Cobain, M.P’s., who are accused of grave criminal offences, and what measures will be taken to have these Members expelled from the House. London, April 16. It is reported that Captain Verney, M.P., is returning from Geneva to meet the accusations made against him of procuring women for immoral purposes. Captain Verney telegraphs to the Speaker of the House of Commons that he is returning from Italy. (PER press association.) London, April 18. At Bow street to-day Captain Verney, M.P., was charged with encouraging Eugenie Florence, who was recently accused of procuring for immoral purposes Miss Bask. The question of expelling Captain Verney and Mr De Cobain has been before the House of Commons, but no action with regard to the former will be taken pending the result of his trial. In the case of Mr De Cobain time will be

allowed him in which to answer the charges. . The woman whom Captain Verney is charged with encouraging to procure women is Eugenie Roullier, alias hi. E. Florent, a French woman, who in September last decoyed to Paris a young lady named Nellie Maud Baskett, under 21 years of age, for an immoral purpose. Roullier was convicted of the offence in November last, bub sentence was postponed in order that she might some information to the authorities if she thought proper to do so. In December she was brought up for sentence, and received four months’ imprisonment. Mr Wilson, who was described as a banker, is the name of the man for whom it is alleged Miss Baskett was procured, and the latter, in her evidence to-day, deposed that Captain Verney is identical with Wilson.