The London scandal
(PEK UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. ) London, April 20. At Bow street to day Captain Verney, M.P., was charged with encouraging Eugenic Florence, who was recently accused of procuring for immorial nui poses, 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 Eugenic Roullier, alias M.. 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. JRoullier was convicted of the offence in Novebraer last, but sentence was postponed in order that she might give 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 iudentioal with Wilson,
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 128, 21 April 1891, Page 2
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