Three "Model" Men.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 282, 7 April 1894, Page 4

Three "Model" Men.

" Scrutator " writes in the New , Zealand Mail as followa :— Shortly : after Captain Verney, M P ., had been j convicted of enticing a young English girl to Paris for immoral purposes and this, if you remember, followed the disgusting D« Cobaio scandal— ** Scrutator" met a gentleman who had been a member ot the House of Commons and knew both Verney and DeCobain well by sight. This gentleman told him that these two men, each of whom wa* afterwards proved to be a filthy minded and filthy-acted scoundrel, used, with one or two other members, to hold little prayer meeting* in the tea-room of the House of Commons, and curiously enough one of the other members was Mr Jabez Spencer Balfour, "a fat, greasy, wheezy, pyerdressed, pomaded and perfumed little man, 1 said my informant. Verney, my friend told me, used to visibly shudder if anyone let out a big, big D in his immediate vicinity, and yet at the Tory time this whitewashed sepulchre was paying a Parisian procuress large sums in order that ho might satisfy bis vile lusts. Of the three afternoon prayer partakers, De Cobain is in gaol for unmentionable immorality, verney has been, and is, I think, still ia gaol, whilst the third, Jabez Spencer Balfour, will soon, I hope, be on his way home to England and the prisoner's dock, A nice trio of hypocrites, are they not?