The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-06
BRITAIN WANTS HIS
LIFE, SAYS. EX-M. P.
Forgery Trumped Up to Extra
ditc Him for Spying, Is
Lincoln's story.
RAIL NAY NOT FREE HIM

,~r,,,u. Timothy Tribich Lincoln
a.. ,,rco,n part OF his name. he says,
10 assumed legally In England-onc
,,,,o member OF the British House OF
r.,,,,ous but later aid to be a Ger
-, s,y. vas committed to the Ray
.,o,a street Jail yesterday by United
s,,,cs District Judge Van Nechten
yocier In brooklyn, following his ar
900, after midnight yesterday morning
on a forgery charge.
Tho charge. according to treaties be-
,,..r the United States and Great Bril-
,.,, il cxtradi,able the prisoner
may no, he freed on bail pending the
.-,,ya, Of papers from London. Tri-
,t., n, AS he prefers to be known. Lin
.o,, insisted yesterday that the for
eerx charge against him has been sud-
doply "trumped up by Great Britain
an that he can he brought back to Eng
,Ish soil, and shot as a spy.
A. the prisoner sat In United States
Marshal James II. Powers office In the
Federal Building. Brooklyn. last evening
h.for. being taken to a cell he refused to
,s,, much about himself unless he were
maid for the interview" Among the
TOW details he did disclose. however.
was the statement that for four years
he was private secretary to Benjamin
se.bohm Rowntree, a wealthy cocoa
manufacturer and philanthropist OF Lon
aon. whose name. according to the war
rant OF arrest issued by the United
s,a,es Government at the Instance OF
Great Britain. was forged by Lincoln
q year ago.
Calls CHARGE Conspiracy.
.pu, this charge" said Lincoln. who
Il a we'll dressed middle aged man
,warthy and speaking with a Hungarian
accent, "is all a conspiracy OF the Eng
llsh to get hold Of me on their own
soil. why Just before I sailed from
London for America last January ! saw
Mr.. Rowntree In the National Liberal
Club In London and We chatted pleas
antly.
'Great Britain charges that the for
series am accused OF were uttered by
me in London back in July, 1914. Well.
I lived openly in London from July.
1914, until I sailed under my own name
for America Oh the Philadelphia Janu-
airy 80 last. I've lived free above
board here, too. received mail under my
own name and never made any attempt
TO conceal my whereabouts.
THE whole thing IL this: On May
- last and again on May 80 I published
in a New York Sunday paper some
writings along the lines OF what Will
appear In the book l am now finishing.
Revelations OF an International Spy
England and the English papers made
a fuss over the revelations ! told and
they knew that | hav n vast store OF
Information still to disclose. one OF 1t
favorable to England in the present war.
So all Of a sudden they trump up this
forgery charge 80 they al get me back
10 tn Tower and shoot me as a spy"
Vague as were L.incoln's Of
Nis own life he told enough yesterday
% enable one TO piece together a brief
History of his career. II was when In
teryicwers touched upon his activities
~ a spy that he closed up tight-any
revelations along those lines, he said.
must be- looked for In his forthcoming
book. He was willing to talk at length
nu any subject, however. II paid for his
ne story by the newspapers.
From his few remarks II was gathered
ina, he was born in Hungary and dur
us 'UliulpDu anu lot Uldlly years dIteT
he was a Jew. After completing his
studies IN Hungary. he says, he went
10 England. There he tackled the ''Lin-
coin" to his name and became inter-
osted in politics.
Book Helped Make Him VI. p.
Prom 1906 to 1909 Lincoln acted as
secretary TO Mr.. Rowntree. During this
period. lie said yesterday. he was sent
TO the Continent by the British capital
ist 10 collect economic data to be used
by Mr.. Rowntree In a book. Lincoln says
mlllans under the title of Land and
Labor: Lessons from Belgium" Mr.,
Rowntree gives Lincoln credit in the
preface for the work he did in getting
the data together.
TT was largely through tina book, -
Lincoln continued. that l was elected
me Liberal member Of Parliament from
darlington I had become a British
subject IN 1909 and was elected to the
House of Commons in 1910"
Although Lincoln was arrested at 81
Decatur street. Brooklyn. yesterday Pin.
Rerton detectives who say they have
neen trying to locate him for some weeks
ana Marshal Power say that the man
was receiving his mail at 81 Audubon
avenue, Manhattan. His whereabouts
mail addressed to him 1t the Audubon
avenue address.
Accuse Him Of Getting $500.
The imposing looking warrant. which
was accompanied by an affidavit sworr
-" by Hugh Alexander Ford. British
senior Vice-Counsel OF the Port Of New
'ofk' charges that Lincoln did commit
crimes Of forgery and obtaining money
hy false pretenses' in July and October
I'li In London. The sums which II l.
charged Lincoln so obtained amounted
respectively to $3.50. 1900 and fl50, OF
about $500 in all.
Lawyer Edward H.. Lockwood OF thu
hr'n of Marbury & Fox, Sc Broadway
n'hrcscnting the British acting Consul
GENERAL. and Lawyer Lorenzo Semple
$50 Of tn" British Consulate. appeared
against Lincoln in court. Maurice Cukol
VI IN" World Building represented Lin,
'"'", Tending the arrival OF the neces
fl'N aepositions and other papers from
london Judge Needer put the hearing
over ur;l August 10.
ASSISTANT United States Attorne,
samuel J.. Reid, Jr,. represented th'
government. Lincoln has the right o
aU'aI 30 case the lower court decides
.n'' 'h" evidence to arrive from Londor
variants his ~extradltion. He says h,
W. I9at eNtradition up to the highes
United States tribunal.
MI Semple OF the British Consulat,
vas told that Lincoln contended Fri
SS'e'y that the forgery charges agains
nm would be dropped In England tn,
"olnent ne was on English soil and hi