Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-20
FAMOUS Spy is
TOO DARING AND
IS IN THE TOLLS
Ignatius T. Lincoln Is Cap
tured by New York Police
AT First He Denied His
Identity.

New York, Feb. 1s.-1gnatius T. Lin
cold, former British parliament mem
Der, and famous international spy, was
too daring tonight and again fell into
the hands of the federal authorities
after eluding capture for more than Il
month. Betrayed he said. by a room
ing house keeper, Lincoln was arrested
and quickly manacled by a Brooklyn
deputy marshal and he returned to
the rooming house to demand his lug
gage. He surrendered with a laugh as
he faced the business end of a revolver,
denied his identity for a time and later
regaled Captain Tunney of the New
York bomb squad" with an account of
his boldness while a fugitive in New
York.
The prisoner was bundled into Tun-
ney's automobile and driven to the
office of Chief Ley of the New York
federal secret service. An hour later
he was whisked into an elevator down
nine floors to Park Row and over
Brooklyn bridge to Raymond jail.
where he was held under heavy guard.
Demanded Money for Silence.
Lincoln's rooming house keeper, sus-
pectng his guests true identity,
charged him with being the escaped
spy. Lincoln laughed and said he
would move. Then, according to his
story, the man demanded $3.50 as the
price of his silence. Still Lincoln de-
MED his identity and left the house.
While he was gone the proprietor,
Lincoln claims, telephoned the office
of United States Marshal Powers Of
h.,
tigate. Lincoln was nabbed on the
street when he returned to demand his
trunks.
I'm send that man to Jail for black
mail If it is the last act of my life"
Lincoln said tn Contain Tnnnay
Tne nights events were just another
chapter in the lurid life OF the man
who served as member of the British
house of commons, minister of the
Anglican church, and SAYS he was II
spy against the country of his adop-
ton.
Served in British Parliament.
Born in Hungary In 1870 he was nat
uralized in England and served term
in parliament before leaving that
country for Canada. There he studied
for the ministry. was ordained and be-
came curate Of a church in Appledore,
Kent
Lincoln escaped from Deputy Mar
shall Francis Johnson in New York
Jan. IS by simply walking out of a
restaurant where they were dining He
was being held pending the outcome of
extradition proceedings brought by the
British government to have him tried
ostensibly as a forger
The trial was said merely to be a
cloak for the graver espionage charge,
Thought II Was Crones.
Captain Tunney of the police bomb
squad" received a telephone message
that an important arrest had been
made at Broadway and Thirtieth mo-
tored to the rooming house, believing
that Jean Crones, the Chicago chef
wanted for an alleged attempt to poi
son several score of persons at the
dinner to Archbishop Mundelein, had
been arrested. Instead, he found Lin
coin. protesting to several detectives
that they had made a serious mistake.
Tunney knew Lincoln very well and
when the police captain entered, the
prisoner readily admitted his identity
1T has been easy lodging you fell
lows" he told Captain Tunney Il
just shaved off my mustache and wan
dered about New York talking to po-
licemen, who never recognized me.
dressed up as d farmer, went down 10
Perth AmboY and strolled around the
Dupont powder plant without stirring
ripple"
What made you write letters to the
newspapers kidding the federal Off
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