Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-21
LINCOLN OFFERS
TO GIVE UP IF u. S.
WILL PLAY FAIR
Escaped Spy Writes An
other Statement-Federal
Agents on Hunt
TO PROTECT MARSHAL

NEW YORK Jan. 81.
Search for tgnatious Timothy Trebcl
Isineoln, the versatile Hungarian. WHIT
boasts of having been. in turn, German
and an English spy, was continued with.
out avail yesterday.
Another letter from Lincoln this time
delivered by messenger. instead of by tn,
escaped spy himself was received by the
New York American
Following Llncon's visit to the Office OF
that paper and the publication of his first
statement since his escape from Federal
Deputy Marshal. United states District
Attorney France, of Brooklyn, asked
United states District Attorney Marshall
TO cause the arrest of the persons re-
sponsible for the second disappearance.
An Investigation is being made by MIR.
Marshelrs chief assistant Roger h.
Wood. into the affair
IL is reported that Lincoln dined We'd
nesdGy I'm n restaurant in Park Row In
the same building where the special in
vestigators of the Department of Justice
have their office. Lincoln is said to
have boasted that he could walk into the
Federal Building without being rec
ognized.
MAY BETRAY HIMSELF.
Whether or not Lincoln visited the
newspaper office on Wednesday night,
United States Marshal James NJ. Powers
Investigation Of the escape is being
dragged out in the hope that some such
display of impudent daring will betrav
the fugitive within the next day or two,
Mr. France did take one action yes
terday, however, looking toward Grim
inal action after reading the report of
Lincoln's visit to the newspaper office,
He held that whoever permitted him to
come and go was an accessory after
the fact and so reported to the United
States Attorney In Manhattan. As a
result the alleged visit is to be investi-
gated.
Lincoln's latest statement follows:
Jokes aside. my escape is a serious
matter, and there is more behind this
statement than anybody can imagine.
II have tonight addressed n note to
Captain Omley's office, making final
appeal not TO act as subservient tools
of the British Government against
me. I will see what they will do.
''If reason, fair play and Justice pre-
vail at Washington, I will surrender of
my own free will. Washington knows
what | mean But If not, then l will dis
close the full story of my case and flight
to the American people through your
columns.
.The crux of the whole situation is that
Great Britain is directing the secret SER
vice of this country as II apparently is
directing other departments as well. But
whatever happens | Will certainly not
tolerate that either United States Mar
Enai Power or United states Deputy Mar
shal johnson or anybody else be made a
scapegoat for the inexcusable blunder of
people higher up in Washington
MANY people will consider it presump-
tuous for an individual thus to speak
Why Meanwhile, request Deputy MAJ
shal johnson not to participate in the
hunt: He can see from my statement,
published in your columns this morning,
that I want to save him
~ am not afraid of him; nevertheless |
II he will not Immediately drop out of
this childish hunt of so-called secret
service. ] will consider it as a deliberately
unfrendly act and-speak out
II refuse to be hunted, bulied and
calumnied by an asinine British Govern
ment. 1t is my innate right to fight |
against it with every means available |
just as one Government fights another.
The next step rests with the United |
States Government"
Yours very truly
|. r. Y. LINCOLN. |