The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-10
|. T.T.LINCOLN.
ALLEGED SPY, is
ON BOARD Liner
Report Says Self Styled
German Agent Is On
Rotterdam.

New York, Feb. 10.-Ignatius T. T.
Lincoln, self-styled German spy, who
escaped from Francis Johnson, a
United States Deputy Marshal, after
going to dinner in a Brooklyn res
taurant, was said last night to be
aboard the Rotterdam, of the Hol-
land-American line. If the passen-
ger thought to be Lincoln is the al
legged spy, he may be certain he can
not escape British auth critics at F'al-
mouth, as they already have had word
from this side of the ocean concern
ing his appearance at the time he is
said to have been seen aboard the
Rotterdam when she left this port
last Wednesday. She is due to ar
rive at Falmouth late today.
Lincoln has been sought since Jan
uary 10 by agents of the Secret Ser
vice, Investigators of. the Department
of Justice and the police. It was
thought that if he tried to get away
aboard a steamship he would make
for South America, and for that rea-
son all the piers of those vessels were
watched. However, it happened that
three or four days before the Rot
terdam steamed an Enghshman
thought he recognized hrnco1n among
the passengers on board another
vessel. The passenger was in
great hurry and was extremely ner-
vous. However, he apparently saw
that the Englishman took a second
look at him and followed.
He was arrested last August on
charge Of forgery, and the British
government declared that he would
not be tried for espionage. Lincoln
pretended that he had been of great
service to the British government,
Dragged of beautiful women who had
been enthralled by his amazing knoWl-
edge of the mysteries of the inner cir
cles of International politics and told
h(J IN a been
euIogized by Sir Robert L. Borden,
Premier Of Canada. His story did not
convince many persons, as he protest.
ed so much. However, he was MEM
Der Of Parliament for couple of
months He was born in Hungary
and did enter the service of a wealthy
Iphilanthropist, whom he treated
treacherously, according to his own
admissions.
LincoIn's ESCAPE angered many per
sons, especially when it became known
that he had received many favors
while in Jail and even had acted as a
translator of documents in the hands
| of the Department of Justice. Deputy
Marshal johnson was punished, and
he was one of the most eager men to
get hold, Of Lincoln.
| The day after his escape his egoism
got the best of him, and he is alleged
to have entered a newspaper Office
and given an interview on his escape
Marshal johnson was punished. and
quently heard from him by telephone.
Tt is believed here and in London
that Lincoln was sufficient of an ego
list to believe that he could escape de-
lection at Falmouth and get through
Holland to Germany.
An attempt was made by a news
paperman to get to the passengers
cabin afterward, but the door was
locked. Not long afterward and only
half an hour before the vessel left, a,
man without a mustache, his hat
pulled down over his eyes and wear
ing horned spectac1es FASTENED out Of
his cabin.
He was seento go to the pier carry
ing his suit case and a. satche1. Per-
sons. thought he had taken passage
aboard the vessel and were surprised
when the steamship left without him.
From that time until Wednesday the
piers of the transatlantic steamships
were watched carefully, and on We'd
nesday, dressed in a youthful over
coat and well cut suit, the man
thought to be Lincoln appeared. He
was certainly not registered under his
own name.
The fact that he was aboard the
vessel is said to have been reported to
persons here, and it was decided that
Lincoln had better be taken back to
England and his own way rather than
have further extradition proceedings.
Incidentally, all the British govern
mentw ants with Lincoln is to satisfy
g. forgery charge against him. In
Scotland Yard they do not think much
of his spying ability.
Lincoln boosted that Inspector
Ward, of Scotland Yard came here
purposely to take him back to Lon
don. He put that in the preface of his
book, 1.-The. Revelations of an Inter
national Spy But. Inspector Ward
did not wait for Lincoln, who at that
time was held pending appeal in his
case in the Raymond street Jail, i
Brooklyn.