White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1920-06-20

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ties. Otherwise. he behaved quietly.
and nobody either knew or cared what
he was up to. Then. Oh May %, 1915.
out of the %proverbial clear sky came
the proverbiaI thunderbolt.
On that day a New York Sunday
newspaper published an article signed
by l. 7. T. Lincoln. former member Of
parliament. After a brief sketch Of
his previous career the author told
how he, aroused by the iniquitous at,
titude of the British government to-
ward subjects of enemy origin, had
sought to betray his adopted country
to Germany. The gist of the story was
that Lincoln, by aid of a series Of
clever ruses, insinuated himself into
the confidence of the British military
and naval intelligence service and
then used his position TO receive val
liable information for the benefit of
the German admiralty.
The next Sunday the revelations
continued. Lincoln telling In detail
how he trapped" certain officers of
the British war office and admiralty.
The story was written, like the first
installment, In an extremely sugges-
tive style, full of technical terms, al
lusions TO secret pass words high
standing. but usually unnamed off,
Gals, secrets of state of the utmost
significance which for the time be-
Ing" however, could not be revealed.
He Learned Nothing.
The truth Of the matter. breaking
through the layers OF stylistic mystic
cation, was that Lincoln. after several
weeks game OF hide-and-seek In which
he pretended to lead the British au-
thcrities by the nose. learned exactly
nothing of the secrets he was after.
and was, In fact. himself led on by
his supposed victims. When in the
end he found things were growing too
hot for him he boarded a steamer and
left for New York. Indeed, to the un-
biased reader his escape from arrest
seems to be his only really successful
exploit.
These articles, revealing Lincoln not
SO much as a really dangerous spy. but
rather a. q public nuisance and vain
glorious egotist, aroused considerable
interest In this country. rs well as In
England. and two weeks later the
London Daily Mall published what
purpcrted to be Lineoln's record.
From this II appeared that he was
born in Paks. . little Hungarian town
south OF Budapest, In 1873, Of poor.
but honest Jewish parents. His orig
fnal name was Isaac Trebitsch.
In 1896. after having passed through
a ~perfunctory schooling. he disap-
peared from the country, much to the
SORROW - according to the English
newspaper-cf the Hungarian police
In 1897 ne was discovered in White
chapel, the famous sium quarters OF
East London. where he was helped by
a missionary whom he rewarded by
stealing his wife's jewelry. He took
the passport of another inmate. Neu-
mann, Of the house where he was stay
ing, and fed to the Continent. where
he committed fraud under the name
OF Eeumann.
Ordained in canada.
In 1890 he studied theology In Ger
many. and In that year was married
In Hamburg. In the following year
he turned up in Canada. and. after
some time spent at a Presbyterian
college. he was appointed a mission
AIRY. Later he Joined the Anglican
church and was ordained.
In 1908 he returned TO England and
became n curste at Appledore. Kent.
Two years later he vas heard of as
teaching at a Quaker school In York.
On August 4. 1915. Lincoln was ar
rested by federal agents in Brooklyn
and locked up IN the Raymond street
jail.
Extradition proceedings D their
due course. Lincoln employing lawyers
TO fight the demand. On January Is.
1915, Lincoln was taken from jail by
a deputy United States marshal to the
| Office of the federal district attorney
In Brooklyn. On the way back they
| entered a Fulton street restaurant for
l~uncneOh. twenty Hiinutts ihltT LII
coin disappeared without a trace.
The game lasted for over q month.
AT last. on February 10, three depart
ment Of justice agents recognized him
on Broadway aud. aided by three hus-
Ky police officers, arrested him at the
! point OF a gun. He was tried In Lon
don. and, on July 4. 1916. sentenced
TO three years Imprisonment for forg-
cry.
That was the end of Lincoln. the In
ternational spy. For three years the
world heard nothing of him.
Last fall. however. Lincoln reap
peared. On September u he made a
surprise visit at Amerongen, In an ap-
parent attempt to see the ~ex-kaiser.
in exile there. in behalf of his ~royalist
friends back home.
II Is obvious that the former spy was
already at this time working for the
Prussian m%ilitsrist clique which two
months ago attempted the abortive