Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1920-07-01
THTRMONT FREDERICK COUNTY, Md. TIL URSDAY, JULY l.

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man. Austrian or Hungarian birth, was
! subjected to by the British authori-
! ties. Otherwise, he behaved quietly,
and nobody either knew or cared what
he was up to. Then, Oh May %, 1919.
| out of the proverbal clear sky came
! the proverbial thunderbolt.
/ On that day a New York Sunday
newspaper published an article signed
by l. r. L. Lincoln former member or
| parliament. After a brief sketch OF
his previous career the author told
how he, aroused by the Ubiquitous at
! titude of the British government to-
ward subjects of enemy origin, mad
sought to betray his adopted country
TO Germany The gist Of the story was
| that Lincoln, by aid of 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 or
the British war office and admiralty.
| The story was written, like the first
iEstallment, In an extremely sugges-
tive style, full Of technical terms. al
hIsons 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 mystln'
cation, was that Lincoln. after several
weeks game of hide-and-S"ek in which
he pretended to lead the British au
lhnritieS by the nose, learned exactly
nothing of the secrets he was after,
and was i'm fact, himself led on by
his supposed victims. When in the
end he found things were growing too
hot for him he boarded steamer AMI
left for New York. Indeed, to the nn.
biased reader his escape from arrest
seems to be his only really successful
exploit.
These articles, revealing Lincoln no;
so much as really dangerous spy, bu'
rnther as a public nuisance and vain
giorious egotist, aroused considerable
interest in this country, as well as In
England and two weeks later the
london Daily Mail published what
rurported to he Lincoln's record.
From this it appeared that he was
born In Paks. little Hungarian town
south of Budapest, In 1879, of poor
hut honest Jewish parents. His orig
lnaI name was Isaac Trebitsch.
In 1896. after having passed through
perfunctory schooling, he disap
peared from the country, much to the
sorrow - according to the English
newspaper-of the Hungarian police"
In 1897 he was discovered In White.
chapel. the famous Stun quarters or
East London. where he was helped by
missionary whom he rewarded b!
stealing his wifes 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 Neumann.
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 Presbyterian
college, he was appointed mission
ary. Later he joined the Anglican
church and was ordained.
In 1903 he returned to England and
became Il curate at AppledOre, Kent
Two years later he was heard of as
teaching at a Quaker school in York.
On August 4, 1918, Lincoln was ar.
rested by federal agents in Brooklyn
and locked up in the Raymond street
Jail.
Extradition proceedings took their
due course, Lincoln employing lawyers
to fight the demand. On January 10
1916. Lincoln was taken from jail by
a deputy United States marshal to the
office of the federal district attorney
I'm BROOKLYN. On the way back they
entered a Fulton street restaurant for
luncheon. Twenty minutes later Lin
com disappeared Hiliou' 'i"'''
The game lasted for over month
At last, on February 10, three depart
ment of justice agents recognized him
on Broadway and, aided by three hus-
XIV 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 Ofshim.
Last fall. however, Lincoln reap
peared On September 81 he made
surprise visit at Amerongen, in an APP
parent attempt to see the ex-kaiser,
In exile there in behalf Of his royalist
friends back home.
1t is obvious that the former spy was
already at this time working for the
Prussian miltarist clique which two
months ago attempted the abortive
Berlin cup. And the world may well
wonder where Mr.. l. T. L. Lincoln
will turn TIP next