M.P. CURATE AND SPY.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 September 1919, Page 6

M.P. CURATE AND SPY.

ZDEPORTATION“ OF LINCOLN. A REMARKABLE CAREER. __........ That notorious person Ignatius Irebitsch Lincoln, forger and selt'—e.onfessed spy, ex-M.P. for Darlington, excurate, and ex-convict, is to be seen safely out of the Kingdom by Sergeant Brown and Sergeant Hunter, two detectives of Scotland Yard, says 9. Lonidon paper. When released from Pentonville, where he had been taken three weeks ago from Parkhurst Prison, h was taken at once in a taxicab to Liverpool street. and entrained for arwich, there to be put on board a steamer for Rotterdam. . Despite his three years’ penal servitude for forging the name of Mr Seeholm, Rcwntree, to whom he was formerly private secretary, he looked bronzed and well. ’ It seems he proposes to devote the next few months to writing a. serial. story under the title: “Dead and Buried and Descended into Hell: Three Years’ Penal Servitudel in England.”

If he does so he will only be pursuing the Vcnd‘et.ta against England which he first begun openly in New York after he was forced to quit. without 9. leave-taking in 1915. He has had an amazing career. Here it is in brief : Born on the banks of the Danube, his parents were ‘Hungarian Jews. After aAchequ_e‘red experience, he became a convert to Christianity,‘ and studied theology in German yand Canada._ After being a Presbytei-ian Minister in Montreal, he became a Church -of England curate at Appledore, Kent.

Later he left the church and took to politics. In ‘a sense he‘ foék t’o it so well that he beat Mr ‘Pike Pease for the repreeenrtation of Darlington in P'arli.ament ‘by 29 votes. For a. year he sattin the British -[House of Commons with M.P. after his name. But he then resigned on the score «of expense. When wax-’broke out he was on the Continent, and he promptly came back ‘to England, and now that he is unceremoniously to be sent» out of the country, it is interestfing to .‘reca!ll that the self-confessed spy was Hungal'i:;n censor at the G.P.O. in August, 1914, and tried to enter the British Secret Service in the follmving.December.

Having failedinthat ,he went to Betterdam and was engaged by the chief of the German Secret Service in HOl- - as a. spy in England. When he returned in January he again attempted to enter the Secret Service. After that second failure, finding himself under suspicion, he bolted to America and published his spy confessions in the New York ‘World. Arrested in the United States for forgery committed in England, he was presently extradited, w:as‘brought to England and was convicted. All his “three years” he served in the famous Isle of Wight convict prison. ‘

V No (101113; he will be giving “remarkable” interviews to the foreign, press before long.

Apparently he intends to go straight to Budapest, from which city he will endeavour to secure publication for his serial ih England and in America and Germany.