TRIED TO TRAP THE FLEET.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3316, 21 October 1919, Page 7

TRIED TO TRAP THE FLEET.

.-\L\l.\ZL\'Gr AND NOTORIOUS ROGUE

The man who tried to trap the B-ritissh Fleet, Ignatius Triblich Lincoln, Darlingtons disloyal ex-M..P., has recently been deported to Hungary, his native land. Great Britain is now free of one of the most amazing and notorious rogues that came to light during the

gl'c:it. wax". V His career is almost unique. Nobody of recent years has had a history like his——luckily. He w.zl.s born 2011 the banks of the Dallube,'of parents who were Hllng:ll'ian Jews. After an exciting and cheqtlered early life he be—came. a converti to Chl"lstian'lfy, and went to Germany and Canada to study t.heoLc=gy. Two years aftel-wards he was appointed Pl'esbytel'ian ministex‘ at Mom treal. The next. year he was made a deacon of the Anglican Church by the Al-c‘hbishop of Montreal. He 1-esignod his curacy, giving the explanation 01’ “over-'work” for his action.

In 1904 he went. to England, after a stay of some months in Gremiaily, and became eumte of Appledore, a small village in Kent, After :1 time he lesigiiecl his 01'de1'.< and became private secretary to B. S. Rowntx-ml, on whose behalf he tr-a_velled extensively on the Continent. He then took up politics, and selected Darlingtoxi for his constituency. After a. strenuous c.alnp:x:igll,‘in which his wonderful gifts or orato'l'y stood him in good stead, he sueceededin defeating Pike Peuse by 29 votes. Fort ne§Ll'ly a year he was Darlington’s M.P., and then resigned on the ground of expense. vThe next heard of him was that he had eompoundea to his,.Cl'Cdit—'Ol's- for <_l-./ in the £l, his liabiliidies being over £17,000.

Lincoln then took to travelling in Ronmania and .Gal'lei:l, and in. August, 1914, he was back again in London, with an appoilltment at the general post loffice, as Hullgal'lan censor. After that he; went to Germany (having failed' in his attempt to become attached to the British Sec-ret Service), and getting in touch wlith the ‘Gel*ma.n Secret Service, was sent back to England 011 :1, spying exped.'lt'lon.

Upon arrival there he again made an effort to join the British Secret Se):vise. The authorities, however, were far too wide awake for Mr Lincoln, who qiriclilyz came to the conclusion that Great Britain was not ‘a. healthy place for him, and bolted to America. In this country (says the New York Tribune) he seems to have given himself up ,to publicly declaring his hafreél for England zzincl everything English. He became obsessed with the desire to do the Bl'i_t!isli Empire a. bad turn, and did everything that was in his power to aid German propagan‘da.

Towa.'rds- the end of August‘, 1915, he was arrested aTßl'ooklyn for forging a guarantee purporting ,to be signed by B. S. Roxvntrce, and with. obtaining £750 and £l5O by false pretences. _

Chi‘e'f.lnspecto-: A. Ward. o‘nc of the best -d,etec’i‘i-veg Sc0111:—1.11d ¥ard ever possessed (and who later was killed in an air I‘ai<l”‘ifi London), came to New York to take Lincoln back to stand tl‘ial_ ‘ _

Lincoln, however. ‘did not wish to go to England, and used every delaying artifice pbssiblo. 'He even went: so far as to escape. from prison. But in the: end he “jag brouglrt back to London, tried, and sentenced to three years at lmard labour for ’forgel'y. ; This sehtcncc has now been served, and HlO Home Secretary, after cancelling‘ his 11atL11'alisali011 papers, has 01'(le1'0(l his d‘e"porfa—‘rion to HulTgrfil'y'.

During his Stay in New York, LinCOI]I,WTOh'-‘, his I":imhus book, “Revolutions._ of an In'ferllational Spy,” in which 110 told the story of how he tried to trap a portion of the British fir-ct. and place it in such a position that it could be pounded out of cxistcilce.