LOPEZ’S CAREER

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12869, 23 May 1936, Page 5

LOPEZ’S CAREER

t'OBMERLY A magician. Ui.l’.A. by Elec. Teh O'oyngbtJ. (Received May 22, 11 .-I p.m.). LONDON, May 2?

The Daily Mail says it has. <> on traced thi.it Lopez’s real name is Henry Lawrence Bernstein. Ho war, born in Melbourne, in 1572 and changed his name to Lawrence during wartime and, for “business reasons,” to many others s.nce. JTo was formerly a music hall magician and was last week tolling in(l Miners that he rnet Colonel Mozler at an hotel in the Strand, but the colonel had gone abroad. The fhot.s aro that Lawrence- was living at Merton, a London suburb, at an address Me.zIbr used in communications ivith the Abyssinian Legation.

■ Ltaw r cnce admitted his identity to the Daily Herald after a two-hours’ visit to tho War Office, where ho Hilly revealed to Intelligence officersMiis six months’ work '."or the Italian Embassy. Yet, when Mr. Arthur Hcndonson asked in the House of Commons if the police were aware «• Lopez’s whereabouts. Sir- John Simon replied, “I 'shouldn’t think so.” The Daily Herald adds that Lawrence lias been at Morton for several months, except when he visited Bate-, on May 18 at Birmingham. Lawrence siiid the Italians did not pay him a penny apait from expenses. “That, is why I broke away from them.’’ bo added.