SPY’S SON.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 45, 22 January 1926, Page 9

SPY’S SON.

CHARGED WITH MURDER

“YOU BAD DEVIL.” LONDON, Jan. 9. Smartly dressed in -mufti, Bombardiers Stewart and Lincoln, of the Royal Horse Artillery, appeared in the dock at Trowbridge. They aro charged with the murder of Edward Richards, the brewery traveller, who was found, at 1 a.m., shot in the head, in a garden at Trowbridge. Lincoln is said to be a 6on of Trebitsch Lincoln, the notorious spy. For the prosecution, it was stated that Gunner Hanton, while sleeping in the same barrack room, saw Lincoln open a suit case belonging to Corporal Peachoy, extract a raincoat, put on a civilian hat, take a torch, and depart at 11 p.m. Next morning Ilanton said: -“You bad devil; you've been at it again!” Lincoln replied: “Keep quiet! It might be serious for me.” Investigation show that there was a blood spot on the lapel of tho raincoat. Lincoln was employed as- a clerk in the battery stores, and kept an automatic pistol and cartridges, which ho was seen to tako out prior to the murder. He was afterwards seen cleaning the revolvgr. Ho possessed also a “Bulldog” revolver, two of the bullets for which were found in Stewart’s pocket.

Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch Lincoln was formerly Liberal M.P. for Darlington. A Hungarian Jew, his career in England made one of the most astonishing chapters in tho story of the German spy campaign in that country. His spying activities began soon after the outbreak of war, when he secured a sort of probationary appointment in the British counter-es-pionage service. The authorities, however, soon suspected him, and finally he was ordorod to quit Britain. He went to the United States, whence, a month later, he was extradited on a charge of forgery. Brought back to England, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to-three years, at the end of which time he was deported.