Word: trebitsch
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...traveling salesman whose house he was attempting to rob. Some 50,000 English humanitarians signed a petition that the execution be delayed for a few days until the condemned man's father might arrive from Ceylon. The petition was denied. John Lincoln's father is the notorious Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, in 1910 a Liberal M. P. for Darlington, during the War an international spy for both England and Germany. Late in the week he reached the Netherlands by boat from Ceylon. He was informed by the British Legation at The Hague that his son had been hanged, that...
...Trebitsch-Lincoln. In the private files of European chefs d' espionnage, "Trebitsch-Lincoln" is listed under literally dozens of aliases, among which his original name is completely lost. It has been said of him that the world is his plaything. Certainly his attitude toward creeds and laws was that of a versatile bad boy playing with what toys he could misuse. His book, Revelations of an International Spy (McBride, 1916), was described by an amused U. S. diplomatist as "a spitball of wastepaper and spleen spat at his former European employers"; others professed to take seriously his arraignment...