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Show TO TAKE LINCOLN BACK TO LONDON NEW YORK, May 22. Chief Inspector In-spector Alfred Ward and an assistant from Scotland Ya rd arrived from Liverpool Liv-erpool today to take back t.j Kn gland the self-confessed German spy and former for-mer member of the British parliament, Ignatius T. L. Lincoln. Li ncoln is wanted in England to answer to a charge of forgery. His extradition was ordered by the supreme court pi the United States after Lincoln appealed to that coturt on a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that the real purpose of his extradition was to trvhim as a spy in England. Lincoln was first arrested here in August Au-gust lu?t year, but escape 1 from jail in the following November and was a-t liberty lib-erty until February last, when he was rearrested. |