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Show LASfSPYWRlTES TO BUREAU CHIEF Ignatius T. Trebich Lincoln Offers Of-fers to Surrender If Given Immunity From Forgery Charge. New York, Jan. 21. Captain William Wil-liam M. Offley, chief of the local bureau bu-reau of investigation of tho department depart-ment of justice, today received a letter let-ter from Ignatius T. Trebich Lincoln, tho confessed German spy who escaped es-caped from a United States deputy marshal last Saturday, in which the writer offered to surrender at once if guaranteed immunity from prosecution prose-cution on tho forgery charge which caused his arrest last August Captain Offloy declined to make pubiic Llpcoln's letter. Tho forgery charge was preferred by the British consulate here and he was being held In Brooklyn, pending extradition to England. Lincoln, a Hungarian by birth, but a naturalized English citizen and a former member of tho British parliament, parlia-ment, contended after his arrest that the British authorities did not wish to try him on tho forgery charge, but to execute him for his former espionage work In behalf of the German Ger-man war lntelllgonco office. |