DOUBLE MURDER
AN ILLINOIS GRIME. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, January 14. (Received, January 15, at 10.30 a.m.) The arrest of Warren Lincoln, the second cousin of President Abraham Lincoln, at Chicago has solved a strange case of double murder. Ho confessed that ho shot Byron Shoup, of Aurora, Illinois, and lator killed his own wife by beating her on the head with a poker. This double crime was committed a year ago. Lincoln admitted cutting off the heads and legs of his victims and burning the bodies.
Shoup was Lincoln’s brother-in-law, and Lincoln was dissatisfied with liis domestic relations. He first throw the police oil the scent by claiming that he and the two victims were kidnapped by a Chicago “dope” ring. Torn portions of Lincoln’s nightshirt were found scattered on a path leading from his country homo. He took other clever measures to deceive the detectives, but they succeeded in unravelling tiro plot.
Shortly" 1 after the crime Lincoln disappeared, and the police for a time worked under the belief that his wife and Shoup had killed him and had gone off together.—Sydney ‘ Sun * Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18532, 15 January 1924, Page 4
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187DOUBLE MURDER Evening Star, Issue 18532, 15 January 1924, Page 4
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