DOUBLE MURDER
A FIENDISH GRIME, LINCOLN’S CONFESSION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. 1 NEW YORK, January 27. (Received January 28, at 11.30 a.m.) Warren Lincoln had modified his confession of wife murder many times, until ho has made a clean breast of the crime, admitting that he first shot his wife and then killed Byron Shoup. This was in January of last year. Ho burnt, tho bodies, but says that he debated long as to what to do with the heads. Finally ho cast a hollow concrete block and placed tho heads inside a sealed block, and gave it to a garbage man. Tho police hurriedly searched the city dump, and found tho block as Lincoln described it. Inside were human remains. For diaboiilcal cleverness in concealing all tho evidence of the crime the police regard Lincoln’s work as one of tho most remarkable on record.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.
(A previus message stated: The arrest of Warren Lincoln, tho second cousin of President Abraham Lincoln, at Chicago, has solved a strange case of double murder. Ho confessed that he shot Byron Shoup, of Aurora, Illinois, and later killed his own wife by boating her on the head with a poker. Shoup was Lincoln’s brother-in-law, and Lincoln was dissatisfied with his-domestic relations. He first threw the police off tho scent by claiming that he and tho two victims were kidnapped by a Chicago “ dope ” ring. Torn portions of Lincoln’s nightshirt wore found scattered on a path loading from his country homo. He took other clever measures to deceive the detectives, but they succeeded in unravelling tho plot. Shortly after the. crime Lincoln disappeared, and tho police for a time worked under tho boliet that his .wife and Shop had killed him and had gone off together.]
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Evening Star, Issue 18543, 28 January 1924, Page 8
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