A DOUBLE MURDER

Southland Times, Issue 19157, 29 January 1924, Page 5

A DOUBLE MURDER

A FIENDISH CRIME. LINCOLN’S CONFESSION. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association). NEW YORK, January 27. Warren Lincoln had modified his confession of wife murder many times, until he 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. He burnt the bodies, but says that he debated long as to what to do with the heads. Finally he cast a hollow concrete block and placed the heads inside a sealed block, and gave it to a garbage man. The police hurriedly searched the city dump, and found the block as Lincoln described it. Inside were human remains. For diabolical cleverness in concealing all the evidence of the crime the police regard Lincoln’s work as one of the most remarkable on record.

A previous message stated: The arrest of Warren Lincoln, the second cousin of President Abraham Lincoln, at Chicago, has solved a strange case of double murder. He confessed that he shot Byron Shoup, of Aurora, Illinois, and later killed his own wife by beating her on the head with a poker. Shoup was Lincoln’s broth-er-in-law, and Lincoln was dissatisfied with his domestic relations. He first threw the police off 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 home. He took other clever measures to deceive the detectives, but they succeeded in unravelling the plot. Shortly 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.