Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-16
STILL A MYSTERY.
Another Missing Man Who May Be ! the Victim Of the Shoe Box Tragedy | The Interest fn the Case Nos in the l
 

Another Missing Man Who May Be the Victim Of the Shoe Box Tragedy The Interest fn the Case Nos in she Least Abated.
 Yesterday was quiet as well as very beautiful day in the town of Wallingford, and as the sound of the church bells called
 the people of the place to divine worship 8 stranger would have little thought that just
 a week age the victim of horrible murder
 had been found within the boundaries of the
 town. After church small groups gathered
 on the street corners and in front of the post
 office, and in low tones talked over the mur-
 der and the probabilities of finding the mup-
 derer, showing that none of the interest in
 the case had yet abated. The theory that
 the murder was committed in the Yalesville
 slaughter house still continues to be ad-
 vanced by Wallingford people as the most
 sensible one yet advanced, owing to the fact
 that the coroner is said to have stated that
 he knows of a man who the box in
 butchers cart on the Yalesville road about
 six weeks ago. They also think that Station
 Agent Futile, of Wallingford, is the man who
 saw the box, he has repeatedly said he
 had some valuable information to give the
 State, and it is thought this is it. Whether
 the victim is the German butcher who used
 to work at the slaughter house and who is
 missing, or Charles Lincoln of Northford,
 WnO IS alSO missing, remains 8 mystery, ana it is thought it is one of the two mentioned, as Curran, Manville, Cooley and Gardner have all turned up safe and sound. Lincoln disappeared from the quiet village where he lived some six weeks or so ago and his friends | are terribly anxious about him, especially | since the victim of the murder mystery is 1 still unknown. Lincoln used to work in the | shop at Northford and was called a fine fel- | low, albeit his fondness for liquor used to get | the better of him. He was well l known in Wallingford and was in l the habit of coming there whenever l he got off on a spree. From what has been | known of him in past years it is not unfair | to suppose that about the time he disappear ed he came to Wallingford and proceeded to I get full. Whenever Lincoln got drunk it is f stated that he used to get fighting drunk, | and was always on the lookout for some one | with whom to fight.
 If he got into fight with some of Wal lingford's hard characters he might readily | have been killed and but few people have acquainted with Lincoln and he says that he hardly thinks the body could have been his, as he was too stout man, but number of people who were also with Lincoln will think that he was the man killed until he is found alive, or until it IS positively known that some one else was the victim.
 Constable Rod. Austin is doing all he can for the State in working up the case, and it was rumored yesterday that he had found some bones supposed to belong to the arms of the victim, but when the constable was found yesterday sitting in front of his office smoking cigar he gave the reporter to un- that 8 Pinkerton man is working up the case, and the citizens of Waflingford are anxiously awaiting startling developments in the case which are expected in few days.