The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27
VICTIMS HEADS
 FOUND ON DUMP
Police At Lincoln's Direction Discover Them Sealed In
 Concrete Block

crete, the hands of Mrs. Lima Lincoln and Byron Slioup, her brother, were found today in a damp heap here by the authorities working under the di. rection of Warren J. Lincoln, eccentric lawyer and horticulturist, accused of the murder.
 Making his fourteenth statement mad his fifth confession ii,> as many days, Eincoln early today told his question CTS that he had shot both his wife and her brother, hacked their bodies to bits mad buried the pieces, sealed their heads in a block of concrete which he used for time as sup port under his porch and then threw it in the city dump. Then the awyer-horticulturist, who claims relationship to Abraham Lin coin. clamly led the authorities to the dump, pointed out spot and told them to dig, giving them hints when they were getting "warm." When the fcon- crete block in which he had cast the heads. of his wife and brother in law was exposed, Lincoln swooned. e-t.5 f
 Lincoln's latest confession. the first that is supported by evidence, left him unnerved, but tonight the authorities were questioning him in an effort to learn any new details of ~ the grue- some crimes he now admits.
 As soon as the concrete block, 24 inches long, IS inches wide and q foot thick, had been uncovered, excited officials hurried with it to the Aurora police station where it was pounded to pieces with sledges until the two heads were revealed. 's,.. '< 2
 Hairless Skull
 One of htem. that which the author- itieS are confident is tie skull of Mrs. Lincoln was without hair and was unrecognizable The other, though Ladly deconposed. was identified by means of red hair and the shape of the head as that of Shoup.
 Lincoln had been questioned every day since his arrest in Chicago two weeks ago. First he said he killed his wife after Mrs Lincoln had shot her brother and threatened her husband. Then he made other statements at variance with his confession until his story was little more than mass of confessions, repudiations and state- ments often found untrue. .
 Early this morning, Frank Michels. chief of police, confronted him.
 Why don't you tell the truth, War. ren: Think of your old mother.'' he said. Lincoln was touched.
 "Oh, all right. you've been good fellow. I'll tell you the truth,'' Lin coin replier. And he calmly told the tale of one of the most gruesome crimes in the history of the state.
 Lincoln said he had violent quarrels With his wife and her brother and de- ciilel to shoot them when he learned of an unnatural love affair between them. This discovery was made on January l, 1925. e
 I shot them both,f he told the chief. T became enrased and shot Byron with aN pistol. Then went to the green house. got rifle. came back, drew it on Lima and fired When I shot Byron he attempted to rise from where he lay and fell back dead. Lima died withou moving from the bed.
 Kept Bodies All Night
 This, he said, was late in the day and he kept the bodies in the house that night, Ne2r day. he snid, he car Fed 5oht LoIies to the basement of the house and buried them under a coal pile. 4 few days later he dug them out and dismembercd them. hacking the Lodies to pieces and Lurying the pieces. Then he said he cast q concrete block and placed the heads of his victims in it after wrapping them in buriap.
 The Block. he said, he placed under a corner Of the sleeping porch to make 1t appear as porch support. He stayed at the house for two months and ex- aetly two months later, on March 10, flied divorce suit against his wife. About the same time he filed $1O., 100 damage suit against Shoup at Lincoln. III. chalging alienation of his wife's affections. -
 With the bo;,ies of his victims dis l.oSed oi' and rhe suits against them filed, Lincoln then prepared his next stsp-his disappearance. with evidence that he had been murdered by his own victims left lehind.s.
 On April %. the eccentric lawyer vanished. leaving behind garments which he later said he ai:ed ili chi ken blood some 'f lis wife's blood soaked cloth. n%, ll3ua stained Indian club and a 7 |>" 'l.sarr0nged as- by d terrific N.rG" le.
 W,r authorities s:alted search for Nh &.' lvd Mrs. Lincoln, in the belief tha, t..cy had slain Lincoln and dis pase If the body. The search was stiu ill prugl ess when the lawyer-horticuI. tuiist na,.e his reappea anve on June 10. He declared he had been kidnaneJ by "a band lei by his wife. and her brcther.
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