Evening star., 1924-01-27
TWO HEADS FOUND
IN CONCRETE BLOCK
Staying of Wife and Brother
in-LaW Admitted by Lin
coin, Police Declare.

AURORA. ILL.,, January 26.-Cast in
a block of concrete, the heads of
Mrs Lima Lincoln and Byron Shoup,
her brother, were found today in a
dump heap here by the authorities
working under the direction Of War
rem ]. Lincoln, eccentric lawyer and
horticulturist. who is accused of their
murder.
Making his fourteenth statement
and his fifth confession in as many
days, Lincoln early today told his
questioners that he had shot both
his wife and her brother. hacked
their bodies to bits and buried the
pieces. sealed their heads in a block
OF concrete. which he used for a
time as a support under his porch
and then threw 1t in the city dump.
Then the lawyer er-horttcuiturist
calmly led the authorities to the
dump. pointed out a spot and told
them to dig, giving them hints when
they were getting warm When
the concrete block was. uncovered.
Lincoln swooned.
Identified by Relatives.
A coroner's jury was summoned
late today and the heads of both
Mrs. Lincoln and Shoup were posi-
lively identified by relatives. Lin
coin appeared before the jury, was
asked a few preliminary questions,
and the jury then adjourned, sub
ject to call. Immediately after his
appearance befort the jury, Lincoln
told Charles Abbott, states attorney,
that he had not buried the dismem-
bered pieces Of his victims as he
said this morning. but had burned
them in the furnace of his green
house. He said he did not burn the
heads because he was afraid the
teeth would not be destroyed
Lincoln's latest confession, the first
supported by evidence, left him un-
nerved. but tonight the authorities
still were questioning him in an
effort to learn any new details Of the
gruesome crimes he now admits.
AS soon as the concrete block,
twenty-four inches long, eighteen
inches wide and a foot thick had
been uncovered, excited officials hur-
ried with 1t to the Aurora police
station. where 1t was pounded to
pieces with sledges until the two
heads were revealed. One of them,
that which authorities are confident
is the skull of Mrs. Lincoln, was
without hair and was unrecognizable.
The other, although badly decom-
posed was identified by means of red
hair and the shape of the head as
that OF Shoup.
Conflicting Statements.
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 hus-
band. Then Lincoln made other
statements at variance with his con-
fession until finally his story was
little more than a mass Of confess
slons, regulations and statements
often found to be untrue.
Early this morning Frank Michels,
chief Of police. confronted him "Why
don't you tell the truth, Warren?
Think of your old mother" he said.
"Oh. all right. You've been a good,
fellow. III tell you the truth" Lin
coin replied and calmly proceeded to
relate the story of the crimes.
Lincoln said he had had violent
quarrels with his wife and her
brother and decided to shoot them
when he claimed he discovered an
unnatural liaison between them. This
discovery was made January 10, 1929.
he said.
Says He Shot Both.
Il shot them BOTH" he told Chief
Michels. Il became enraged and shot
Byron with pistol. Then went TO
the greenhouse and got a rifle. 7
came back, drew aim on Lima and
fired. She died without moving from
the bed"
This. he said, was late in the day
and he kept the bodies in the house
that, night Next day he carried both
bodies to the basement and buried
them under a coal pile. A few days
later he dismembered them and
buried the pieces. Then he said he
cast concrete block and placed the
heads OF his victims in 1t after wrap
ping them in burlap.
The block, he said. he placed under
q corner of sleeping porch to make
II appear as porch support. He
months later. on March 10, filed a
divorce suit against his wife. About
tho same time he filed a $4,000 dam
age suit against Shoup at Lincoln,
Ill. charging alienation of his wife's
affections, -
Left Evidence of Murder.
With the bodies Of his victims dis
posed OF and the suits against them
hled, Lincoln then prepared his next
step-his disappearance. with evil
dence left behind that he had been
murdered by his own victims.
On April 80 the eccentric lawyer
vanished. leaving behind garments
chicken blood, some of his wife's
hlood-soaked clothing. a blood-stained
Indian club and a house disarranged as
by terrific struggle.
The authorities started search for
that they had slain Lincoln and dis
posed of the body. The search was
still in progress when the lawyer
horticulturist made his temperance
June 10. He declared he had been
and her brother.
Apparently there was no cause to
doubt his statement, and Lincoln re-
turned to his Aurora home. Then he
told Chief Michaels the concrete
the city dump and buried 1t. Shortly
thereafter Lincoln again disappeared,
but the authorities had been quietly
checking up on his earlier statements
and became more suspicious when he
wrote letters to relatives in his
wife's name, asking for money. Lack
of funds. he had explained induced
him to come back to Aurora after
his first disappearance.
Arrested In Chicago.
Two weeks ago he was arrested
in Chicago. Brought here he startled