Show I CONCRETE G CAST T REVEALS HE HEADS D DOf Of SlAIN PAm PAIR PAmI Warren Lincoln Finally Convinces Aurora Officers Offic Offic- ers That He Is the Murderer of His Wife AURORA Ill Jan 26 By yA A A. P. P P. P Cast Cast in a block of concrete the the heads of Mrs LIna and i Byron Shoup her brother were found today In a dump heap hereby hereby here hereby by the authorities working under the he direction of Warren J. J Lincoln eccentric lawyer and horticulturist who is accused of their murder Making l 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 th n threw in the Ithe the city dump LEADS POLICE TO SPOT Then the lawyer-horticulturist lawyer who claims relationship to Abraham AbrahamI Lincoln calmly led the authorities to the dump pointed out a spot and I told them to dig giving them hints when they were getting warm When the concrete block in which I he had cast the heads of his wife and law in was exposed Lincoln swooned Lincoln's latest confession the I first that is supported on evidence left him unnerved but tonight the authorities were still questioning him In an effort to learn any new details of the gruesome crimes he now admits TWO HEADS REVEALED As soon as the concrete block I 24 inches long 18 Inches Wide Vide and anda I Ia I a foot thick had been uncovered uncover d excited officials hurried with It jt to the Aurora police station where it was pounded to pieces with sl sledges until the two heads were revealed One of them that which the authorities authorities au au- au- au are confident Is the skull of ot Mrs Lincoln ln was without hair 1 and was unrecognizable The oth other J although badly decomposed lec w was was s identified by means cf of red redhair hair and the shape of the head heads s as s that of ot 1 Shoup Lincoln had been questioned every everyday everyday everyday day since his arrest in Chicago two weeks ago First he said he killed his wife after Mrs Lincoln had I shot her brother and threatened I her husband Then Lincoln made I other statements statements' at variance with his l s confession Lincoln said he had had violent quarrels with his wife and her brother and decided to fo o shoot them when he claimed he discovered an unnatural liaison between them This discovery was made on January January January Janu Janu- ary 10 1923 he said SHOT PAIR TO DEATH I shot them both he told Chief Michels I became enraged and shot Byron with a pistol Then I went to the green house and got a rifle I came back drew aim on Lina and fired This he said was late in the day dayan and an ho kept the bodies in the house that night Next day lay he sai said Y he he- carried both bodies to the basement of ot the house and bUried burled them under under under un un- un- un der a coal pile A few days later h he dug them out and dismembered them hacking the bodies to pieces I Continued on page 7 I CONCRETE CAST Continued from page 1 and burying the pieces Then When he said he cast a concrete block and placed the heads h ads of his victims In It after atter wrapping them In burlap The block he said he placed unI under under un un- I der del a corner of a sleeping porch toI to tomake tomake I make it appear as a al porch support He stayed at the house for two months and exactly two months later on March 10 filed flIed a divorce suit against his wife About the same time he filed a damage suit against Shoup at Lincoln Lincoln Ill In charging alienation of his wife's af- af af af- DECOYED OFFICERS On April 30 the eccentric lawyer lawyers 1 vanished leaVing leading behind garments which he later said he soaked In chicken blood some of ot his wife's soaked blood clothing fa a a bloodstained bloodstained bloodstained blood blood- stained Indian club and a house disarranged as If by a terrific gle The authorities started a search for Shoup and Mrs Lincoln in the belief bellet that they had slain Lincoln and disposed of the the body The search was still in progress when I Ithe the lawyer horticulturist made his reappearance on June 10 He lIe declared declared declared de de- de- de he had been by a band led ley y his w wife fe and her brother Apparently there was no cause to doubt his statement and Lincoln returned to his Aurora home Then he told Michels the concrete block worried him so he took It to the city dump and buried burled it 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 of his wife's asking for money Lacks of ot funds he had explained explained explained ex ex- ex- ex Induced him to to come back to Aurora after his first disappear disappear- ance Two weeks ago he was arrested in Chicago being located when he applied for a job and gave Aurora references Brought here he startled the authorities by admitting at once that he had killed his wife He maintained that he killed her after alter she had shot her brother and had threatened him Lincoln said he hacked the bodies to pieces and andI burned them in his greenhouse furnace fur fur- I nace Then da day after day dav he chan changed ted or retracted parts of his I confession until t today day he m made de the I statements that resulted in the finding finding find find- ing ot of the skulls HEADS HEAD IDENTIFIED A coroners coroner's jury was late l te today and the summoned heads Mrs bars Lincoln and Shoup both of were positively identified by rel relatives Lincoln Lin- Lin coln appeared before the jury juO eu wasand was asked a few preliminary questions and the jury then adjourned subject subject sub sub- to call Immediately ely atter his apPearance before the jury Lincoln tot told d Charles Abbott states state's attorney ney that he had not burled buried the d die dla- s pieces of leis his is victims ho said this morning bit but fJ as had burned the them n In the furnace c of t his greenhouse He said he did burn the heads not he was wa afraid the teeth W would Uld not be de- de |