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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, CLINTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1924
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MURDERER OF COUPLE
CONFESSES TO KILLING
Warren J. Lincoln Who Disappeared
Last April Admits Takinf Life
of Wife and Her Brother.
Aurora, 111., Jan. 13".—Warren J.
Lincoln, lawyer-horticulturist and
distant relative of Abraham Lincoln,
whose disappearance from his home
here last April caused police to believe
he had been murdered, today confess
ed killing his wife after she had shot
and killed her brother, Bryan Shoup,
according to police.
• According to Lincoln’s confession,
his wife shot her brother three times
during a violent quarrel and he, fear
ing she would turn on him, stnick
her down with a stove poker and then
hacked their bodies to pieces, burn
ing them in the greenhouse furnace
near by.
Lincoln was arrested in Chicago
last night on a charge of swindling
his brother-in-law, John Shoup, Lin
coln, 111., of $500. His confession,
according to police, came with the
first few questions of
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murder and implicated his wife and
brother-in-law.
Lincoln, according to the alleged
confession, had trouble for months
with his wife and brother-in-law.
The quarrel was precipitated by an
attempt of his wife, he said, to poison
him with “drugged” cocoa. Bryan
Shoup upbraided her for “her clumsi
ness” when he poured the contents of
the cup into a bottle with the inten
tion of having it analyzed.
Becoming angry at her brother’s
words, the wife is said to have gone
into her bedroom, seized a revolver
and shot her brother three times. It
was then, Lincoln said, that he feared
she would turn on him in her frenzy
and he seized a stove poker and
struck her.
Then he said he set about cutting
the two bodies into small pieces and
took them to the greenhouse furnace,
where he burned them and the blood
stained clothing, explaining the next
day that they had quarreled and his
Wife and Shoup had left.
Almost from the night of the mur
der, Lincoln said, he began planning
his own disappearance, which would
take on the aspects of a murder and
implicate his wife and her brother.
In April he carried out the plan and
then traveled Blast, watching the pro
gress of the search for his body and
the supposed murderers through the
newspapers.
He disarranged the furniture of the
house, opened the window of his bed
room, smeared blood on the window
sill, took his nightdress and cap, to
gether with a glove of his wife,
smeared blood on them and dropped
them into a well in a nearby field.
He left an Indian club in the green
house close beside a pool of blood.
His brother, Edward, living near
by, told the police of the quarrel be
tween his brother and his wife, when
police began investigation of what
they believed was the murder of War
ren Lincoln. The wife and brother
Were sought for questioning, descrip
tions broadcast but no trace of them
found.
Nearly .two months later Lincoln
telegraphed Aurora police from Chi-
$10.00; Mrs. Lide Bailey, Clinton, S.
C., $4.00; Mrs* Fannie Bailey, Clin
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Whitmire, S. C., $1.00; Miss Mayme
Leake, Clinton, S. C., $1.00; Mrs. Guy
Copeland, Clinton, S. C., $6.00; Mr.
Jim Young, Whitmire, S. C., $20.00;
Mr. David Duncan, Clinton, S. C.,
$20.00; Mrs. Mary Setzler, Whitmire,,
S. C., $20.00; Mr. Thomas Owens,
Clinton, S. C., $10.00; Mrs. Julia Grif
fin, Clinton, S. C., $5.00; Mr. J. A.
Chandler, Clinton, S. C., $1.00; Mr.
L. D._, McCrary, Clinton, S. C^ $2.50;
Mr». Sallie Hamp Farr, Clinton, S.
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ton, S. C., $5.00; Mr. John M. Cope
land, Renno, S. C., $10.00; Mr* J. H.
Bell, Renno, S. C., $6.00; Mrs. J. F.
Bell, Renno, S. C., $10.00; Mrs. Liz-
cago that he was waiting for them
in a hotel there and, when returned
to Aurora, told of a kidnapping by
a dope ring of which his wife was
supposed to a member, of being tak
en East and finally of his escape and
return.
Police dropped the case and Lin
coln returned to his greenhouse but
seemed dissatisfied. He turned his
business over to his brother and dis
appeared again. Shortly after he be
gan writing letters to relatives, ask
ing for money in the name of his
wife, they said Police took up their
search again and last night found him
in Chicago. He was returned here on
the charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses.
Today, in the presence of several
police officers and a stenographer, As
sistat State Attorney i Amell began
with the usual questions as to his
name, residence and age.
When he asked, “Where is Bryon
Shoup?” Lincoln replied quietly,
“He is dead.” Then continued with
his alleged confession. The charge
of obtaining money under fale pre
tense will be permitted to stand and
Attorney Amell said he would con
sult with his superiors before mak
ing a definite charge in connect!oh
with the case tomorrow.
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