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Lincoln theft plot and body recovery story from 1879
A lengthy account recalls a 1879 plot to steal Abraham Lincoln’s body from a tomb in Springfield. The scheme involved counterfeiters, a Western Union chief spy, and an expert recruiter who planned to exhume the casket and seize a body, with a $200,000 ransom rumored.
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