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Tomb raider: A plot doomed to fail

By Tim Mitchell
Sunday February 12, 2006

BUCKLEY – Security personnel have performed regular patrols near Abraham Lincoln's grave in Springfield for 130 years as a result of a plot by a Buckley man and his gang to steal Lincoln's body from his grave and hold it for ransom.

The scheme was foiled by the Secret Service.

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