The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-02-01
Trial Of a Remarkable Case in Missouri.

the murder of their father in Nodaway co..
NO., on the night of the 18th of last Sep
tember, which was fixed to begin on the
18th instant, deals with one Of the most
interesting cases that ever came before a
Missouri tribunal for hearing on account
of the peculiar circumstances attending
the commission Of the crime and the extern
sive acquaintance of the murdered man,
who had been for many years leading
citizen of northwest Missouri, having
represented Nodaway county in the
General Assembly twenty-five years ago,
and amassed fortune in the practice of
medicine. Several years ago tue doctor
gave up the active practice of his profess
sion, and devoted his time principally to
politics, having been originally Democat,
but latterly Greenbacker, and was
known as writer and speaker of more
than ordinary ability. The Chicago Times
has Maryville special giving the details
of the case
On the fatal Saturday Dr. Talbot reach
ed his home about o'clock in the
evening, when he repaired to his bed
room, where Mrs. Talbot and their son
Albert, familiarly called "Bud," were sit
ting. Soon after entering the room, the
doctor took off his coat and vest, as Mrs.
Talbot and her son testified at their pre-
liminary examination, and then sat down
on the side of the bed as though wishing
to rest before retiring for the night. Mrs.
I. at this time sat on the foot of the bed
facing her husband, while Albert sat in a
chair by the window. AS the father, moth
or and son were occupying these positions
in the room, an ounce and a half bullet
came crashing through the window, cut
ting off two of the Doctors fingers and
passing entirely through his body from
side to side, making a frightful wound
thence the bullet grazed the leg of Mrs.
Talbot and passed ON imbedding itself
in wooden partition of the room, where
it was afterward found.
The DOCTORS injury was at once pro-
nounced fatal. After receiving his death
wound he conversed freely with those
around him, dictated his will, and when
the fatal bullet was taken from its lodging
place in the Partition, he took it in hand,
and, after examining it carefully, remark
ed: "This means DEATH" And he was
right, for he died in great agony the next
day. During his conversation after being
shot, when asked if some member of his
household might not have shot him, he
gave evasve answers, and, if he knew
who his murderer was, he died with the
secret concealed in his breast From the
fact that the Talbot family had not lived
together very harmoniously for some time
past, it was believed by many that some
member of the family had taken his life,
but matters did not assume tangible
shape until reward of $500 was offered
by Mrs. Talbot for the arrest of her hus-
bands assassin.
The hope of securing this reward led
detective named Brighton to disguise him
self as a laborer and go to the Talbot man
sion and apply for work assuming tho
name of Frank B. Hudson. He succeeded
in finding employment on a neighboring
farm, where he and his wife whom he rep
resented as his sister, took up their abode.
Brighton alleges that the boys were fire.
queut visitors at his house and became
very intimate with both himself and " SIS
ter" and during one of those visits they
confessed to having killed their own father,
he alleging that said confession was made
in the hearing of his wife, who was con
cealed in IA closet off the room. Brighten
further swears that the boys hired him to
for $50 to kill their hired man, Wyatt,
whom, he says they feared, would reveal
the secret of the old mans death, he know
ing all the facts. Brighton alleges that,
in order to get into the confidence of the
boys, be signed AN article of agreement
drawn up by Albert Talbot, to effect that
they should go into the robbing of trains
mails and banks on large scale, and di-
vide the plunder. At the preliminary trial,
in proof of this latter statement, the detec-
tive submitted an article of agreement,
which he alleges was written by Albert
and of which the following is a copy, both
as to spelling and phraseology:
MONDAY, October 25th, 1SS0.-We this day
of the lord Eighteene hundred and Eighty
go in contract togather. Albert Z. Talbot,
Charles e. Talbot Wilfred Mitchell Frank B.
hudson togather for the purpose of Bank rob-
bin train robbin and staig robbu and safe and
each one shall be worn into the same to stay
togather until death in every attemped to OBJ
tain buty and in case any one betrays us of
our one deth is his portion at any time the first
trane or bank is Robed any one in the
bond can resine If he chooses, and if he
does resine he must keep all secrets or he shell
be killed and there must equal division of
the buty and before any trane is robed or any
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