The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-07-12
THE TALBOTTS.
The Confession Of the Talbot
Brothers.
Their Story Of the Murder OF DR.
Talbot. and How i. Wss
Done.

4 AO1OVSSp oo0 18OV 10 VIZ
Done.
| Below will he found The full conf-Ssics
Of the Tslt.O, brothers. Hal they swors
io this While On trial they vouid not mos
BE- lying under sentence VI death in the Si
Jo.eph Jail.
THE CoNYESsIOS
have concluded To tell all sbout the
killing oi Dr.. Perry u. Talbot. on the
night 81 the 18th of September lss'.
fred the fatal shot that sent him tn his
death. ! lid IL uudsr the following cir
cumsiance.
DR.. Talbot returned from the fair ct
Marysillr sbou; dusk On the evening Of
the 18th Of September, 1880. He e.ms
in q carriage With the children. Mrs.
Talbot, my mother, came to ArtOe on the
train. which il near our home. ] have
heard that Dr.. Talbot and Mr.. Talbot
had quarrel on the fair ground before
starting, but Of this know nothing per
sonaily. When the doctor arrived Of
home there vss . call for him to 90 to
Lightly, to attend sick child. He Or
Jered the boys (as he called us) to put up
hi. team and bring out HIS saddle mule.
The ~ did and he rode away. About 3
o'clock p. n, ~ they say, he returned.
! and Henry Wyatt had retired To Bad in
IN upstairs RON. Shortly after Ne heard
mother crying fur he.r, and ve ran down
stains aud entered the room where they
were. The sight that then heheld aP-
pailed me. Mother vas lying on the door
in front Of the bed; father wss kicking
her. How they got down cannot tell,
bu, when Henry Wyatt, and entered the
room father called for his revolver, which
vss lying ON the bureau nssr by and
grabbed The shos gun and shot him in the
back. Just after firing the shot my
brother. Albret r.. came in from the barn
where be had been, ~ they say, to put
away the mules, and he sssisted his father
to the bed. Henry Wyatt hsd nothing to
10 With the killing and went out Of the
room. Dr. Talbot then called u to the
bed and told IA thai the shot VA fatal and
that be must SOON die that he wanted TO
forgive and b forgiven. He briefly re-
counted the family troubles. and told IL
that &c must deny all. He wanted the
public to think that national hanks AMI
public corporations had hired en- ssa.-ia
10 kill kun, because Of his dr"nnciatio" oi
them in so,sr Of his speeches. tie urged
~ to obey hi. Instructions and keep sus-
picion oil u the family. Tai- eunrss we
haye pursueJ until jesth stared u. in the
face.
He urged ~ TO deny eli, and stand on
his denial, assuring Us that il would carry
IL through; that tn make our defence
snr~ he would make his will aud make ~
all distributes of his property end make
mother the s1ecatrix of hi, will. Father
Wa Ut times very cruel to mother aapl his
children; sas II wsn 81 d-sp-rste temper
vilh whom no one Could Irs-on. have
withheld this Of Atemem', willing tn undergo
any punishment rather than expose the
faults IL nv father, or let The world knOw
that had killed him To project ny mother,
Suspicion soOn conferred ON the fAo,ilv, and
ve were arrested upon the oath vi J. Y.
D.. "A
censure Of the public was terrible. What
my brother end have acid ha, beeo mag
ni6ed and Construed against Us Mitchell
and Brighton have fals,6-d from the he
ginning. II mu-i ~ 10 nv grave At the |
h snis III the esecutioner I shsii die de |
that both OF them have COM i
~i,ted perjury. Henry Wat Wa 80 !
frightened by being arrested that he knew
not what TODD. and swose, ! supposs, Ia
what his attorney told him. He lie weak.
minded and not reponsibIe. Sherman
barser told the truth. He Vas u
BUR house when Albert and I we're mold |
ing siug' o! lead in An susnr hole snd saw
W shoot one Of them 81 q TIRE. This, hov.
ever, wss a common occurrence. Fathers .
house bad been, and VA for years. an A.
'eosl. We have been taught 10 shoot FROM
,arly childhood, and learned hos to mold
he slugs 81 lead BY father himself. He
Ormeriy hunted deer and usesi those large
Hugs Of lead Tor thu, purpos~.
The fence bOsrds and ,s,sls about the
home place ore perforated wiih lead, which
. the r~.ult of ~ and father Il tim.s .hoot-
ng II marks I did M, hear father tell
Albert to take the xnn and run out 81 the
Rouse snd shoot - though he saw soase
me running aVay, hn, Albert has always
old me that he did.
have nov told all I know about THE
I'D homicide, which has bligh.ed the fu.
ure If the children Of DR.. Talbot which
'roueht ruin and disgrace upon me. and il
shsi did 10 murder, I am guilty.
Subscribed and sworn TO bsf,se me, in
be jail ii Buchanan county, NJ =, shis 5th
lay Of July, 1881.
CHARLES EDWARD TALBOT.
Sworn to b.f re b. ID. Cosan, clerk.
Witnesses F. N. Spencer and Henry
Z. Ramsey.
ST. JosEPH, Mo-, July S
have carefully sxsninsd the s,s,ement
Y confession Of ~ brother Charles Ed
sard Tolboti. A. to What occurred in the |.
'ouss On the night II The 18Th Of Septsuber
Turing ny ahseses, Of eourse do not know
MY - Eisard hes told me. do know,
however. vhai father said. He wanted
uspie,oa keps iron shs family. and told
- 70 take shs gun out and shoot as any
- I eoold - sbous The premises. and to
boot anyway. I obsysd bic order. he
ben talked over The family troablss and
old o. 10 desy any ksovlsdes Of hoe be