Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-05-23

enei the man and dropped him TO the floor
where he lay in a pool of his own blood.
This is the story as told the JorRSAL by
+ Charles Fred Tabor, an eye witness to the
fearful deed
The shooting and outcry following drew
a crowd in a feg moments Deputy
Marshal sprague and Officer Wakefield
we're among the iirst to arrive. As they
stopped To pick up Talbot he begged them
not 10 90 for the doctor ia, he wanted to die
and wanted his wife to die
Doctors were summoned and word sent
to Coroner Chas. F. Kilbreth of Hallowell.
The woman was placed on 4 couch in the
room where she fell and Talbot himself
was placed on bed in the small room at
the head of the stairs. Doctors 6itiden>
+. f. Strout and Geo. F.. Friend were soon
at the scene of the shooting. Their atten-
ton was first given to the woman. Probes
were introduced and il was found that the
ball had passed just below the heart and
between the ribs where it was lost. Grave
doubts were expressed as no whether she
would live through the night.
The doctors then examined Talbot, and
found that the bali had entered above the
breast and penetrated the lung, causing a
hemorrhage. He failed rapidly from loss
OF blood, and expired at 1910. For the
hour in which he was slowly dying he
talked necessarily of the shooting, and eN-
pressed the desire that he might have the
pistol loaded again. but would give no rea-
son for his desire. Friends asked him the
motive of the act. but he would make no
answer. There is no doubt that he had
been drinking quite heavily during the day
bat those VINO saw him before the shooting
say he was not drunk and acted perfectly
rational.
coroner helhreth arrived with 'lty Mar
shal Norton II little later and took the testi-
mony of the Witnesses deciding that no IN
quest was necessary a' the man was dead
and nothing could he done. The revolver
was i2 calibre which Talbot borrowed Il
week ago from Chas Tabor, Talbot stating
that he was going up stream to his camp.
( Regarding the cause of the dead there are
different opinions. Mrs. Tabor stated TO
the loiEN Al. that on Monday last May 49,
Talbot came home drunk and ordered the
woman aud children down stairs. warning
them never 10 come into the house again.
They then went 10 her house where they
had lived since and where the crime was
committed. She had heard Talbot threaten
the life of his wife several times.
When asked if there was any
cause for jealousy she replied
that she knew nothing about that.
The general report on the street is that
the trouble was caused by intidelity on the
part of Talbot's wife. \ near relative of
the dead man tells the JorGSAL that Talbot
requested his wife to move away from there
some time ago hut she refused. They then
tod TulIDf fuk tho hny and hi.
wife the girl. In few days the boy joined
his mother and this seemed TO make him
feel badly.
lie took up drinking again, after keeping
sober for several months, and was some
what intoxicated saturday. lie says that
Talbot thought great deal of his wife and
never limited at her being untrue 10 him.
The JorRNAL reporter also talked
with one of Talbot's friends who was with
him the day of the shooting, He said
we were together from to Z o'clock
in the morning. At about : he Talbot
had II cents. lie spent 10 cents for Il
drink and as he joined me later on the cor
ncr near the Evans House he threw the re-
manning cent into the sewer basin exclaim-
ing that's for luck. He was feeling very
blue | did not see him again until after
Aii' -i''il'i- Niiti 7I'NN w hAhi a. Ut itf
on the bed He gave no word as to why
he had shot his wife or himself, lie never
spoke to me of his wifc'S iniidclitv although
have heard of il from others. He seemed
to think great deal of her"
lie also made some remarks which woul'l
indicate that the relations between Talbot
and his wife were not pleasant ON the wife's
account.
Sunday morning DR.. GiddingS visited the
woman and made another examination. He
thinks the ball is between the intestines and
lungs, although it cannot be located by the
prone. lie thinks 1t extremely doubtful II
,he hves longer than two or 'hrre days.
ms VIII leave the two ehiiorthi giri ABOUT
II ana BOY ahout IL fatheriess ana moth