Executed
Albert P. Talbott
Albert P. Talbott was held in the Maryville jail in Nodaway County, Missouri, and was hanged there on July 22, 1881, in what the Iron County Register reported as the first legal execution in the county. According to the paper, a large crowd watched the hanging, and before it Talbott ate a meal in the jail. He and his brother were taken by wagon to the gallows, where they knelt in prayer and then sat with crucifixes while priests read the service. His mother, other relatives and his fiancée had visited him at the jail to say goodbye, which the paper described as an affecting scene.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state