Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1910 — KILLS WIFE’S PARAMOUR. [ARTICLE]

KILLS WIFE’S PARAMOUR.

Jacob Walters Shoots Albert Johnson at Kouts Last Fri- * day. Valparaiso- Ind., Dec. 16. —Albert Johnson, of Warren, Ohio, was shot and killed early this morning in the barn back of the Glissman Hotel at Kouts, Ind., a summer resort on the Kankakee river, kept by Jacob Walters. Johnson came to Kbuts a year ago as Superintendent of the W. L. Anderson & Company’s flour mills. He was taken up by society and met Mrs. Walters at a ,dancing party. It was a case of mutual admiration and John- - <9 .

I son’s became so marked as to excite comment. The matter readhed the ear of Mr. Walters. One day in August, Waltprs alleges, he discovered Johnson in his wife’s room and he ordered him away at the point of a revolver. The couple continued to meet clandestinely, according to Mr. Walters, and his wife was missed from her room this morning and when Walters spied her coming : from the barn, he seized a shotgun and entered the building. He found Johnson hiding in a corner and he fired two shots. The first charge tore away the left side of Johnson’s head and the second nearly severed the right arm at t’.e shoulder. Johnson died within a few moments and Walters walked to the Deputy Sheriff’s office and gave himself up. The Coroner at the inquest returned a verdict of justifiable killing. Walters is wealthy and his wife is considered one Of the most beautiful women in northern Indiana. She was a great favorite at the Glissman Hotel, patronized by people from all-over the country’ during the hunting and fishing seasons. Mrs. Walters it was reported to the Coroner, locked herself in a room with her maid after the shooting and refused to obey a summons to the inquest.