People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — SHOT DEAD. [ARTICLE]

SHOT DEAD.

A Bank President Kills the Alleged Destroyer of His Home. Chattanooga. Tenn., Feb. 7.—J. B. Wert, a prominent insurance man, and hitherto a leader in church circles, was shot dead Monday afternoon by G. N. Henson, president of the Citizens’ Bank & Trust company, whose wife Wert is alleged to have led astray. Some time ago divorce procedings were begun by Henson but dropped Monday afternoon as Henson was coming down in an elevator of the Richardson building Wert stepped in. As they reached the first floor Henson opened fire, killing Wert at the second shot.