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Miss Emma Schultz
1873 – 1905
John G. Traeumer
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1905
Schulz, Emma, b. Feb 28,
1873, d. Sep 12, 1905, Sec 21
Watertown Gazette, 09 15 1905 [Article includes pic]
GIRL DROWNED !
The Body of Miss Emma Schultz Found in Rock River
A Peculiar Case That May Develop Startling Testimony
An Inquest Now Being Held
The body of Miss Emma Schultz, daughter of Louis Schultz and wife,
residents in Madison Street, this city, was found floating in Rock River just
east of the Lutheran
Home for Feeble-Minded at about 8:30 o’clock Thursday a. m. Wednesday
evening
She went boat riding with “Hans” Traeumer, son
of Major George P. Traeumer. The boat was found half full of water near
where the body of Miss Schultz was found.
The whereabouts of Mr. Traeumer is at this
writing unknown. Some are inclined to
the belief that his body will be found in the river, but others think he has
“skipped out.”
The circumstances surrounding the case are peculiar, and there is a possibility
that Miss Schultz met her death by foul means.
She was 30 years of age and has always born an excellent
reputation.
At this writing an inquest is being held, and some startling testimony
may be developed. The body was found by
Major Traeumer and Ed. Gloger, who went on a search
along the river, knowing the couple to have gone boat riding the previous
night.
Is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery
TRAEUMER’S BODY FOUND
The Mystery of the Drowning of Miss Emma Schulz Solved
A Very Sad Case
Watertown Gazette, 09 22 1905 [Article includes pic]
Thirteen certainly proved an unlucky number for two of Watertown’s best
known families, when on the evening of the 13th inst. John G. Traeumer, son of Major George P. Traeumer
and wife, and Miss Emma Schulz, daughter of Louis Schulz and wife, went boat
riding in Rock river in the full enjoyment of life and by the capsizing of
their boat, were drowned on the north shore of Rock River where it flows west
of Second Street bridge, about two-thirds the distance from that bridge to the
Silver Creek bridge. The following
morning the young lady’s body was found in the river at that point, and her
companion’s whereabouts not being known for several days, it led to many
uncalled-for and uncharitable remarks, but on Sunday morning when his body was
found in the river at about the same place, a sigh of relief was felt on all
sides and those who a short time before
might be heard making severe remarks joined with the multitude in extending
sympathy to the families of the dead ones, and in regretting that so sad an
accident occurred within the limits of our fair city. Mr. Traeumer’s body
was found Sunday morning at about 8 o’clock by Ed. Gloger and Bob Sell and was
taken from the river by Henry Traeumer, a brother of
the deceased. Dynamite had been exploded
the previous afternoon in the vicinity where the body was found, and it is
supposed this raised it to the surface.
Miss Schulz’s funeral was held Sunday afternoon from her late home to
St. Mark’s Lutheran church and her remains were interred in Oak Hill
cemetery. The remains of Mr. Traeumer were taken to Milwaukee on Monday and interred in
Rose Hill cemetery.
The district attorney of Dodge County did not consider it necessary to
hold and inquest over the remains of Mr. Traeumer and
the inquest over the remains of Miss Schulz set for the 27th inst.,
will probably be dropped also.
This is one of the saddest accidents that has ever occurred here, and
when the final outcome became known, the charitable and sympathetic impulses of
our people so generally manifest was indeed edifying, and the afflicted
families share the heartfelt sympathy of all our people in their sadness.
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Watertown Republican, 09 20 1905
One of the saddest accidents that has happened in this city for a long time occurred Wednesday evening, in the drowning of Miss Emma Schultz and Mr. John Traeumer, both of this city, in the Rock river near the island opposite the Home for the Feeble Minded, by the capsizing, it is supposed, of the boat in which they were rowing, whether by collision or the boat running into a stump below the surface of the water will probably never be known. . . . The county attorney of Dodge county in which county the sad accident occurred, having decided that an inquest was unnecessary, as there was no doubt but the young people met their untimely deaths by an accident.
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