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Bertha Schultz and Fremont Emmons worked at the Exchange Hotel in Pawnee City. -
Fremont Emmons
It happened on July 26, 1888. No one is left alive who cares or even remembers. But on that summer day 132 years ago a young girl was murdered in Pawnee City. Her name was Bertha Schultz. There was an associated incident. Many vaguely know that a man was lynched at the railroad bridge, but when I first heard this no one seemed to know who or why. Guesses were made that he must have raped a girl…