EP. 33- Beer, Love and Murder: A Tale of 3 Emmas
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In 1914, San Antonio beer magnate Otto Koehler was killed by his mistress, Emma. His former mistress, also named Emma, was present. Was it self defense? Was it planned? Did she get him before he got her? What became of his wife named, yes, Emma? Some said it was murder, some said self defense. Some said Otto attacked his killer, some said he would never have done that. One Emma claimed Otto was desperately in love, another Emma advised he was just desperate. What did the jury say? Hear the strange story of the death of one of Texas’ most prominent citizens in the latest episode of Wise About Texas.
Gov. T.M. Campbell represented Emma 3
Sen. Carlos Bee represented Emma 2
Emma Koehler, CEO (Emma 1)
Emma “Hedda” Bürgermeister (Emma 3)
Otto Koehler
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | This is your host, Ken Wise, |
| 0:14.2 | and I appreciate you tuning in today |
| 0:16.6 | to listen to a little Texas history. |
| 0:18.6 | I want to start this episode by thanking everyone |
| 0:21.8 | who provided such great feedback on the last episode about the failed French colony |
| 0:26.7 | Shamp DeSille. I got a ton of feedback and frankly a ton of downloads on that episode. I hope you're sharing the show with your |
| 0:33.2 | friends and I had some really great reviews of that show but also some |
| 0:39.6 | interesting input from various folks that know a lot about that time period in Texas history. |
| 0:45.0 | One in particular I want to thank is James Burnson of Austin, Texas, |
| 0:49.7 | for giving me some great material related to the episode. |
| 0:53.8 | He also shared with me his master's thesis on the Gutierrez McGee expedition and the |
| 0:59.0 | filibusters of Texas during the time of Champ-Disiel and the way that the Frenchman fit into that whole picture. |
| 1:07.7 | And so I think I've got some good ideas from Mr. Burson on maybe some additional things to talk about and maybe we can get him on the show. |
| 1:15.4 | So I want to thank him for sharing that with me. |
| 1:18.0 | Well today we're going to talk about beer, sort of. We're going to head over to San Antonio and |
| 1:26.7 | we're going to discuss a pretty interesting tale of intrigue, love, and |
| 1:31.2 | murder. So grab yourself a cold beer and for this episode love and |
| 1:35.0 | for this episode it needs to be a pearl |
| 1:37.0 | and we're going to go back to 1914 and get wise about Texas |
| 1:41.0 | first let's talk about a little background. In episode 25 when we talked |
| 1:46.2 | about Jacob Broodback we mentioned the German immigration into Texas in the mid-1800s |
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