A Family Scandal (1888)

I promised to feature stories about ancestors, in-laws, and out-laws.  Here is the story about the adventures of a Tinkler cousin, Charles Castley Tinkler (1868-1949), and his young bride, Tillie Meier, that appeared in several Ohio newspapers in 1888:

MRS. TINKLER'S RETURN.

Completely Discouraged By Her Adventures With the Young Forger.

CINCINNATI, Dec. 13.-A. H. Meier, of Mt. Lookout, who went to England after his sister Tillie, who eloped with Charles C. Tinkler, the young bank forger, has arrived home with the newly-made Mrs. Tinkler. It will be remembered that Tinkler and Tillie were married in Brooklyn by Justice Courtney, October 17, just before embarking for England. The young forger and his bride were caught in London by means of an intercepted letter that Tinkler wrote to William Hopkins, a friend in this city, and a son of the ex-cashier of the Fidelity bank, now at Columbus.

Mrs. Tinkler seems very much worried and worn by her adventures, which rivals those of the novelist's imagination, and not the same persen she was as pretty hearted, bewitching Tillie Meier. She says she was almost afraid to elope with or rather follow Tinkler, but was persuaded to do so by the Hopkins boys, who said something dreadful would result if she did not. Besides, she loved Tinkler, and that was a sufficient reason to induce her to go the ends of the earth with him.

Mrs. Tinkler has little to say about their adventures in London, but says when she discovered that the money was gotten by ill means she willingly gave up all the money in her possession, and also the jewelry and clothing they had bought.

It is not probable that the bank authorities will prosecute Mrs. Tinkler, although it is thought that her testimony will be secured in some way against her husband. Tinkler, in custody of the detectives, is now on his way to New York.

Source: Newark Daily Advocate, 13 December 1888, page 2, Newark, Ohio.