Unraveling A Mystery: Part 2 (1913)

Yesterday’s article raised several questions.  Is this Agnes Tinkler my relative or a member of one of the other Tinkler families living in Decatur at the time?  Who was Charles Tinkler?  Agnes’s only brother was Clancy and he was very much alive in 1913.  Another brother, Christopher, died in infancy before she was born.  Half-brother?  Her parents’ marriage record identifies their marriage as their first.  No half-siblings are known to exist.

 

From the Decatur Review, Saturday Evening, 17 May 1913, page 8 (Decatur, Illinois):

NO MORE SHORTCAKE FOR AGNES TINKLER

"Agnes Tinkler, the girl sent to jail for refusing to answer questions before the grand jury, had strawberry short cake and cream for dinner Saturday.  Her relatives brought the dainties to the jail and the girl had eaten before Sheriff Nicholson knew about it.

Judge Johns told the sheriff not to make the girl's stay in jail any too pleasant, but the sheriff did not anticipate any action on the part of relatives in the way of supplying the girl with dainties.  At noon the sheriff ordered that hereafter nothing be given the girl from the outside.  She will have to take the regular prison diet.

So far she has maintained her determination not to answer questions.  She is a sister of the girl who committed suicide by taking carloic [carbolic] acid after a quarrel with her lover a few days ago.

Saturday afternoon the girl was ordered returned to Geneva, the grand jury reporting no true bill in the case of John Judd, to testify against whom the girl was brought back."