The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-31
MoxE ABOUT OLLIE GERMAN.
The Plot Thicxens in Her Case--Story of
Mrs Tankersly.

Mrs. Tankersly, who was reputed to
! know a good deal about the Kidnapped
! girl, Ollie German, was visited yester-
/ day by reporter for the Eagle to OBJ
tin her version of the affair.
! Mrs. Tankersly, while evidently very
poor, is bright energetic woman who
/ knows a good deal about the world and
its affairs.
Il don't exactly know where and how
to commence to tell you what l know -
said Mrs. Tankersly, rather embarrass
ed.
What DO you think of the Ollie Ger
main case?"
Il think it is mighty strange I'll the
way through. OF course, you under
that name until Mrs. Mooney told NE
in letter she wrote from Minnesota"
who is Mrs. Mooney"
Mrs. Mooney was a neighbor of our
who got a divorce from her husband.
Don't you remember last year when
you wrote about the mad dog biting a
bicycle rider? That was Mrs. Moon
eyS dog
What did she know about the case?"
when she got a divorce from her
husband she went back to her old home
at Rockford. Mimi. There she met
Mrs. Older. and Mrs. Mooney saw at
glance, so she writes in her letter, that
Lena, who is the supposed Ollie Ger
main. bore a strong likeness to her
She then heard that Mrs. Older. former
~ Mrs. German, lost a child years ago.
The result was that Mrs. Mooney wrote
n rae to get Lena's picture and send il
to her which did When she show
ed it to Mrs. Older the latter reccgniz-
ed Lena as her daughter"
What happened next"
The next thing that happened was
sN,z-
see Lena and find out whether there
was a mark on her arm. l pretended
that / wanted 10 fiji a dress on her and
got her over to my house. | eXamin-
ed her arm as well as L could hut 50 Y
no marks there except one which she
said her stepfather gave her when he
beat her. Mrs. Mooney also asked me
TO ask the girl whether she ever re-
memhered being called Ollie"
Did you ask herr"
II did. and she told me that she was
called Ollie when she was small. but
could not think what her other name
was. / don't blame her for she had
too many names to think Of. She was
called Dot and DOLL. and Lena. very
time Mrs. Wolf had a new husband the
girls name would be changed"
''Was Mrs. Wolf in the habit Of chang
ing husbands often?"
she had four of them and now II IS
said that she has the fifth. That is
what Mr.. Chandler told me-"
who is Mr.. Chandler"
He was her fourth husband"
What has become of him."
He has gone over to Coffeyville 70
marry another woman"
What did he say about his ex-wife?"
HE said that he thought she had
gone off with a man that delivered gro
ceries for a store on North Main street.
| don't know his name. He told me
that the man used to come to see his
daughters apparently. but that he
knew he came 10 see his wife; that he
found Il out"
HOW did she get The name Of Wolf?''
That was her third husbands name
He is an old man that sells hay. He
got a divorce from her and she married
chandler. They didn't get along well
together. Nobody could get along
with her somehow. She was young
herself. too, and all her husbands are
old men
What was the matter with herr"
"She was fair looking bur she used
to chew and smoke and was 2 great
hand to go 10 the salvation army meet
ings"
What was the trobule between her
and W0lf?"
The frs, trouble was Ike this Wolf