Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-04-14
New York Broker,
Married to Two,
Says Nothing Illegal

Jersey City, N. j., April 1.-THE
strikingly strange case of a man who
lived with two wives in the same
apartment was revealed here today.
The man is Herbert Thornton An
drews, 30 years old, stock broker.
The women are, Mrs. Maude Augusta
Haines Andrews, 45, whom he mar
ried in Portland, Me-, June II, 1912
and by whom he has two boys-John
8 and Harry 6, and Mrs Esther
Marie Tatnall Andrews, %, who went
through a marriage ceremony with
him in Greenwich, Conn, January %,
1921.
Mr.. Andrews is head of the stock
brokerage firm of H. T. Andrews &
Company with principal offices at 20
| Broad street, N. Y, and branches in
New London, Conn, Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Chicago and Cleveland
The second Mrs. Andrews is report
ed to be a member of a reputable
Pittsburgh family.
The first Mrs. Andrews declared
tonight that the younger woman was
brought to the brokers' home here
on the day of the Greenwich cere-
mony and introduced to her by Mr..
Andrews as his wife" She told
friends that she continued to live in
the same apartment, occupying an
alcove bedroom, for the sake of her
boys" and because she felt confident
that her husband would soon tire of
the younger woman.
Il was married to Mr. Andrews in
Portland. Maine, nine years ago." Mrs
Maude Andrews said tonight, land we
lived happily together until January
of this year. We have two children.
In January my husband went to
Greenwich, CT, and was married to
this girl-Esther Marie Tatnall. 1
don't know much xcout her except
that he brought her home. one day and
calmly told me that he had married
her and l could either stay or leave,
jest as 1 pleased.
Since that day we have all three
lived here under the same roof. You
can't understand it? Well, the only
reason l have been able to tolerate it
is that l have two little children to
support and one of them has been an
invalid and a cripple all his life.
You can be sure that 1 would not
tut up with it except for the children.
Ii left he would spend all his money
en- that girl. when he should spend il
Tor the children, especially for the
poor little one whose only chance of
being brought back to normal depends
hoe
treatment"
Mr. Andrews could not be reached
tonight but his friends state that he
makes no attempt to conceal his me-
culiar domestic situation.
He has told his friends that wben
the time comes he will show that his
hrst marriage was invalid. pres Imab,v
on the ground that he was minor
when it took place.
Mrs. Maude Andrews was divoroed
from her first husband, Albert Ia
Plant OF st. Adams, VT, and her de-
cree became final one month before
she and Andrews We're married in
Portland. She was boarding then in
the home of Andrews parents in
Quincy, Mass.
Mr.. Andrews was a bookkeeper in
Boston bank at the time
Friends of Mr.. Andrews point out
that there is nothing illegal in his
action. No prosecution for bigamy
may be brought in the state of Con-
necticut, they said, unless it be ac-
companied by evidence of the actual
contamination of the marriage with
in the boundaries of the state. Mr..
Andrews and Mrs. Esthern Marie
Andrews. they added came here di-
rectly after the ceremony and has