South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-15
ORDERS RAIL AGREEMENTS ADVOCATED
Says Bigamy is
BiganlyE EUen IN
This LOOe Nest
Maeterlincks Eternal Tri-
angle" Receives Cruel Jolt
in Jersey City.
By International News 80:

BY international News Service
JERSEY CITY. y. J., April IA
All was not 80 quiet and Ieaceful
Thursday az the Andrews triangle
love nest in Jersey city as Il has
been for the last three months A
storm was shaking its foundations.
but compared TO the tornado that it
heralds, it was but a warning
breeze.
For wife No. had rebeHed a.
last The woman scorned" means
10 have her day.
They clashed Thursday in a pre-
liminary skirmish. did wife No. I
and wife No. ., both Of whom bear
the name Of II. T. Andrews, a New
York stock broker. and both Of
whom have been since January liv-
ing with him I'm his six-room fat on
the Hudson boulevard
They Clash Verbally.
you wrote me yourself to come
here" said beautiful 25-year-old
No. .. Mrs. Esther Marie Tatnall
Andrews, formerly of Pittsburg
married to Herbert T. Andrews last
January at Greenwich. Conn.
"Yes, but I didn't ask you 20
come and live with my husband as
his wife" was the retort OF No. 1.
She is Mrs. Maud Augusta Haynes
Andrews. ~, member OF a we'll
known New England family. She
married the broker, who is y years
her junior. on June Il, 1912, in
Portland, Me. She has borne him
two children, John, s. and Harley.
s. The latter is crippled.
Besides the two wives and the
two children. there lives also in the
six-room fiat the brokers mother
Mrs. Sarah Mcclure Andrews. for
merly of St. Johns y. 3.
One Of the rooms is an alcove
bedroom It is there that no. 1"
has spent most Of her time since
Andrews walked in one night with
No. ., pretty and petit, who used to
be a stenographer and telephone
operator In that little room, nurs-
ing her crippled boy. she has silent
ly suffered for three months. ba.-
thing with heroic valor against the
'green-eyed monster.
EcIfpses Them All.
But Wednesday night, while An
drews. the smiling 3O-year-old
broker who maintains sumptuous
Offices at 20 Broad street with
branches in several big cities. was
spending a gay evening with the
younger wife, somewhere ir New
York" all the painfully suppressed
wrath rose tumultousIy to the sur
face. She had to tell somebody
anybody. She did. And like wild
fire. the news was flashed TO New
York and newspaper row. The
Stillman scandal, the Stokes di-
vorce. the Elwell murder-all were
forgotten. Here was truth indeed
stranger than fiction: A man living
in the same home with two wives
and laughing at the very idea OF be-
ing accused of bigamy.
For that is the strangest of all
the strange angles in this twentieth
century drama: Herbert Thornton
Andrews is the only cool person II
the nest that is no longer a love
did Wednesday night at the sugges-
ton that the arm of the law might
clutch him. He hints mysteriOusly
at a "technicality." That he mar
ried both women is beyond q
shadow OF doubt. Both marriage
licenses We're printed in fac similo
Thursday. There is no record Of o
divorce. When he and his No. =
came back TO the fat "Wednesday
night they were met by No.
strangely uncanniIy changed. Hith-
erto she had fought all her battles
silently. Now she spoke up. The
staggering weight OF her sorrow
and scorn once given vent through
words. she felt stronger more self
reliant. and Thursday she spoke
even more plainly and more de-
family.
Later in the day Eugene A
Donaghue. attorney for the older
Mrs. Andrews. announced that the
latter had decided 10 take no action
against her husband.
He added that Andrews had
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