New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-14
Broker Said to
Have 2 Wives
In Same Home
H. t. Andrews, 80, Holds
His First Marriage to
Woman, Now Is. Was H.
legal and Takes Bride. 25
Elder Refuses to Depart
Has No Money, She Relates,
to Obtain Shelter Else.
where With Children

Herbert Thornton Andrews, of 20
Broad Street, stock broker. lives in
the Rensselaer, apartments at 234s
Hudson Boulevard, Jersey City, with
two wives. one of whom is staying on.
she says, because she hopes her hus
band will tire Of her rival.
The women are Mrs. Augusta Havnes
Andrews, forty-fve years old, whom
Andrews, who is thirty, married in
Portland Me-, June II, 1912, with her
two boys, John, eight, and Harley, six
and Mrs. Esther Marie Tatnall An
drews, twenty-five, who was married
to Andrews at Greenwich, Conn, Jan
uary 26, 1921. Also a resident in the
house is Mrs. Sarah McGuir Andrews
mother of Mr.. Andrews.
Mrs. Andrews was introduced to the
new wife when Andrews took her home
Immediately after the Connecticut
marriage. She is reported to have
been asked to take an alcove bedroom.
which has also been her sitting room
since the advent of the second Mrs.
Andrews.
rlrSt O1e waiting
The first wife is said to have told
intimate friends that she remains in
the house because of her two children
and because she knows that her hus-
band will tire ultimately of the younger
woman.
II don't know much about the woman
who supplanted me in my husbands
affections" said Mrs. Andrews last
night. HE told me he had married her
IN Connecticut and l am told there is
no law there under which he can be
prosecuted for bigamy. He told me
wnen ne brought the young woman
nome and introduced her to me that
could either stay or leave. lust as
chose.
Since then we have lived here nm
der the same roof I have two little
| chlidren to support. One OF them al
ways has been cripple and an invalid
You may be certain that ! would not
put up. with the condition except for
my children's sake. If left here nv
husband would spend all his money on
that girl. Part OF it at least ought to
De spent for the care of his children.
NO Money to Go Elsewhere
Il don't know what to do other than
what | am doing. / have no other
home than this and no money at ali
50 am just staying here and waiting
for something to happen. Ny husband
is not here tonight. He went out this
morning and has not returned.
The other woman went out some
time later, and she has not returned
either: l suppose they are together in
idea where"
Andrews is said to have told friends
who have inquired about his strange
domestic regime that his first mar
riage was illegal. He Is said to have
large income and to have been gen
erous in his treatment of his family
before he met the woman who he now
declares, is his legal wife
Mrs. Andrews was divorced from her
first husband, Albert La Plant. of St.
Adams, Vt, and her decree was made
final one month before she met An
drews. She was boarding at that time.
she says, in the home of Andrcws's s
parents in Quincy, Mass. Andrews was
a bookkeeper in Boston bank at that
time
New Wife Blonde
The young woman who, Andrews
says, Is his legal wife is slight, blond
and attractive. She was formerly a
rapher in Pittsburgh brokerage Of
fee with which Andrews did business.
Andrews replies to questions on the
subject of his strange domestic regime
that he is only legally married to one
woman but that he is very fond of
both and of the two children of whom
he is the father. He says that he in
tends to maintain both women and the
children in proper style.
Eugene A. Donohue, Of 149 Broad
way, has been retained by the first
Mrs. Andrews to care for her interests.
She explains that she does not know
| what the procedure will he