The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-11-27
.TIERNAN,S "a
HOUR WIFE HAD
MANY ROMANCE>
She Admits Several Of Them and Two
Marriages Prior to Re-
cent Affair.

Chicago, Nov. 27. Mrs. Blanche
Hawn Rash Brimmer, second wife Of
John r. Tiernan, former professor OF
law at Notre Dame university, pos
sesses q marital status at least az tan
gled as that Of her husband for a day,
according to revelationssshe made Eere
before returning to Marshalltown, la.
She planned to set about to-day learn
ing whether she was. entitled to le-
agally accept Mr.. Tiernan in their
Grown Point, Ind, ceremony Satur-
day.
Mrs. Brimmer was left by Professor
Tiernan with the injunction to go anu
redeem yourself in my eyes replying
to fearful, ''Oh, viii dear John.
Those expressions came after Professor
Tiernan and Mrs. Brimmer were m
| formed their marriage had been rem
dered Illegal by annulment Of Profes'
sor Tiernan's divorce from Mrs. Angus
| Ia Tiernan at South Bend, and her own
prior marital status possibly was ba-
clouded
When she was 10 years old, eight
years ago, she eloped with Floyd Z.
! Rash, Marshalltown baker, from the
home Of her parents, the Rev. and Mrs.
| Charles H. Hawn, then of Aredale, Ia,
and now Of Hansell, Ia, she said. Four
DAYS after receiving notice that Rash
had sued for divorce, she said, she
married Arthur II. Brimmer at Os-
kaloosa, Ia, only to learn still later
THAT Rash had not obtained final
decree when she married Brimmer.
Nothing was done about the mat
ter, she said, but she and fBrimmer
came to Chicago where she BECAME
check girl in Chinese restaurant.
! While here she learned Brimmer then
was being sued for divorce by an eail-
| Ter wife, whereupon she returned home
but reioined Brimmer later at Kansas
City, Mo. He disappeared there she
said. and his brother informed her
Brimmer was dead.
as that all the proof of freedom yon
had when you married met" Professor
| Tiernan is said to have exclaimed.
| Replying 10 question regarding an
other romance, Mrs. Brimmer said she
had not married the man named, but
that she met him in Mason City Ia, had
gone To Clear Lake, Ia. and from there
| to his home in Uniontown, Pa, where
his mother told her he was married
and the father of a child. Tne mans
mother paid her way back home, Mrs.
Brimmer said
shortly thereafter she became inter-
| ested in the Tiernan. Poulin paternity
case and began the pencilled CORE
spondence with Professor Tiernan,
which led to their meeting here last
Thursday night, their first sight Of
each other with two attempts 70 be
married in Illinois before their sue
cessful effort at Crown Point, Ind.
Mrs. Brimmer's letters, as published
by the Chicago Herald and Examiner
began by referring to Professor Tier-
nan as Dear friend aud gradually in
crea sed in warmth of tone until Pro
fessor Tiernan is said finally to have
replied;
| 'sSome day I am coming after you
TO which Mrs. Brimmer was quoted as
having responded: "And when you dc
You'll find me waiting"
Regarding money Mrs. Brimmer was
quoted as saying, II have plenty. Mon
ey has no attraction whatever
In another letter this passage was
said to have occurred "But always
you are and will be my sakawawin, =
reference to books on Indian lore failed
| to reveal the meaning of "sakawawin.'
i Mrs Brimmer is the mother of two
children, Verdene Rash, 8, and Mary
Catherine Rash, 8.