The Topeka state journal., 1922-11-27
Wife JILTS HIM!
Reconciliation of the Tiernans
Blows Up With a Bang.
6Sfsow,s& ITS5o DoL;rE NJ GH~swf- -
'sGan't Hide Behind My Skirts" "
Says Mrs. Tiernan.
COURT ACTION is DELAYED
Thinks He Came Back to Evade
a Charge of Bigamy.
Mrs. Brimmer Looks Up Her
Own Matrimonial Status.

South Bend, Ind, Nov. 27.-The
reconciliation of Prof. John P. Tier
nan and his wife blew up with a bang
today when Mrs. Augusta Tiernan be-
gan to suspect that the professor had
returned from affinityland where he
married another only TO avoid the
pressure of a charge of bigamy-
Mrs. Tiernan telephoned Attorney
George Sands to drop proceedings to
have the professors cross bill against
her suit for divorce dropped
Sands was to have gone before Judge
c. r. Montgomery and move that the
bill be dismissed. And Prosecutor
Floyd o. Jellison was to have dismiss
ed the appeal from the court decision
that declared Harry Poulin innocent of
Mrs. Tiernan's charge that he was
the father of Baby Billy, a third
child.
Whether John and his "Gussie' will
finally be reconciled. depends, Mrs.
marriage to Mrs Blanche Brimmer,
of Iowa, was contaminated
Honeymoon Was Public.
MY marriage with Mrs. Brimmer
was never consummated," Herman
shouted 1--WE had the most public
honeymoon you ever saw"
Wen see," was "Gussie's" COM
And so there may be another trial
90 settle that point
made plain Mrs Brimmer again by
the sudden revocation of her affinity s
decree OF divorce, has gone, uO one
knows
Tne professor told her to go home
to Iowa and she told him she'd go. but
il was regarded probable here that
she is in Chicago still hoping for an
other explosion in South Bend that
will bounce Tiernan into her arms
again
over the family washing machine.
however. even after his wife charged
B him with trying to "hide behind her
sic" was after all the only love TOR
him.
Marshalltown. Ia. Nov. ez.-Mrs.
Blanche Hawn Rash today sought
quire as to the status of her marriage
with Rash. She told the county at
torney she expected Mr.. Tiernan
would reach the city some time this
Chicago, Nov. 27.-Mrs. Blanche
Eaxn Rash Brimmer. second wife of
. John p Tiernan. former professor of
law at Notre Dame university. possesses
- marital status at least as tangled as
j. that of her husband for L day. accord
ing to revelations she made here be
Gore returning to Marshaitown. Iowa.
where she planned to set about today
learning whether she was er.titied le-
GaiIy % accept Mr.. Tiernau in their
Crown Point, Ind, ceremony Saturday
Mrs. Brsnrnr was left by Professor
Tjernan with the injunction to Go
and redeem yourself in my eyes" re-
plying fearful. rOh. I VIII dear
john
First Married at 16.
y These expressions came after Prof.
Tiernan and Mrs. Brimme~ were in
formed their marriage had been rem
dered illegal by annulment of Prof.
Tiernan's divorce from Mrs Augusta
Tiernan at South Bend, Ind. and that
he
was beclOuded. When she was 16
years old eight years ago. she eloped
with Floyd L. Rash, Marshalltown
baker from the home of her parents,
/ the Rev. and Mrs Charles H. Hawn,
then of Aredale- Iowa, and now of
Hansell, Iowa. she said. Four days
after receiving a notice that Rash had
sued for divorce she said. she mar
ried Arthur II. Brimme-, at Oskaloosa.
Iowa only to learn still later that
Rash had not obtained a final decree
when she ha- married Brimmer.
Nothing was done about the matter
she said. but she and Brimmer came
TO Chicago where she becam a check
here she learned that Brimmer then
was being sued for divorce by an
earlier wife. whereupon she returned
home. but reJoiEed Brimmer later at
: there. she said, and his brother in
formed her lie was dead.
"Is that all the proof of freedom
you had when you married me?" Pro-
fessor Tiernan was said to have ex-
claimed.
Another Romance Mentioned.
Replying to a question regarding
still another romance. Mrs. Brimmer
said she had not married the man
named. but that she met him in Mason
City. Iowa, gone to Clear Lake. Iowa,
where his mother told her he was
married and the father of a child. The
mans mother paid her way back
home. Mrs Brimmer said.
Shortly thereafter she became in
terested in the Tiernan-Poulin pa
Eternity case. and opened the penciled
with Professor Tier
nan. which led to their meeting here
last Thursday night, their first sight
Of each other, and their two attempts
to be married in Illinois before their
successful effort at Crown Point, Ind,
Saturday.
Mrs Brimmer's letters. as published
by the Chicago Herald and Examiner.
began by referring to Professor Tier
nan as Dear Friend. and gradually
increased in warmth of tone until Pro-
fessor Tiernan is said finally to have
replied. Some day 1 am coming after
you to which Mrs. Brimmer was
quoted as having responded. And
when YOU do. you'll find me waiting"
Mrs. Brimmer is the mother of two
children. Nerdene Rash. 6. and Mary
Catherine Rash. 3.
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