Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-28
Professor to Go to New York
State With Former Family,
Wife of a Day Goes to Her
Home

SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. 81
Dismissal of court actions now pend
ing were sought today by John +.
Herman, former law professor of the
University of Notre Dame, following
his return to his wife, Mrs. Augusta
Herman, at their home here yester-
day, With the suits dismissed, it
was said the couple with three chill
dren, including the infant son whose
paternity had been charged to Har-
nv Poulin, South Bend haberdasher,
bv Mrs. Herman, would hide away m
New York state and begin life anew.
Professor and Mrs. Herman left
their home early today, and were
said to be closeted with attorneys IN
an effort to obtain the dismissal of
the two suits pending the appeal
from the decision in the city court
in the paternity case and the suit
for divorce which was re-opened by
the revoking of the decree granted
Mr.. Herman last week.
While heretofore both Mr.. and MS.
Herman seemingly had courted pup
licity in carrying on their cases in
court. today they were silent and it
was said a high court official had
WdI1l6u IIlSlI " lil|bANN ~
statements for publication.
Mrs. Blanche Bremmer, to Whom
Professor Herman was married Sat
urdav in Crown Point, Ind, has re-
turned to the home of her parents III
Iowa from Chicago. according to a
statement by M. Tiernan last night.
Mr.. Tiernan, in a statement sald
his Crown Point, Ind, marriage Sat
Of ~
toXication.' He said he and Mrs.
Herman would drop all action look
ing to reopening the paternity case
against Harry Poulin.
Prof. Herman came to South Bend
Sunday. He went Immediately TO
the Herman home and after a con-
ference with his first wife issued a
formal statement that the family
had been reunited and that the pa
ternity charge against Poulin would
be dropped.
Intellectually Intoxicated
MY mental state is entirely re
sponsible for the Crown Point mar
rage" said Prof. Tiernan. 1T is
impossible to conceive of that state
of mind I was. in. The long trial,
the divorce, and all sent me off on a
mental tangent, an intellectual IN
toxication. and the Crown Point ar
| fair was the result"
! At the Tiernan household, both
/ Prof. Herman and Mrs. Augusta Tier
nan declared that this reconciliation
was the last chapter in the domes-
| tic relations between them.
Mrs. Tiernan said the score had
been evened between her and the
professor, her self-confessed esca-
pade with Harry Poulin, and Tier
mans second marriage to the Iowa
widow, who, Herman said, was
wealthy, putting them both on the
same moral plane.
IT'S a victory for us all, but a
greater victory for Baby Billy Tier
nan said.
Mrs. Augusta Herman did not re-
| ceive the professor with open arms
| when he came home. Her attitude,
| she said if her husband entertained
| any love for Mrs. Blanche Brimmer-
| Herman, OF Hansell, Iowa, he could
go to her. Far be it from me to
stop them if they love each other,
| she declared.
blanche Understood" He Says
Prof Herman said he and Mrs.
Brlmmer had come TO an aIIlldpIe
understanding regarding the affair.
Before l left Chicago, Blanche un-
derstood that all was over between
u.s." he said.
Herman laughingly told how he
had provided Mrs. Herman NO. 2
with an entire change of costume
at one of Chica COS leading stores in
order to throw Chicago newspaper
men off the scent. He had previous
ly read news accounts of her orange
trimmed hat, and the new wardrobe
with which he provided her, he
said, was complete even to shoes
and stockings.
Their acquaintance was formed,
he said. through correspondence
during the trial in South Bend. AS
many as three letters daily were
written to him by the then Mrs.