The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-11-27
Herman and
New Mate
separate
= rofessor Returns to
Bend and Wife He
arried Saturday Goes
to Iowa Home.

Chicago. Nov 2G.e-uBy A. P.l-John
+. Tiernan, former law instructor nj
Notro Dame university and figure IN
the Tiernan. Poulin paternity suit, re.
turned TO his home In South Bend 10
attempt 10 stralghten out the legal
tangle caused by his divorce last
| Thursday. his remarriage two days
later and the vacating OF his divorce
decree Saturday night on the plea Of
his first wife that he had deceived
her.
Meanwhile. Mrs. Blanche Brlmmer,
whom Tiernan married at Crown
Point, Ind, Saturday, after short
mail courtshlp, was speeding back to
her parents In Iowa and her two
young children by two former mar
rlages. She said that she would seek
10 remove any question regarding the
legality OF her divorce from her sec.
ond husband, A. III. Brlmmer, a con.
structlon gang foreman.
Daughter Of Minister.
The second Mrs. Tlernan is = years
old and is the daughter of Rev.
Charles H. IIawn, a Methodist minis
ter OF Eansell. La.
She said that she met Tlernan for
the first time at the trial Of his first
wifes suit against Harry Poulin,
South Bend baberdasher. whom Mrs.
Tiernan charged was the father Of
her third child. Later, she carried on
correspondence with the law in.
structor, their marriage taking PLACE
on the occasion Of their second meet
ing, just two days after Tiernan had
obtained a divorce.
Both Tiernan and his second wife
expressed surprise at the action in
South Bend Saturday night Of Judge
Chester X. Montgomery who vacated
the divorce decree he had previously
granted Tiernan on the ground OF col.
lusion and set the case for rehearing
on December II, after the first Mrs.
Tiernan, angered by the reports Of
her former husbands remarriage,
charged that her husband had beaten
her TO make her agree to divorce
and that he had pursued the same
course to compel her TO prosecute
Poulin in the paternity suit.
Asked to Get Divorce.
-Four years ago." she was quoted
as saying, "Mr. Tiepnan asked me
to sue him for divorce, saying that 1t
would endanger his position at Notre
Dame II he brought suit. But our
two babies were little and / wanted
to keep the home together"
Mrs. Tiernan also was quoted as
saying that her husband had per
suaded her to let him obtain di.
vorce, saying that he would court
her all over again and that they would
start life anew together In some small
town where nobody had ever heard
OF them.
When told of his first wife's charges,
Prof Tiernan said that he had told |
his first wife about his remarrlage |
plans, that she fully understood that |
1t was impossible for them ever to live |
together again and that she had ex-
pressed herself as being reconciled to |
the separation.
Tells Of Second Marriage.
Without reserve. the professor told |
" his second marriage of the bond Of |
sympathy established between himself |
and his second wife by the letters that |
'lew back and forth between Indiana
and Iowa.
Some day l am coming after YOU
Tiernan said he wrote her. "And
when you do, I'll be waiting" he said
she replied. Then he told Of the mar
rlage and the trip to Chicago, where
no bought his bride a wedding ring
Before they separated. ne questioned
Ter regarding the legality OF her di-
'orce and told her that she would
have to go forth and redeem herself /
n my eyes"
Il am sure am divorced, but will
go back to Iowa and make certain"
;he tparfullv daclared