Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-27
WIFE NO. 2 NOT LOCATED

Marshalltown. Ia, Nov. 26.-Mrs.
| Blanche Brimmer-Tiernan, who is re-
| ported in Chicago dispatches to have
| been deserted by Prof. John Herman,
OF South Bend, Ind. after a one-day
honeymoon, and who is supposed to be
in Marshalltown, could not be located
here Sunday night. So far as known
she has no relatives here and the man
ayers of local hotels say no one an
swering the description of Mrs.
Brimmer-Tiernan registered Sunday.
the Rev. and Mrs. Charles Fl. Hawn,
of Hansell, Iowa, have heard nothing
from their daughter since she left
home for Chicago several days ago to
marry Herman, according to reports
received here.
If Mrs. Brimmer-Tiernan plans to
come to Marshalltown it is believed it
is for the purpose of changing trains
for Hansell only. Hansell is a village
Is miles north of here in Franklin
county.
Return to South Bend
Chicago. Nov. 26.-John P. Herman,
former law instructor at Notre Dame
university and figure in the Tierney-
fPoulin paternity suit. returned Sunday
to his home in South Bend to attempt
to s%traighten 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 Brimmer,
whom Tiernan married at Crown Point.
Ind, Saturday after a short mail court
ship. was speeding back to her pa
rents in Iowa and her two young chill
dren by two former marriages. She
said that she would seek to remove
any question regarding the legality Of
her divorce fro mher second husband,
A. Il. Brimmer, a construction gang
foreman.
The second Mrs. Herman Is "a years
old and is the daughter of the Rev.
ter of Hansell, 10. She said that she
met Herman for the first time at the
trial of his first wife's suit against
Harry Poulin. South Bend haberdasher,
whom Mrs. Herman charged with the
fatherhood of her third child. Later
she carried on a correspondence with
the law instructor, their marriage TAX
ing place on the occasion Of their sec
ond meeting, just two days after Tier
nan had obtained a divorce.
Surprised at New Turn
Both Herman and his second wife ex-
pressed surprise at the action in South
Bend Saturday night of Judge Chester
r.. Montgomery, who vacated the di
vorce decree he had previously granted
Herman, on the ground of collusiOn.
and set the case for rehearing on De-
II. after the first Mrs. Herman,
angered by the reports of her former
husbands remarriage, charged tina her
nchon hoI hnu+o~ hnr 20 ,ooI-o Ia-i
agree to a divorce and that he had
pursued the same course to compel her
to prosecute Poulin in the paternity
suit.
-Four years ago she was quoted
as saying, mfr. Herman asked me to
sue him for divorce. saying that it
would endanger his position at Notre
Dame if he brought suit. But our
two babies were little and | wanted to
keep the home together"
Mrs. Herman also was quoted as
that her husband had persuad-
ed her to let him obtain a divohce. say
ing 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 wfie's charges
Professor Tiernan said that he had
tolu HE ihSt NiIe ABOUT ms fp-fnar-
plans, that she fully understood
that it was impossible for them ever
TO live together again and that she had
expressed herself TO him as being re-
c~onciled to the separation.
Wiley No. 2 in Tears
Without, reserve. the professor told
Of his second marriage, of the bond of
sympathy established between himself
and his second wife by the letters that
back and forth between Indiana
and Iowa.
Some day | IN coming after you"
Tiernana said he wrote her.
And when you do, I'll be waiting"
he said she replied.
Then he told Of the marriage and
the trip to Chicago, where he bought
his bride a wedding ring and a silver
Before they separated, he questioned
Ter regarding the Legality of her d.
and told her that she would
have to go forth and redeem herself
n nv eyes"