Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-27
LEGAL BANGLE IN HERMAN
 DIVORCE AND MARRIAGE

Chicago, Nov. 26.-John P. Tiernan, former law instructor at Notre Dame university and figure in the Tiernan- Poulin paternity suit, returned today to his home in South Bend to attempt to straighten out the legal tangle caused by his divorce last Thursday, his mar riage two days later and the vacating of his divorce decree last night on the plea of his first wife that he had deceived her.
 Meanwhile Mrs. Blanche Brimmer, whom Tiernan married at Crown Point, Indiana, yesterday, after a short mail courtship, was speeding back to her par ents in Iowa and her two young chil- dren by two former marriages. She said that she would seek to remove any ques- tion regarding the legality of her di- : vorce from her second husband. A. H. Brimmer a construction gang foreman. The second Mrs. Tiernan is 24 years old \ and is the daughter of the Rev. Charles H. Hawn, a Methodist of Han sell, Iowa. She said that she met Tier nan for the first time at the trial of his first wife's suit against Harry Poulin, South :end haberdasher whom Mrs. Tiernan charged was the father of her third child. Later she carried CT a cor respondence with the law instructor, 1 their marriage taking place on the oc- casion of their second meeting, two days after Herman had obtained a divorce. i Both Herman and his second wife ex- 1 pressed surprise at the action in South ] Bend last night of Judge Chester R. Montgomery.
 He vacated the divorce decree he had previously granted Tiernan on the ground of collusion and set the case for re-hearing on December II, after the first Mrs. Herman, angered by the re- | nf hey Shon oT- riage. charged that her husband had 1 beaten her to make her agree to a di- vorce and that he had pursued the same course to compel her to prosecute Poulfn in the paternity suit
 -Four years ago." she was quoted as saying, A"M MT. Tiernan asked me To sue him | for divorce, saying that it would | he brought suit. But our two babies were 1 little and 1 wanted to keep the home to- gether."
 i Mrs. Tiernan also was quoted as say ing that her husband had persuaded her 1 to let him obtain a divorce, saying that 1 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.
 l When told of his first wifes charges
 Professor Herman said that he had tolt | HIS Nll0 duOul pLdiS that she fully understood that it was impossible for them to ever live together again and that she had expressed her
 self to him as being reconciled to the separation.
 I Without reserve, the professor told O lis second marriage, of the bond of sym pathy established between himself anC his second wife by the letters that flew back and forth between Indiana ant Iowa.
 Some day I am coming after you, Herman said he wrote her.
 And when you do Tll be waiting,
 he said she replied.
 Then he told of the marriage and t the trip to Chicago where he bought hi
 bride a wedding ring and silver tur
 ban.
 Before they separated, he questione'
 her regarding the legality of her di
 vorce and told her that she would "hav
 to go forth and redeem yourself in m eyes"
 "I am sure am divorced, but I vii
 go back to Iowa and make certain" sh
 tearfully declared.