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Show v q c O O & OO TIERNANS FAIL TO GET BLOOD TEST POULIN CASE j DECISION DUE ON SATURDAY I Hearing Comes to Ciose After Aft-er Eloquent Arguments Tuesday APPEAL IS LIKELY Preponderance of Evidence Not "Beyond Reasonable , Doubt" to Rule CHICAGO. Sept 2T Or Albert Abraitna, California specialist has refused re-fused to make a private blood test 10 determine whether John Tiernan. I Notre Dame law professor. Is the fath- j or of ids wife's baby boy, who Mrs. Tiernan Bays is the child of Harry I'oulin. haberdasher of South Bend, j Ind Ir Abrams refusal to mak the test be .tine known todav. following , n conference with the Tiernan?, who came to Qhicaaq Tuosday night at the; close of the hearing on the paternity; case at south Ceqd, to consult the. Calirm'.a sneclaMst. They brought; the babv with then-.. Dr Abrams In declining to take a part privately in the iase said he v.. 1.1 I make a test only In connection with rodrt procedurr and with both Tiernan and I'oulln submitting WOW VP TO JUDGE SOUTH RF'.N'D. Ind., SepL 27. The question of the paternity of Billy." the ten months" c.j son of Mrs. A 1-gusta 1-gusta Tiernan and John P. Tiernan. Notre Dame law professor rests in 1 t'ie hands of Judge Chester L Du-eomb, Du-eomb, Judge of. the South Bend city, court. At 9 o'clock nest Saturday motnin-,-a curiously revised vorslon of Solomon's Solo-mon's famous Judgment Is expected to be enacted when Judge Ducomb will pas- final Judgment as to whether the Infant is the son of Harry Poulin. Ileal Il-eal clothing salesman, as -Mrs. TleiS nan claims, or w hether. it is a legl- tlmate offspring. The hearlnc which began a week ago Monday came to a close late ; I Tuesday afternoon with the rompl --I --I tion of the attorneys' closing arguments argu-ments summing up to an hour 'or, .ai h side several additional witness. -s were called to the stand, two for the ' d. f.-nse and three for the state, one I of the three prosecution witnesses be-' be-' Ins Mrs Tiernan herse'f Prosecutor n.'.vd " .Telllson ha' lne; decided to rcall her hack In nn attempt to refute the absolute denial of her charges made by the defendant and other de-I de-I fense witnesses. OfHER WITKI SSI - One of the defense witnesses Mrs -.r-.h Warden testified concerning poulln'S attendance at hu rch on the DJrbta when he Is charged with bav-ng bav-ng visited Mrs. Tiernan The 0 ,1 Witnesses Vee Woodruff, a lumberman lumber-man testified concerning one of Die points presented as an alibi for Poul-. '"The new witnesses for the state were I .. ,,, ' lor;.n, a Notre Lame stu- , .-.n w ho refuted one portion of Poul-i Poul-i testimony and Mrs Louis.- Pow-tk Pow-tk who said she had seen Mrs. Poul-, r but no her husband at church on evening of on- alleged meeting I with Mrs Tiernan. , ln the Closing arguments of the at or , Jeyi inasmuch as the case, how-II how-II i a civil Sttlon, brought in tho '"' fr th state on the relation of SS "'';"1 """- ..t.u. doubt " . i-t. '" tv of her perjuring hcr- lmprobabllltv or ner 1 powerful f!i,iB,?5i r.-HKo or money ' ,'nJ her to Invent such B tale. ' prompting , lhat lf there The prosecutor oecu .,.n PouUn hn' r:1T , nanhat m.Kin have led und Mrs ' Poulln declar- SSnM SKftW Si enonarelation, ,f ,rl;heler"nsca,aTtorney3 attack,,, the dec?araffone- M Itl , ind hcr husband hjji a al tne ln u intimate marital m rlSVi$3b$ They atAs. ::;,i':;-'-;:'1;;;;;rr1::, ,; (Continued PkW Two') POULIN CASE DECISION DUE ON SATURDAY (Continued from Page One.) ed it William John, for his favorite brother and himself. They reasoned that Mrs. Tlernan had somo motive for seeking revenge against Poulln and had Influenced her husband to support her in her charge They maintained, moreover, that the I points at issue against Poulln were not merely whether Poulln had ever had intimate relations with Mrs. Tlernan, Tler-nan, but whethor ho was tho father of the child, and declared that even though such had been tho rase, tho prosecution had not established that tho baby might not be Professor Tier-nan's Tier-nan's off-spring. CHILD HAS FATHER. "I don't know what purposo or intent in-tent Mr. and Mrs. Tlernan had when they brought this case into court," declared de-clared Attorney Schwartz "I know that the purpose of tho statute was to provide a fatherless child with a name and with support. "This law has been perverted to servo the purpose of a man and hi wife, not to provide a father for a child that little Billy Tlernan already alrea-dy has. Not to provide a name he had that. They have come into this court to prove that it Is Illegitimate, to label It so that It can be scorned by the world for tho rest of its life. "This whole action Is to satisfy Mrs. Tleman'a dealre for revenge on Poulln Poul-ln for ignoring her to use her own words." Professor aDd Mrs. Tlernan were to leave tonight for Chicago to consult with Dr. Albert Abranis, San Francisco Fran-cisco blood specialist, concerning a blood test to establish definitely the paternity of tho ten-months-old child. The blood test. If decided upon, will probably bo Introduced as evidence when the case goes to a higher court us an appeal Is considered probable i regardless of the Judge's verdict. |