ISLAM

APPENDIX 217
Mr. Maxwell, added counsel, was 65 when he died,
Mrs. Mary Wilmer, plaintiffs mother, was born in 1857
and was 74 years of age when she died. She was 69
when she went through a ceremony of marriage with
Maxwell. Mrs. Wilmer's first husband was a farmer,
and they had three children, plaintiff being born in
1882. She lived with her parents in Manchester.
Mrs. Wilmer left her husband to live with Maxwell.
Plaintiff v/as put into a boarding school and her
father went to China. When plaintiff was 21, she
\yas manageress of a tobacconist's shop in Dumfries
and married a journalist named John Patrick
Macintosh. Afterwards she and her husband
(Macintosh) lived together in London and Derby.
On Oct. 6, 1921, Maxwell and plaintiff went through
a form of marriage at St. Pancras Church, London.
Plaintiff was then described as a widow and Maxwell
as a bachelor.
Proceeding, Mr. Cassels and that it was testator's
desire that his marriage with the daughter should be
kept secret. And mother, daughter and Mr. Maxwell
all continued to live in the same house at Park-road,
Richmond, Surrey.
Mr. Maxwell began to make wills in 1925. He
deliberately burnt the first one himself. In May, 1926
he gave instructions for a will which was executed
on May 1 3. Af terwards he and the mother went away
on a holiday together. While they were away the
daughter received intimation that her mother
and Mr. Maxwell had been married at the register