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office in the Isle of Thanet This came as a great
shock to the daughter, who had moved, by that time
to Sheen Park. In July, 1926, testator made a will
leaving every thing to the daughter.
Sometime in that month the daughter went round
to Park-road, Richmond, and asked that her side of
the case should be considered. There was a row and
the daughter claimed to be Maxwell's wife. That
was the first the mother knew of the daughter's
marriage.
Maxwell admitted the marriage and went out of
the room. He was followed upstairs. The mother
assaulted him and the daughter rescued him. He
went downstairs again and the mother was described
as "belabouring him on the head with a heavy hook."
The daughter took Maxwell to her home in Sheen
Park and for two days he was very much dazed. On
August 9, Maxwell went to a nursing home. He
returned to live with the daughter at Sheen Park for
a week. Then he went out one day and disappeared.
The daughter never saw him again, nor did she hear
of him until 1931, when she was told that he was dead.
By the will of Sept 1 1926, Maxwell left everything
to the mother.
Mary Newton Wilmer, the mother, continued
counsel, secured Maxwell's admission as a pauper and
a person of ^insound mind into a mental hospital near
Blackpool, describing him as "John Maxwell, single"
and herself as "friend."
Mrs. Maxwell, the plaintiff, was then called. She