"Mrs. Hawkins had been very beautiful in her younger days."
Mrs. Hawkins had been very beautiful in her younger days, but time and children had robbed her of her rosy cheeks; and realising that widow's weeds did not become her, she withdrew shortly after the funeral to the seclusion of a country life, where she spent her time ministering to the sick, and looking after her late daughter Pearl's two small children. The names of her children in chronological order were as follows:—
| 1. | P | earl. Died 1912 |
| 2. | E | dward. |
| 3. | R | ebecca. |
| 4. | S | elina. |
| 5. | E | mma. |
| 6. | V | era. |
| 7. | E | velyn. |
| 8. | R | ichard. |
| 9. | A | melia. |
| 10. | N | athaniel. |
| 11. | C | hlotilde. |
| 12. | E | rmyntrude. |
How should the property of the late Septimus Hawkins be distributed, and how much did the respective beneficiaries receive?
PROBLEM No. 6.
Very few men can state with any degree of accuracy how long they will live, but Nathaniel Hibbert told his Wife he would die at 8 o'clock in the morning of Tuesday, the 22nd April, 1913, and he did die at that very time on that very day. He was standing on some scaffolding when a platform gave way under his very feet, and he broke his spinal cord. In other words he was hanged. His Solicitor urged him to make a Will and the prison Chaplain added his earnest entreaties, but Mr. Hibbert turned a deaf ear to all such suggestions. Even the sight of his Wife and only child did not affect his determination, and he died intestate.