Walter Edmund Irvine MOURILYAN (c1877-1924) - Walter was named in newspapers, because a fellow Richmond solicitor, Harold Northway Robbins, was granted a decree nisi because of the adultery between his wife, Elsie, and Walter.
Walter and Elsie married on 16th August 1924. Just over a month later, Walter was dead, having committed suicide. He died on 19th September 1924 at 14 Star and Garter Mansions, Putney. The relationship had been volatile and Walter’s name was again all over the newspapers, with paragraphs such as this:
Mr Walter Edmund Mourilyan, the solicitor, who figured in the sensational “Boy Prince” divorce suit two years ago, has been found dead from gas-poisoning in his flat.
And from The Hawera and Normanby Star of 25th September 1924:
DOMESTIC QUARREL - HUSBAND COMMITS SUICIDE - An inquest was held today concerning the death of Walter Mourilyan, a solicitor, of Richmond Surrey, who was found dead in his flat at Putney with his head inside the oven of a gas cooker. His widow admitted that she quarrelled with the deceased on the day before his death. The deceased had an extraordinary and ungovernable temper. His previous wife, interrupting shouted, "I won't let you run him down, you wicked woman!" The interjector was removed from the court in hysterics. Replying to the coroner the widow denied assaulting her husband with tongs. The coroner read a passage from the deceased's last letter declaring, "I have no doubt that the cruel and cunning wife of mine will put all the blame upon me. It's not true!" The coroner summing up said he thought the widow was not as terribly to blame as the letter hinted. A verdict was returned of suicide while of unsound mind..................
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