GRAND SLAM
BRIDGE CALL’S SEQUEL.
KANSAS CITY, March 13
Mi’s Myrtle Bennett, aged 35, shot her husband dead as the climax of a quarrel during a game of bridge. The jury acquitted her on the ground of iier humiliation and excitement, and -that the gun may have ben discharged accidentally while the husband and wife struggled for the. jveapon. The Bennetts were playing opposite Mr and Mrs Hoffman, old friends. Mr Bennett opened with a one spade bid. Mr Hoffman bid two diamonds. Mrs Bennett jumped her husband’s bid to four spades. He played the hand and went down by two tricks. Mrs Bejmett. criticised his play. ‘‘You’re a bum player,” she declared, adding that she had laid down a good dummy. Mr Bennett reached over the table and slapped her smartly across the mouth. She screamed and ran to a closet, where her husband’s overcoat contained -a revolver. They struggled with the garment, and Mr Bennett fell with a bullet in his heart after three shots had been fired. Mrs Bennett said she “didn’t mean to do it.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 March 1931, Page 10
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