Kansas City, Tuesday.
A quarrel between a married couple over a game of contract bridge ended in the woman shooting her husband dead here last night.
"You're a bum bridge player," young Mrs J. G. Bennett said to her husband after a game of bridge with two neighbours, which ended in her being ten-pence down.
Retaliatory words were followed by rising anger, and finally Bennett struck his wife. Sobbing, she rushed to her bedroom, got a revolver, and shot her husband twice, killing him.
She was afterwards arrested on a charge of murder in the first degree. The couple with whom the Bennetts were playing bridge stated that the hand on which Bennett went for game, after his wife had raised his bid of "one spade" to "four spades," with an intervening bid of "two diamonds," was "wonderful."
Bennett is said to have held six trumps, including two honours, while dummy's hand, on which his wife raised his bid, contained the other three honours.
The Irish Times, October 2nd, 1929.