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rita.clad@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
>In the 70s my partner's ex-father-in-law had a book of bridge stories/
>anecdotes which he had hoped to be given when XFIL went to join the
>great bridge game in the sky. Sadly it had disappeared.
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>One story from the 30s, at the height of bridge mania, was about a man
>who found himself in court for shooting at his wife at a bridge
>competition. (Non fatally, I assume) The judge who was also an avid
>player, asked what cards they were holding at the time of the offence,
>and what the bidding had been. He was appalled at the wife's poor
>bidding which he judged to have provoked her husband and he dismissed
>the case. I know, probably urban myth!
No, it's quite true. It's known as the Bennett murder case. If you stick
"bridge Bennett murder" (without the quotes) into Google, you will turn
up some descriptions of the affair.
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>I would like to get hold of a copy of the book for my old fella, for
>an "o,no!" birthday, if only to be spared the re-telling of the story
>again and again and again. I might not get such an understanding
>judge.
Unfortunately you haven't provided enough information for me to hazard a
guess at which book it was.
--
John Hall
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts;
but if he will be content to begin with doubts,
he shall end in certainties." Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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