On Apr 22, 3:00=A0pm, gaze...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Andrew B. <bull...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >On 22 Apr, 10:05, John Hall <nospam_no...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> =A0rita.c...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >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
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> >> >who found himself in court for shooting at his wife =A0at a bridge
> >> >competition. (Non fatally, I assume) =A0The judge who was also an
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> >> >player, asked what cards they were holding at the time of the
offence,=
> >> >and what the bidding had been. =A0He was appalled at the wife's poor
> >> >bidding which he judged to have provoked her husband and he
dismissed
> >> >the case. =A0I know, probably urban myth!
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> >> No, it's quite true. It's known as the Bennett murder case.
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> >Except it was Mr Bennett who was shot, and Mrs Bennett wasn't actually
> >acquitted because his play/bidding was so poor, but because it was
> >deemed to be accidental.
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> I assumed (and continue to do so) that we are talking about different
> things. =A0Besides the genders being reversed, there's not much else in
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Thanks to all who replied. I have been entertained and informed.
What you say about the Bennett case and the anomalies in OF's telling
of the story would certainly fit with his tendency to "improve" a tale
to fit his own liking! I'm going to try "The Bridge Player's Beside
Book", as a family member has said that the title sounds familiar.
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