[1] The husbands played a round of golf at the Indian Hills Country Club that morning, and then went back to the links that afternoon with their wives joining them.
In the ultimate hand, John failed to make his four spades contract and Myrtle, frustrated by the failure, called him "a bum bridge player".
"[3] After an ongoing argument, John Bennett went to pack a suitcase as he told Myrtle to retrieve the handgun he typically carried on the road for protection.
Still sobbing, Myrtle reached into a drawer with linens and pulled out his .32 Colt semi automatic, and walked into the den.
The judge disallowed the prosecution, James R. Page, to submit John Bennett's nephew Byrd Rice, as he was not on the original list of witnesses.
"[5] The case caught the public imagination, and was subject to press attention by the New York Journal, not for the trial itself, but for the bridge game.
After World War II and throughout the 1950s, she worked as executive head of housekeeping at the elegant Carlyle Hotel in New York City, living alone there in an apartment.
[9] At the Carlyle, she developed friendships with the rich and famous, including the actors Mary Pickford and her husband Buddy Rogers, and also Henry Ford II.
The widow Bennett later traveled the world, working for a hotel chain, and played bridge until nearly the end of her life.