| Show SUNDAY MORNINCf APRIL 10 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 10E2 even ira I s v - V King Has Lost His Throne Men Their Lives and Now Wives Are Getting Rid of Their Husbands 4 ? 0X v j ft” ) V Attralie VrI in a of ft4 PaiiiewlIo Ohio hoar Ixive for Bridge led to the Mining of Her IliiHlmnd and Her Incarceration in the State I! lorniutorr A When ill h'r They son who dealt him a poor hand laughed thinking he was joking he dealt himself a hand However and without a single face-car- d He had promptly committed suicide kept his strange and terrible oath! Mrs Hazel Moore wife of George Moore of Chicago was another who fell afoul of the pasteboard craze She failed to take her husband out of a one double and according to testimony at the tiMit 4o beat her up She won a divorce later with llie custody of their children and $10000 Mrs Jean Stewart Lindquist won a divorce m Chicago after a quarrel over her blocking herself In dummy for which Mrs The hammer-murde- r Velma West was sent to the Ohio at Marysville State Reformatory grew out of the quarrel that followed a bridge game She was convicted of West killing her husband Thomas E Parnes-ville in a nt of rage In their home at £A f fMPjt tO T4pv t aAwWw4 M'1 v Ohio' ‘ Grouped About Mr Myrtle Bennett Kana City Mo Matron Whom a Jury Acquitted Murder” Are the lour Hand Held in the fatal Game of the I union “Bridge-lablThose Below Are the One on W hieh She 1 he (ard Above Her Were the Main Man's Bid the Tragic four Spade e Hv' IV AA-- f aw5X John C told of Judge Chicago Segcler Joseph Sabath in the city’s divorce court “My wife and I were bridge partners and she trumped my ace of hearts” Sege-le- r added that she had slapped his face after he protested her playing Judge Sabath granted the lady the divorce after she testified that her husband had thrown her downstairs soon after the About the same bridge game time a husband's refusal to make a fourth at bridge was being ad-- ‘ vanced as one of the "alid read sons for divorce in a suit at Little Rock Arkansas by Mrs Anthony W Fly A frund of the couple said in a deposition that Mr Fly “would refuse to make a fourth at bridge him although he if his wife was very fond of it and if any one else asked him to make a fourth he tract bridge squabbles - AK left At Souriya and Below of Afghani-ta- n Her Boyal Spouse ex King Anuiniillah Both of W hoin W ere Dethroned and f xiled Because of Hi ’J Maetv' ’4ykwi - Seven Reasons Why Kins Vnianullah of Afghanistan lost liis throne 2 Queen Souriva is living in exile 3 John G Bennett of Kansas City Mo lost his life 1 Mrs John G Bennett "as thargeil with ltFs nniriler Harry Meaehani of W ilkeshoro IS C committed suicide 6 Sirs Ilael Moore of obtained a divorce 7 Mrs Velma Meat of Painesville killed her husband in a fit of rage 1 Paion for Bridge 4i 4 ?jY a e I1 C®1 —the most popular and BRIDGE card game ever invented — has proved the nemesis of seven unfortunate people To them and to others the familiar encs of “Four Spades!” and “Double!” have left purple echoes of killings imcide and divorce Most astonishing of all the devotion of one regal enthusiast of the game cost him and his queen their thrones For a time King Amanullnh and beautiful Queen Souriya of Afghanistan were as popular as rulers ever become in their troubled and rebellious country The king ruled with an iron hand It was true that every once in a while an uprising would dare here and there but doughty Amanullah alit with prompt ways extinguished y sternness Then one day a rumor trickled from the royal palace that Ilia Highness had taken to playing a strange Occident d ciud game The story rdated that his niaji sty indulged in the pastime from morning until night One unhappy gentleman it was said h is lost his head because his skill at aution bridge exceeded that of he subjects who listened Amiinullah’s to this tale shrugged their shoulders Alter all a kinjj was entitled to some in noi ent diversion and any sublet fool enough to outwit bis rnornmh In a i ontest of skill and chance hpd little use tor a head ater it was dmcoveicd that figures of women were actually painted on the cards used by the Afghanistan ruler This was a clear violation of the Mohammedan faith The entire country rose to anus against Amanullah They stormed tho rojal palai e at once interrupted the king ju t a3 he was scoring a grand slam and exiled him and Queen Sounya People who have since met the ex king across a bridge table declare that he finesses with great skill They add however that he confided he would be much happier if he had never developed his trick- r A taking talent If asked several young American couples would probably admit the same thing Two pairs of tlmm wire recently divorced as a result of Con e into the kitchen to pri pare some refreshments When she returned she found that her husband had been set two tricks lie accused her of overbidding and she retorted that “he was a bum bridge player ” For that slur witnesses the lady rerepoited ceived a slap in the face She obtained a revolver police charged at the time and fired four Fhota at Bennett killing him The trial that followed was known throughout the world as “The Bridge-Tabl- e of tragedy growing out of the bridge craze swept America There were murders di- and be- cause somebody had dealt a poor Murder Trial” S Senator James A Reed of Missouri was Mrs Bennett’s counsel Ex-- r xr rv ' When he called Mrs Hoffman to the witness stand she said “Myrtle (Mrs Bennett) put downagood hand a perfectly lovely hnnd" iv? r& V i r ' X 1 j rj'r jr-4 ) ¥ i 4 1 I Bennett ilia Perfiinio ntim of Sidesman the Sensational Bridge-TablKilling would do so” Some time ago a wave vorce suicides G kuiia I ity insti--tute- - jjv John TAlf of Pmadcna California Playing tonlrarl in a ay to Keep Cool During Hoi ming Pool Poibly the Only Diruion of live Hand Soi inly Tolk King FmUurM lao 1131 Swim‘ ” The defendant was acThe brilliant quitted master of forensics Jim Reed proved to the satisfaction of the Jury that Mrs Bmnott had discharged the first two Bhota accidentally and that tho others hod discharged themselves also accidentally when her alarmed husband atSome tempted to disarm her months later pretty Mrs Bennett collected $10000 insurance for her husband’s death While the trial was still in progress the world was shocked by news of other tragedies that stemmed directly from the astonafter-dinne- r ishing rise of bridge as an amusement Harry Meacham of Wilkes-bor- o North Carolina was a man who did not take his hobby of auction lightly One night during a streak of wret hed luk he announced to his fellow players that he would kill the next per- - Weeping Taken Klin It- - t u 1 1 Mr Bennett Being the ( ourtroom TA her A quitted of Murdering ilnnl In the Ouarml |
