On the subject of shooting wives, there is the story of the man and wife playing bridge back in the 1920s. On one hand the wife picked up all thirteen spades, and gleefully called 7 No Trumps, instead of 7 Spades, forgetting that as declarer she was not on lead. She did not take a single trick. At the end of the hand the husband stood up, pulled out his Derringer from his waistcoat pocket and shot her dead. When the case came to court the judge, himself a keen bridge player, directed the jury to return a verdict of justifiable homicide.