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  • Byrd Lanier Rice (1901 - 1984)
    Witness in the Bridge Murder trial and nephew of John G. Bennett.
  • James Francis O'Sullivan (1894 - 1944)
    Defense attorney in the Bridge Murder trial.
  • John V. Hill (c.1891 - d.)
    Attorney from Kansas City, Missouri.Assistant prosecuting attorney in the Bridge Murder Case.
  • James Randolph Page (1876 - 1934)
    Attorney and Judge in Kansas City Missouri.
  • James A. Reed, U.S. Senator (1861 - 1944)
    James Alexander Reed, a Senator from Missouri; born on a farm near Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio, November 9, 1861; moved with his parents to Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, in 1864; attended the p...

The Bridge Murder case, also known as the Bridge Table Murder case was the trial of Myrtle Adkins Bennett, a Kansas City housewife, for the murder of her husband John G. Bennett over a game of contract bridge in September 1929.

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