Why Did Your Accused Couple Do All This?

Why a cut off shotgun, of all weapons, and an american one at that? Could they be so sure that the sound of it would not bring some one on to them. It's a mere chance, as it is, that missus allen did not start out to inquire for the slamming door. Then again, if a woman and her lover conspire to murder a husband, are they going to advertise their guilt by ostentatiously removing his wedding ring after his death? Does that strike you as very probable? Watson, no, it does not. But how often is imagination the mother of truth?