The Big Story - The Hunch that Paid Off

Bill Griffith, a reporter for the Youngstown Vindicator, a newspaper based in Ohio, is being sent by his boss to the Hodge Mansion. It seems Mr. Clive Hodge, the mining millionaire, has shot and killed his wife, Mrs. Amy Hodge. The police are currently at the scene. The boss says "when you arrive, have the secretary show you into the library. There, you will see Detective Bromley and a couple of his men listening to Mr. Hodge trying to explain what happened". After Bill arrives, Mr. Hodge says to the Detective "after dinner, Amy was resting on the loveseat. She hadn't been feeling well." Bromley asks "how did you come to have a shotgun in the library, Mr. Hodge?" He replies "we were nearly robbed the night before, and I carried it around for protection. Amy fell asleep, so I prodded her with the gun to wake her up, never thinking the gun would go off."