Soapy Smith 



his band, mounted a horse, and proceeded 

 down the street to " make hay >: generally. 

 At the jetty end of the town he came face to 

 face with the sheriff, and without giving him 

 time to talk Soapy began shooting, mortally 

 wounding his man. The sheriff, although dying, 

 drew his revolver and shot Soapy dead. Then 

 there was a general pandemonium, the towns- 

 people proving victorious. 



During the Cuban War Soapy is supposed to 

 have offered to raise for the U.S.A. Government 

 a body of men to be called " Smith's Rifle 

 Rangers," to be commanded by himself. A 

 witty American, who knew the man and his 

 methods, summed up the offer dryly by saying, 

 " Soapy Smith ! I guess he'd range on the out- 

 skirts of any battlefield and rifle the pockets of 

 the dead." 



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