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Crime History: Soapy Smith’s con game comes to a violent end

By Scott McCabe

Published July 7, 2011 4:00am ET

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Crime History: Soapy Smith’s con game comes to a violent end — Soapy Smith

On this day, July 8, in 1898, the king of the frontier con was shot by vigilantes.

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