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    -VIOLENT RUN-INS-
.AA Jeff and Bascomb SmithA--
Devoted to the violent events in the lives of Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II and his younger brother Bascomb. Events include gunfights, saloon brawls, assaults, etc.
TIME-LINE:
| 1874-76 | Round Rock, Texas |
| Defending himself against a bully and he knocks a young ruffian out with a chunk of coal. | 1886-87
| Denver, Colorado
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| Strikes a drunk with his cane at the Palace Theater.
| | 1888 | Denver, Colorado | July 5 | Soapy gets into a street corner fight with two grangers and wins. | | 1889 | Denver, Colorado | July 21 | Logan Park brawl. Soapy, Bascomb and members of the Soap Gang fight in a city park with fists, clubs, bottles and an ax. |
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| July 29
| Beats John Arkins with cane almost killing him. Charged with attempted murder.
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| Aug 21-26
| Puts 5" dirk to throat of faro dealer then slashes faro layout.
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| Pocatello, Idaho
| Aug 30
| Shoots two men who tried to gun him down while sitting in a car at the train station.
| 1890
| Denver, Colorado
| May 16
| Knocks out James Dennis in the Tivoli Club. Dennis was impersonating a police officer.
| | 1892 | Creede,
Colorado | Feb. 12 | The "Louisiana Kid" ambushes Joe Palmer and others in front
of Jeff's saloon (The Orleans Club). Jeff is most probably involved in
the ensuing shoot-out. Joe Palmer
has both thumbs shot off, a bullet in an arm and a slight wound in the
body. |
| Denver, Colorado
| Oct. 11
| Soapy is implecated in the shooting death of Clifton Sparks in a shoot-out inside Murphy's Exchange. The mystery of whose gun the bullet came from was never solved.
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| Denver,
Colorado
| Nov. 6
| Bascomb strikes a voter and helps others throw him down a flight of stairs.
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| | 1898 | July 8 | Skagway,
Alaska | Jeff is killed in a shoot-out with vigilantes on Juneau Company
Wharf. He receives one bullet to the left arm, one to the left leg and
one in the chest cavity that strikes his heart. |
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