Soapy Smith gambling house. Legend has it that above the entrance of the stairway leading upstairs to the gambling games was a sign that read "caveat emptor", Latin for "let the buyer beware". Smith's younger brother, Bascomb Smith, joined the gang and operated a cigar store that was a front for dishonest poker games and other swindles, operating in one of the back rooms. Other operations included fraudulent lottery shops, a "sure-thing" stock exchange, fake watch and bogus diamond auctions, and the sale of stocks in nonexistent businesses. Because of bribes, some of the police officers patrolling the streets would not arrest
Beware of the Dog (short story) Beware of the Dog (short story) "Beware of the Dog" is a 1944 World War II story by Roald Dahl which was originally published in "Harper's Magazine" and later appeared in his "" collection. Its basic plot was adapted into the 1965 movie "36 Hours", starring James Garner and Rod Taylor, and the TV movie "Breaking Point" in 1989. Pilot Peter Williamson has sustained a massive injury while flying a mission over Vichy France (the name given to the German-controlled areas of the country). He ejects from the plane and later awakes to find himself in a hospital bed in