It is 1886 and One Eyed Peg Leg Larry and his gang of outlaws were finally found guilty for murder. The law had been trying to catch Larry for years. Sheriff Roy Coffee not only apprehended the murderous good for nothing, he was to collect the $1,500 bounty for Larry's arrest, conviction, and execution. The punishment was hanging.
The town of Dead Skunk had a policy that if the condemned didn't die within 5 minutes, they were cut down and free to walk.
But no one had ever lasted more than a minute.
Sheriff Roy Coffee excitedly pointed to Larry and yelled to the executioner, "Hang the man with the wood leg!" Coffee couldn't collect his bounty until Peg Leg was officially pronounced dead.
Later that afternoon, Sheriff Coffee sees One Leg at the saloon smoking a cigar, drinking rum, and playing poker with one of the parlor girls sittin' on his lap. He turns and rushes back to the the jail snorting fire from his nostrils and yells at the executioner, "Why is that no good for nothing murderous outlaw still alive?!"
"We tried to hang him with the wood leg, but we couldn't wrap it around his neck," the executioner replied. "We tried for five minutes, then we gave his leg back and let him walk."
