In the Old West, a cowboy rides into a strange town one day and sees carpenters finishing work on a gallows. He enters the local saloon and asks the bartender, "Hey, are you folks gonna hang somebody?"
The bartender nods, "Yup, we're fixin' to hang Brown Paper Pete this afternoon." The cowboy asks, "How come he's called Brown Paper Pete?" "Well," says the barkeep, "he's always wearin' clothes made of brown paper. Brown paper shirts, brown paper pants. Hell, he even wears brown paper socks."
The cowboy ponders this for a moment, then asks, "What are ya hangin' him fer?
"Rustlin'," replied the bartender.
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