There Was A Crooked Man

Douglas leads a gang that robs half a million dollars from O'Connell. The only survivor of the gang, Douglas ties up the loot in a pair of ladies' bloomers and drops it into a rattlesnake pit for safekeeping. Later the depressed O'Connell visits the local brothel. Since he doesn't have any money, the madam lets him look through a peephole at another client enjoying the company of two of the girls. He recognizes the man as the one who robbed him and soon Douglas has been arrested by sheriff Fonda and shipped off to the territorial prison. There Douglas soon establishes himself as top dog,and when the warden, Gabel, finds out about the still-hidden loot, he offers to...