Joe "Hooch" Simpson

Joseph L. Simpson (September 1874 - April 22, 1908), also known as Joe "Hooch" (or "Hootch") Simpson, was an American miner and saloon owner who was lynched by a vigilante mob at Skidoo, California and hung from a telegraph pole after being arrested for the murder of James Arnold, and was, allegedly, dug up and re-hanged for the media who arrived after the fact. Following the second hanging, the head of Joe Simpson was said to have been removed by a local physician and the body itself dumped down an abandoned mine shift.