Paul et al - Whatever Al the Packer did is history, check out this
beaut. Just when you think you've heard it all, here's a tasty morsel
about a fellow in Germany who dined for almost a year on Filet de
Frank! http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-755597,00.html
At 11:03 PM 7/30/2003 -0700, PAsgeirsson wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: conan <conan@intrex.net>
>To: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:16 PM
>Subject: re: Colorado humor (no lbc)
>
>
> > per Jay...
> > >>31. You know who Alfred Packard was.
> >
> > Wasn't that Alfred 'Packer'? :-)
> > Ed in NC (never been to CO)
>
>Alfred Packer! Read on! If you're a democrat it might upset you! From an
>internet site----
>
>Paul A
>
>
>alfred packer the san juan cannibal
>
>The Packer case was the first, and possibly the only incident of cannibalism
>tried in the U.S. court system.
>
>He was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania in 1842 and migrated west in
>1862. There is some confusion about the spelling of his first name. His
>tombstone reads "Alferd" and some say he spelled it this way.
>
>In the winter of 1873 he was hired as a guide in Salt Lake City by 20 men
>for a prospecting trip into the San Juan mountains of Colorado.
>
>He claimed to have driven an ore wagon in some of the mining camps of
>Colorado and that he could lead them to the valuable ore they were looking
>for. In truth, he knew very little about this region.
>
>In January 1874 the group stopped over at the village of Chief Ouray and
>were warned not to try crossing the mountains until spring. Packer and five
>of the group decided to continue on into the mountains.
>
>During early spring the rest of the group traveled across the mountains and
>inquired about the Packer party. A search team was then sent out to look for
>the missing men.
>
>Two months earlier, Packer had appeared at the Los Pinos Indian Agency
>looking fit and well fed. His primary interest was in obtaining some
>whiskey, not food, and he had a large roll of money to pay for it.
>
>He first said that he had been left behind by the others due to a leg
>injury. His story was to change several times...later being that one of the
>men went beserk and killed the others and that he had shot the man in
>self-defense.
>
>An Indian guide found strips of human flesh on the trail and Packer was
>questioned. In August of 1894 the camp of the five missing men was found
>near Slumgullion Pass, 2 miles from Lake City.
>
>Packer was jailed in Saguache and later escaped to Wyoming, and for 9 years
>lived under an assumed name until his capture. Packer was returned to Lake
>City in 1883 to stand trial.
>
>The verdict was guilty, with death by hanging. The legend was that Judge
>Melville B. Gerry, on pronouncing sentencing said..."...There was siven
>Dimmycrats in Hinsdale County! But you, yah voracious, main-eatin son of a
>bitch, yah et five of them, therefor I sentence ye T' be hanged by the neck
>until y're dead, dead, dead!". This was probably not the exact statement
>made by the judge as he was a well educated man, but makes for good
>story-telling.
>
>Later the sentence was reduced to manslaughter and he was given 40 years to
>be served at the prison in Canon City.
>
>A reporter at the Denver Post became interested in the case and a campaign
>for Packer's release was started. He was paroled in January 1901 and moved
>to Denver where he hung around the Post building as an unofficial security
>guard until his death by natural causes in April 1907. Packer was buried at
>Littleton's Prince Avenue Cemetery near Denver.
>
>Years later the citizens of Lake City built a monument at the site of the
>Packer Massacre and then celebrated the event by throwing a huge fish fry
>with all the trimmings for the public.
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