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As reported by a local Colorado newspaper in 1874, months after Packer came down from the Rocky Mountains alone, claiming that it was one of his traveling companions who had made a stew of the others, and Packer had killed the real cannibal in self-defense (clearly, no one believed him):
"Stand up yah voracious man-eatin' sonofabitch and receive yir sintince. When yah came to Hinsdale County, there was siven Dimmycrats. But you, yah et five of 'em, goddam yah. I sintince yah t' be hanged by th' neck ontil yer dead, dead, dead, as a warnin' ag'in reducin' th' Dimmycratic populayshun of this county. Packer, you Republican cannibal, I would sintince ya ta hell but the statutes forbid it."
Packer, who kept escaping, getting sentenced to death, and escaping again, was finally sentenced to 40 years in prison but paroled in 1901. Then he became a vegetarian. His preserved head is on permanent display at the Ripley's Believe it or Not in New Orleans.
Source: Alferd Packer
"Stand up yah voracious man-eatin' sonofabitch and receive yir sintince. When yah came to Hinsdale County, there was siven Dimmycrats. But you, yah et five of 'em, goddam yah. I sintince yah t' be hanged by th' neck ontil yer dead, dead, dead, as a warnin' ag'in reducin' th' Dimmycratic populayshun of this county. Packer, you Republican cannibal, I would sintince ya ta hell but the statutes forbid it."
Packer, who kept escaping, getting sentenced to death, and escaping again, was finally sentenced to 40 years in prison but paroled in 1901. Then he became a vegetarian. His preserved head is on permanent display at the Ripley's Believe it or Not in New Orleans.
Source: Alferd Packer
