Show A TALE OF TERROR cannibalism am in a camp of colorado alfred packers horrible story BT by W U telegraph raph to the I herald ferald 11 DENVER march 17 Sheriff sinith of hinsdale county arrived from fort fetterman with J L Pack erthe murderer add cannibal who killed ave men near the site of lake city nine years ago after the slaughter the slayer ii lived m for fora a number of days off aff the body of ono one of his victims packer belonged to a party of five prospectors overtaken in the winter ey by famine according to statements made by him ft when hn captured at pa sa gua clie a few weeks after the occurrence tare t the e yon party arty were upon tipon the point of starvation A and agreed ag among themselves to kill each ea other by lot at such times as the bodies 0 of f the victims were required for fo food od this story has been discredited from first to last by the people of that country because the bodies of four men were iv ving together with bullet holes th through the skull skulls and one with ills his head cho chopped detloff pet loff off general charles adama at tate the time of the indian commissioner of colorado obtained the following statement from pack packer er 1 1 I l alfred packer desire to make a true and voluntary statement in re aard to occurrences in southern colorado during the winter of 1863 1 I wish to make it ta mr air adama adams be cause eduse I 1 made him one before about the same matter when we left ouray camp we had bad about seven days food for one man we traveled two or three days and it began to storm we came to a mountain crossed by a golch on about the fourth day and we ha had only about a pound of flour left we followed the mountain till we came to the main range I 1 do not remember how many days we were traveling then I 1 think about ten days living on rosebuds and pine g gam nm a and nj borne of the men crying and praying then we came over the main range a and lad camped twice on a stream which runs into big lake the second night just above the lake next rooming clorn ing we crossed the lake and cut boles holes in the ice tee to catch fieh fish there were no 0 11 fish so we tried to catch snails th the at ice was thin and broken through we crossed the lake and went into a groveff grove of timber alithe all the men inen ere crying find and one of them was crazy san sau asked me to go and see if I 1 could see something from froin the th mountain 1 I V tok loic k n gun n anal went up the hill and foa found stig alia rosebush rosc bush with buds stick sticking ing tit through rough the snow but could see nothing but snow all around I 1 had been a kind of a guide for them but I 1 did not know die the mountains from a side aide of sole leather when I 1 came back to the batup after being bein pone gone nearly all dat day I 1 found the tile re red headed man who had lad been crazy in the morning sitting neara fire roasting a 8 dieco of meat which he lie had cut out of aa the leg of the german butcher mills the tile lattera latt erd body lying down the stream his ilia skull was crushed in with a hatchet the ile other three men were byln near the fire when the man saw 1110 e he lid got up with irith his hatchet ran toward me and I 1 shot himsl deway through the belly lie ile fell on liis his face the hatchet fell for avard and I 1 grabbed it stand and ht him on the top of the head I 1 alien lighted a fire and bat sat up all night the next morning I 1 tried to th follow my tracks on the mountain but could not make it it the snow was too deep I 1 came back and beet t up two sticks and then with pine boughs made a shelt shelter ir about three feet high this was my rny camp amp till icamen I 1 fame out ont I 1 went back to abe alie fire and covered tle the men up lip and fetched to the camp the pieces of meat that were wp renear near the fire I 1 theat made a new firo fire near in my fire and nd 1 cooked a piece of the meat and I 1 al ae e it I 1 tried to pet get away every day diy but could not fo so I 1 lived off tho the llesh i of man men the biggest part of the thirty days I 1 was wag there then il it began to thaw maw and I 1 started up tip the creek where a big slide of yellow clay lay beamed to come down the mountain c thero I 1 started up ill but getting my ny feet wet and having ha ing only a piece of blanket around them froza froze both feet under the toes I 1 camped before I 1 reaching the top and snaking ni akio a fire stayed all night ilie the next day I 1 made a dethe the top of I 1 the hill and a little over acted pits pil an ins tip a number of logs and anti building a farej then camped campe dand and cooked aonie some of the flesh I 1 had carried alone along n with ith me ine for food I 1 carried only a blanket there were 70 among ilia he non mon and I 1 fet fetched clied it out with me and one pun gun tho the redheaded red headed man bell had a W va bill in liis his pocket all the others together had only 20 1 I had VO 20 my ray self if ther ewas any more money moner in the outfit I 1 did not know it and it remained there at the last camp just before I 1 readied reached the agene agency I 1 ate my last piece of meat this meat I 1 cooked at the camp before I 1 started out and put it into a bag and carried the bag with me I 1 could cat eat but a little at a time when I 1 went out with t the he party from the agency to search for the bodies we came to the mountains mountain s overlooking the stream but I 1 did not want to take them further er I 1 dd not want to go back to the camp r when hen I 1 was at ilia lie sheriffs Sherif rs cabin in sal saga a ache I 1 was passed a key made out of ot A a penknife bla blade dewith w ith which I 1 could unlock the iron do door r and an J I 1 went to arkansas worked all summer for john Gill eighteen miles below pueblo then I went to gilberts ranch still further down the river and put in a crop of corn and sold it to julin gill and I 1 went to arizona |