Show ALI packer AND 01 1 I 1 THE 10 ST I 1 the supposed murderer tells A WONDROUS STORY OF WITH the famous lost mine theory revived by a mysterious CHART DRAWN BY PACKER an old prison guard knows something of the secret the old mountaineer writes a letter of information and afterwards destroys it eastern men interested I 1 colo dec 17 special to tim alfred packer who Is nov noi serving a forty years sentence for the tile murder lau ader of his five companions in april 1874 expects to gain hia ilia liberty within a few weeks since it is possible that he lie may be a free man there is some credence placed in the story that he told dr G W dawson over six years ao ago daring during hi lit a sickness he lie asked for paper that he might make a statement before be he died to his physician dr 11 IV damaon di 78 oil he h e stated that ey even ell if he d died led in prison be he know knew enough to make hundreds hun keds of people rich and that ho he was beginning to think he would tell his secret before he lie died with the pen and ink packer made a diagram and map of the country wherein tho murder was committed and then wrote a descriptive ser etive letter but would not give il it up and find the prison officials believing be he would did awat thought then that this latter letter was a dying of crime and that all would the be plain after ter he was gone upon the diagram he lie made of the tile 17 mining district he lie designated a spot as the lost mine and said there wag was millions in it but and he lie sighed heavily as he said it only for that spot I 1 would not be hero here and my chums would bo be alive the letter was directed to his aunt wh who 0 lives in pennsylvania but bat the next day after the letter was written there came a change and be lie beg began an to improve as there was a change for the better he burned tho letter but kept the map john Burg burghart hirt an old guard at the prison and one to whom packer seemed to t D take special fancy has of hoard heard packer talk of money he lie would have if lie ever got out but now that there is a show for packer scouring his ills freedom it revives all these matters in view of the fact that there are thirty days time for which mr packer would never account and that there was plenty of game il in the tile country at the time lie claims ho he and his companions suffered much ell privation yet they had guns gans and antonti ammunition mitlon and although the party was in ill the hills for 8 alx lx weeks and all wera were practical mountaineers there is no evidence of their having gone into camp for any extended time the story odthe of th aLost lost mine stine the th e mineral in n that he took into camp at agency his story of the secret and the money he lie would possess all serve to confirm the tile statement that was made by a man well wel posted on the case that the party discovered the lost mine quarrelled quarrel led over their find packer and bell murdered their companions and packer then murdered bell the bodies of the five prospector 9 were badly torn and lacerated by the wild animals is when found later and fill this stry of packer having shot bell never came out until after he bad had learned the full particulars through the daily press of the country taken all through those who know most of the case most readily believe that packer and his party discovered the lost mine and blat certain mantu men in the east have interested themselves in the case with the tile expectation expect aaion that if packer is released ho he will reward them by disclosing the tile whereabouts of the famous mine and that all expect to be made fabulously rich packer is a nephew of win P F packer goyer governor nor of pennsylvania in 1857 1837 58 50 |