Show alf PACKER 0 AND I 1 THE LOST MINI N the supposed murderer der er tells A WONDROUS STORY STORI of the famous lost mine theory revived by I 1 a mysterious CHART DRAWN BY PACKER an old prison guard knows something of the facret the old mountaineer writes a letter of information and afterwards destroys it eastern men interested DENSER colo dec 17 special to THE TIIE STANDARD alfred d packer who is no now w serving a forty yeara sentence for the murder of his ills five companions in A april F n il 1874 expects to gain his liberty within a few weeks sincee is possible that he e may be a free man there is somo some credence placed in the story that ho lie told dr 0 W dawson over six years ago daring during III his 9 sickness he asked for paper that he lie might make a statement before he died to his physician dr G NV dawson ho lie stated that even if he died in prison ho he knew enough to make hundreds of people rich andt and that hatho he was beginning to think he lie 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 wrote a descriptive serl etive letter but would at not give il it up at and I 1 1 I tho the prison officials believing he would soon be dead did not molest him it was thought then that this letter was wag a dying confession contes sion of crime erime and that all would be plain alter after he was gone upon the diagram he made of the mining district ho lie designated a spot as the lost mine and said there was millions million 9 anit in it but and he lie sighed heavily ashe as he said it only for that spot I 1 would not bo be here and my chums would be alive the letter was directed to his ills aunt who lives in pennsylvania but the next day after the letter was written there came a change and ho lie began to improve As soon as there was a change for the better he be burned tho the letter but kennthe kept kent the map john burghart anold guard abt at the prison and one A fu whom packer seemed to take special fancy has oft inies heard packer talk of money he woula woul 1 have if be he ever got out but now that there is a I 1 show for A packer securing his ills freedom it re revives V ives all these matters in lit view of the fact that there are thirty days time for which mr packer would never account and that there was plenty 0 of game la in the country at the time lie claims he and his companions suffered arnich privation yet they bad had guns and I 1 ammunition and although the party was in in the hills for six weeks and all were practical mountaineers there is no evidence of their having gone into camp for any extended time ilie the story of tha the lost mine the mineral that he took into camp at agency his story of the secret and the mony monay be he would possess all serve to jo confirm the statement that was made by a man well posted on the case that the party discovered the lost mine quarrelled quarrel led over their find and bell murdered their companions and P packer ac ker then murdered bell the bodies odthe of the five prospectors were badly torn and lacerated by the wild a animals when found later and this story of packer having shot bell never camo came out until after ho lie had learned the full fall particulars through the dally daily press odthe of the country taken all through those who know mos most t I 1 of the tile case moat most readily believe that packer and nd his parly party discovered tha the lost a mille mine ll 11 and that certain men in the east have interested themselves in the case with the expectation that if packer is released he lie will reward them by disclosing the whereabouts of the famous mine and that all expect to be made fabulously rich packer is a nephew of win F packer governor I 1 of pennsylvania in 1857 33 50 |