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Eating His Weight in Democrats

by | Mar 1, 2004 | Inside History

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It was one of the most outrageous quotes of the Old West about one of the most barbaric crimes. In 1883, a 34-year-old tracker named Alferd Packer faced a judge and jury in Lake City, Colorado, as the only man in the United States ever charged with the crime of cannibalism. At his sentencing, Judge Melville B. Gerry was said to declare: “Stand up, you voracious, man-eating son of a bitch, stand up! There was seven democrats in Hinsdale County and you up and ate five of them. God damn


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