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Leonel Campbell Ross O'Bryan (1857–16 July 1938), known under the pen name Polly Pry, was a controversial reporter for The Denver Post and later as a freelancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
15. Okt. 2017 · Mrs. Leonel Ross O’Bryan, aka “Polly Pry”, was a tabloid journalist for The Denver Post. Her most sensational story resulted in the pardon of the “cannibal” Alfred Packer. Her descriptive and...
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The Polly Pry was a combination of gossip column, tabloid magazine, and serious writing. Rumors about celebrities were published alongside investigative journalism pieces. Nell attacked unions, capitalists, anarchists, communists, and the government.
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- Cannibal Grill and coffin races
- 'Dead, dead, dead'
- The smoking gun?
- “Blind injustice”
Alferd Packer survived for weeks in the frozen wilderness by eating his companions—this much he admitted. But details uncovered decades later don’t match the official narrative.
Mystery is the hallmark of Alferd Packer’s life. Even the spelling of his name—Alferd or Alfred—is debated.
July 17, 1989 was hot and muggy in Lake City, Colorado, and sweat dripped from the grad students’ faces as they dug up the skeletons. When they exposed the first skull, a gaping hole in its forehead, the crowd of onlookers let out a gasp and reporters rushed to the town’s four public pay phones to file the sensational story: “Professor Exhumes 100-Year-Old Victims of Colorado Cannibal.”
When the team led by law professor James Starrs finished digging, they had unearthed the skeletons of five men. All were allegedly murdered and partially consumed by a shifty character known variously as Alferd Packer, Alfred Packer, and, most notoriously, the Colorado Cannibal.
There are several versions of Packer’s story, but the essential facts are these: Born near Pittsburgh in 1842, he suffered from epilepsy from an early age—an affliction and stigma that would dog his steps all his days. He enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War but was discharged due to his frequent seizures.
After the war Packer rattled around the country, landing in Utah in 1873. Late that fall he joined a group 20 prospectors headed to southwestern Colorado. There was news of a gold strike there, and “marvelous tales of enormous fortunes to be had for the mere asking,” according to one newspaper account.
I drive up to Lake City hoping to sift fact from folklore. Strolling the town’s wood-plank sidewalks, I see no signs of ambivalence about Packer—but plenty of unabashed boosterism. Here you can eat at the Packer Saloon & Cannibal Grill and stay at the Cannibal Cabins. Over the years the town has hosted an annual Al Packer Day featuring coffin races, mystery-meat eating competitions, and an Al Packer look-alike contest.
When I ask old-timers around town for information about Packer, almost everyone points me to Grant Houston, head of the Hinsdale County Historical Society and editor and publisher of the local newspaper, the Lake City Silver World.
“Many people here, myself included, would tell you that Packer was guilty,” Houston says when we chat in his office. “I grew up with the people who had been here at the turn of the century, and their grandparents who had been here, perhaps on the Packer jury even. They believed Packer lured the men up here, because they had money or guns or something he coveted, dispatched them, and then took off.”
While Houston sides with the Packer jury, others have raised doubts about the jurors’ qualifications. Of 57 prospective jurors interviewed, 54 admitted prior knowledge of the case, and 44 stated they had preconceived opinions of Packer’s guilt. Eventually, Judge Melville Gerry had to order the sheriff to “scour the highways and byways” for candidates to fill the jury. He somehow accomplished the job in a few hours.
The Hinsdale County Courthouse in Lake City, built in 1877 and recently restored to its historic appearance, is the oldest operating courthouse in Colorado. As I walk through the two-story structure, the wood floors creak and groan under every step. The walls are lined with Packer memorabilia, including newspaper accounts and official records from the trial.
The second-floor courtroom looks much as it did in Packer’s day—minus the porcelain spittoons and signs ordering “Do Not Spit on the Floor.” A portrait of Packer hangs in a back corner.
On April 9, 1883, the day Packer’s trial began, the courtroom was filled to capacity. The prosecution presented some two dozen witnesses. Otto Mears, a prominent local businessman, testified that Packer possessed valuable Wells Fargo drafts when he emerged from the mountains. Constable Herman Lauter recounted how Packer, when ordered to hand over a knife, instead lunged at him with murder in his eyes.
Left: Packer confessed to killing one of his fellow prospectors, but only in self-defense. Some sleuths believe this Colt revolver, reportedly discovered at the site of the shooting, was the gun he used. Others remain unconvinced.
Right: Driven to desperation by cold and hunger, Packer ate the flesh of his unfortunate companions after cooking it in a tin cup, according to this testimony. A remnant of a 19th-century tin cup uncovered at Packer's campsite may lend credence to his account.
Preston Nutter, one of the prospectors who waited out the winter with the Ute Indians, testified that Packer had been skulking about trying to discover how much money each man was carrying.
In 1994, more than a century after Packer was marched off to prison, David Bailey, former curator of history at the Museums of Western Colorado, was inventorying a collection of historic firearms when he came across an 1862 Colt revolver, a sidearm commonly used by 19th-century prospectors. Three .38 caliber cartridges were still loaded in the pistol. The yellowed accession card stated: “This gun found at the site where Alferd Packer killed and ate his companions.”
The discovery launched Bailey on a 10-year investigation. He learned that during the 1989 exhumation, a hole about the size of a thimble had been found in Bell’s hip bone. Professor Starrs attributed the hole to a scavenging animal’s fangs, but Bailey wondered if it might have been made by a bullet.
He persuaded the Hinsdale County Historical Society, which still owned the 1989 forensic samples, to share them with Richard Dujay, director of the Electron Microscopy Lab at Mesa State College. Dujay and his team examined Bell’s samples and discovered a tiny fragment of lead. The fragment’s chemical composition matched that of the bullets in Bailey’s old Colt revolver.
Using a similar 1860s pistol, the team fired a bullet into an elk hip bone. The resulting hole matched the one in Bell’s hip, supporting Packer’s claim that he shot Bell. Bailey believed he had cracked the case.
Grant Houston, however, remains skeptical. Back in the day, he says, tourists were always finding old guns and bullets near the massacre site and claiming they belonged to Packer or one of the other prospectors. Even Michelle Pierce, Packer’s staunchest defender, is unconvinced that Bailey’s pistol is the smoking gun.
But in the court of public opinion, Bailey consistently wins his case. Through the years, residents of Lake City, Boulder, and other Colorado towns held mock trials for Packer. Actors played the key roles and audience members served as jurors. When Bailey’s evidence was included, the jurors acquitted Packer more often than not.
Seeking vindication became the goal of Packer’s life after he landed in prison. He made many appeals for a pardon but was refused time and again.
In 1899, Denver Post writer Polly Pry visited Packer at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City. “The corroding desire for freedom has eaten into his heart,” she reported, “and the blind injustice of the world has seared into his soul.”
Believing Packer had been unjustly tried and convicted, Pry launched a media campaign to bring attention to his plight. Packer gained many allies who signed a petition calling for his pardon.
“Supposing the man did commit the crime,” one supporter wrote to Colorado Governor Charles Thomas. “After such privations, I do not see how he could be held responsible. The line between sanity and insanity is often very thin, and I don’t think we understand it.”
As his last act in office, Governor Thomas granted Packer parole, but not pardon.
Packer took up residence in Denver but found city life intolerable, so he moved a few miles out to Littleton to be closer to the mountains. He bought some copper claims and went about prospecting again, until his epilepsy got the better of him. He died in 1907, age 65.
29. Nov. 2021 · “A Lasting Disgrace” - In 1903, The Denver Post investigative journalist Polly Pry exposed abuses at the Fort Lewis Indian Boarding School that shocked the nation. Her reporting brought to light the mistreatment of Native children that was all too common at boarding schools throughout the nation.
26. Sept. 2021 · Polly Pry: shocking from the start. Polly Pry was of the category of women in the 19th century that came from wealthy families and decided to become career women, utilizing their privilege and connections to get there.
30. Okt. 2020 · While he was still incarcerated, a controversial columnist with The Denver Post who wrote under the name Polly Pry launched a movement on Packer’s behalf, urging others that he was innocent, Houston said.
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