Justice in the Old West

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by Dominus_Potior

If only they were allowed to speak to criminals like that nowadays

Speak to them?? I kinda liked the part about Oak Trees and

that vultures may descend from the heavens upon your filthy body until nothing shall remain but the bare bleached bones

That's justice...

[Richard]

From the October 1977 issue of American Heritage:

We have no information about the frustrated bard of a judge who composed this, or of the unfortunate José Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales. We asked the editors of Antaeus magazine, in whose Autumn, 1976, issue we found the sentence, but they had no information other than that the case was United States of America v. Gonzales (1881), United States District Court, New Mexico Territory Sessions. We couldn’t find it, but perhaps some of our readers might know of it.

http://www.americanheritage.com/arti...10_print.shtml

Here's another good one:

Take, for example, a diatribe said to have been delivered by Judge M. B. Gerry when sentencing Alferd E. Packer to death for having killed and eaten five companions while caught in a Colorado blizzard in 1873. (See “Postscripts” for the April, 1977, issue.) “Stand up, you man-eating son-of-a-bitch, and receive your sentence!” Judge Gerry reportedly began. “There were seven Democrats in Hinsdale County, but you, you voracious, maneating son-of-a-bitch, you ate five of them. I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you’re dead, dead, dead, as a warning against reducing the Democratic population of the state.”

We could use a few Alfred Packers in this country today.

Richard

[ZonieDiver]

Originally Posted by Richard

Here's another good one:

Take, for example, a diatribe said to have been delivered by Judge M. B. Gerry when sentencing Alferd E. Packer to death for having killed and eaten five companions while caught in a Colorado blizzard in 1873. (See “Postscripts” for the April, 1977, issue.) “Stand up, you man-eating son-of-a-bitch, and receive your sentence!” Judge Gerry reportedly began. “There were seven Democrats in Hinsdale County, but you, you voracious, maneating son-of-a-bitch, you ate five of them. I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you’re dead, dead, dead, as a warning against reducing the Democratic population of the state.”

We could use a few Alfred Packers in this country today.

Richard

And in his memory - In 1968, students at the University of Colorado at Boulder named their new cafeteria grill the Alferd G. Packer Memorial Grill with the slogan "Have a friend for lunch!" Even today students can enjoy the meat-filled "El Canibal" underneath a giant wall map outlining his travels through Colorado.

[Richard]

Originally Posted by ZonieDiver

And in his memory - In 1968, students at the University of Colorado at Boulder named their new cafeteria grill the Alferd G. Packer Memorial Grill with the slogan "Have a friend for lunch!" Even today students can enjoy the meat-filled "El Canibal" underneath a giant wall map outlining his travels through Colorado.

I'm surprised that anti-US and phoney UofC professor Ward Churchill (the victims of 9-11 were "little Eichman's" and deserved to be attacked ) ever allowed that to go unchallenged!

Richard

[lksteve]

Originally Posted by Richard

I'm surprised that anti-US and phoney UofC professor Ward Churchill...ever allowed that to go unchallenged!

Even the CU Board of Regents get a little hide-bound about some traditions...