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"The chances are five to one that had he (Packer) been tried anywhere except Lake City, he would have been acquited." - Pueblo Chieftain
"The trial has been a remarkable one; as remarkable as the crime itself, and the course persued by the prisoner. Packer's statement on the stand, particularly regarding the killing of Bell, was a cunningly conceived defense, and had he told the same story at Los Pinos in '74, and always since adhered to it, at the same time telling the whole truth about the attendant circumstances, he probably never would have been accused of the crime which his incriminating statements then and subsequent course since fastened upon him." - Gunnison - Press Review
"Major Downer of Saguache, the Justice of the Peace mentioned in the case, as one who could have cleared him if he would have told the facts." - Alferd G. Packer
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