Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Actually i got a very nice article to post but i couldn't get the html correct. Anyway it is in chinese but its quite nice la. Later la. Actually can1, it is only that i need time to correct it back so will probably divided into few parts. I will correct the html bit by bit la.
And a very important thing to announce here. If you see me online, don't believe it so leniently. Check on my display name with unicef sign and my blog url. It is because somebody hacked my profile and if u reply "me", your pc are sure to be in trouble. I even see myself online on my sister's contact list although i was not. Quickly delete "my" chatbox when u meet Christine. Sorry for inconvenience. I will try to solve the problem soon. I believed that my other account will be hacked soon too. As i told Allan, all my accounts are fishy.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Pikachuuuuuuuuuuu
Pikachuuuuuuuuuu
Thunder Shooooooockkkkk!!!!!!!
See la
Fei until......
You continue to stay in hell la
O no
Now is sweet corn?
Haiya
For sure
This post is specially for you la
Happy now la
Pikachu
Ps://Dear friends, do not think that i like pikachu. Actually i do not. Remember!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Alferd Packer Part II
Perhaps the most startling find was a “lost” journal that gave a detailed description
of the murder scene that could have possibly freed Packer if it had been available
during the trial. Other 1874 documents indicated that, although the bodies had
been exposed to the elements, each of the dead men were identifiable by their clothes
and physical features. A Civil War veteran who visited the crime scene stated that
Shannon Bell had been shot twice and the other victims were killed with a hatchet. Upon careful
study of Bell, he noticed a severe bullet wound to the pelvic area and that Bell’s wallet had a bullet hole through it. He also stated that only two shots were fired at the murder scene, both at Bell. This passage caught my attention because the rusted 1862 Colt pistol found many years later at the scene had two chambers empty and three loaded.
The facts from the 1874 investigation of the murder scene seemed to mesh with the physical
evidence, the 1862 Colt pistol. Packer stated numerous times during his trial that he shot the real killer Shannon Bell, but his testimony failed to convince the jury. What is even stranger is that visitors to the crime scene failed to report their findings on the witness stand, and in some cases lied about what they discovered. My case to prove Alferd Packer’s innocence came to a standstill in the spring of 1999. Even though I had physical evidence that matched Packer’s story, there was still no way to scientifically tie the gun to the murder scene. The pistol never was introduced as evidence because it was lost after Packer’s desperate fight with Bell and
not recovered until 1950 by Mr. Ronzio during his archeological excavation. As with many historical investigations, my chance to prove my case came unexpectedly during a visit to the Lake City Museum in October of 2000. The Museum of Western Colorado and the Hinsdale County Historical Society had just finished a joint exhibit on Alferd Packer. I asked Grant Houston, the Hinsdale County Historian, about the exhumation of the Packer party victims by Dr. James Starrs and a forensic team in 1989. He explained the team proved the bodies had been cannibalized and had met violent deaths. Each of the skeletons had been marked A
through E for scientific identification and then photographed. Skeleton A had a hole in the pelvic region and therefore must be Shannon Bell. Mr. Houston shocked me by mentioning that forensic samples had been taken from under the skeletons and were now in possession of the Hinsdale County Historical Society. I then asked if the Museum could borrow the samples from Skeleton A (Shannon Bell) for testing. Hopefully, there would still be gunshot residue in the samples to help prove Packer’s story that Shannon Bell had been shot at close range.
After receiving permission from the Hinsdale County Historical Society, I took
the samples to the Mesa State College Electron Microscopy Center in Grand Junction.
A team of scientists led by Dr. Richard Dujay, the facility manager, began to examine
the bits of wool fabric, old buttons, and soil for the traces of residue with the electron
microscope. Dr. Dujay knew the task of finding gunshot residue would be difficult
and stated, “It’s as if 127 years ago someone hit a baseball in the U.S. and now you’re asking to find it.”
However, on February 10, 2001, we found the “baseball,” a 50-micron piece of
lead. Dujay and other scientists discovered that the fragment was man-made because
of its structure, size, and composition. He next used an X-Ray spectrograph to analyze
the elemental makeup of the object. Dujay found that the object was consistent
with lead used for bullets during the post Civil War era. The scientists next took a
small sample from a bullet still in the gun and compared it with the lead fragment
underneath Skeleton A. The X- Ray spectrograph showed an exact match! Finally I had proof that linked the gun to the murder scene.
On February 12, 2001, Mesa State College hosted a national press conference
to release the new evidence found by the Packer research team. The tremendous
public interest in forensic science and its use in solving historical mysteries catapulted
the Packer story into an international media event. The story appeared in The Times of London and other international and national media outlets. For two solid days I did interviews, that included the national public radio stations in Great Britain, Australia, Canada, and
the United States. The Discovery Channel Canada also filmed a short documentary on the Packer Research project at the Museum of Western Colorado, Mesa state College, and at the murder site in Lake City.
The media attention was a nice benefit to all those years of research,
but my main focus was centered on the scientific examination of the
remaining forensic samples. Shortly after the press conference, the research
team confirmed the presence of a small, spherical piece of close-proximity
gunshot residue embedded in a wool fragment of Shannon Bell’s clothing.
This supported Packer’s account that he fired at close range after being
attacked with a hatchet. On April 27, 2001, an additional bullet fragment
was found in a forensic sample taken from under Shannon Bell’s body.
This gave additional credence to the theory that the bullet shattered after
hitting the bone in Bell’s hip region.
After renewed public interest in the Packer case, Historic Littleton Inc.,
a non-profit historical organization, decided to have a retrial of Alferd
Packer. On September 14, 2002, Alferd Packer was put on trial at the old
Littleton Town Hall. The characters in the trial were faithfully brought back to life by costumed
interpreters. The main difference in the trial was that Dr. Dujay and I were allowed to present
historical and forensic evidence that cast doubt on Packer’s guilt. We presented the modern
forensic evidence on nineteenth century placards with the proper melodramatic flair. The two
hundred and sixty five people in the audience also served as the jury and after a three hour trial
found Mr. Packer innocent. Even though it was only a mock trial, it felt liberating to finally see justice done. I remembered Packer’s prophetic last words before he was taken to prison, quoted so well in Paul Gannt’s book, The Case of Alfred Packer: The Man-Eater, “... In later years it will be cleared up for there has never been a case where a man has been sentenced unjustly that sooner or later it was not cleared up. I had one hope, and that was that sometime I would be able to hold up before the people of Colorado that I am not guilty of the murder of the four men. I killed Bell. I admit it, and have done so all along: on the stand, in public, and in jail...As I said, before, the whole mystery will be cleared up sometime.”
ps: End of Alferd Packer's report. Finally. Pikachu, Stay tuned. Coming up not sure which next about the ancient China. But I don't know when. You have to give me some time. And ya, I will post the ultraman after i complete it, ok. So be patient.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
I Have Got An Empty Chat Box
I have got a new chat box. Allan asked me to create 1. Ok i think i need to clarify something here. This blog i made it myself. Nobody hacked my profile and nobody create it for me. So brother Allan don't think too much ok. I still haven't receive any news that to receive my own photo.
Anyway alot were very surprise that i have my own blog. Haha. Alot even surprise that i finally make up friendster. But for readers information there is something wrong there. Allan will be very clear with it. Honestly. Ask him if u want to know. And lots more stories regarding online account 1 if u want to know.
Anyway, my sister happened to be in Cameron right now. I asked her to buy me tea and she say: " Crazy ar u all? I went tea farm today already! I am going MArdi tmr!" Die la you. Buy something for own blood sister also talk so much. Oya, tell u something. Mr Chee said that you are completely girlish. Wahahahahhahaha.....Go and scold him la not my fault ar......
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Somehow i found out that i am blind. Lol. What i mean here is real blind. Blind at eye not heart. I cant see a word without spec and the man was asking me whether i can see 'lensless'. Total stupid. No duhh...Oya this makes me think of Dr. Lee. A young male doctor which is quite funny and i dislike him for some reasons. I remembered that i was sick and voiceless asnd so i went to see him. When i am in his room, he asked me say my name out. HELLOOOO, i got no voice. And so i pointed at the patient card but this idiot kept asking me to say my name out as if he did not understand the reason i was there to see him. I beh song him for the first time.
Then it continued when my mum told him that i was completely voiceless. I think he only asked a few simple question for around 15 second and he said it was ok for me to go out already. I was ...... off course startled. I thougut he found it out and ask do i want to why am i like that. I was lagi startled. I thought it was his responsibility to tell his patient that. And so he continued to explain. He finally voiced out a question. Oops sorry, it is murmurs. Something like 'nei zhong yi sick jin zhao ye mou'? I was once again startled and i HUH? He started to feel fuzzy then and shout that he cant communicate with me. 我 很 難 跟 你 溝 通 le, 你 想 怎 樣?so he said. I ...... frown. I beh song him for the second time. Then we finally sorted out we should communicate in mandarin which i was supposed to whisper to him at that time. And so he asked me again whether i want him to explain anything to me. I damn beh song and i said NO. Where got doctor keep asking his patient what he want to know or does he want to know.
So i kindly advice readers, for fun jokes, go for Dr Lee. For cure, other expert please.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Alfred Packer @ Alferd Packer
Solving the West’s
Greatest Mystery:
...“This gun was found at the site where Alferd Packer
Was Alferd Packer Innocent of Murder
The mystery of what happened that fateful day would slowly come to light one hundred and twenty years later in a most unlikely place, the artifact storage area of the Museum of Western Colorado. As Curator of History at the museum in 1994, my intention was to photograph, document, and obtain the provenance or associated history of the firearms in the Audrey Thrailkill collection. The Thrailkill collection has an amazing assortment of pistols, rifles, carbines, and swords owned by the famous and infamous figures of the Wild West, such as Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, and outlaw members of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch.
killed and ate five of his traveling companions.”...
Many of the firearms have fascinating histories that were well documented and verified by firearms experts. Several had little or no historic information, but a few had tantalizing bits of information that connected them to important events in Colorado history. One of the most intriguing of these was an 1862 Colt Police Model pistol. The pistol was in poor condition–the grips were rotted off, the main spring broken, and the rusted cylinder of the gun still had .38 caliber bullets in three of its five chambers. The yellowed accession card with the gun cryptically stated, “This gun was found at the site where Alferd Packer killed and ate five of his traveling companions.” The card referred to one of the most infamous incidents in the American West. In the winter of 1874, Alferd Packer and five prospecting companions tried to cross the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado in order to reach the Los Pinos Indian Agency, 75 miles from present day Lake City. They were advised by the famous Ute leader, Chief Ouray, not to attempt this dangerous passage in winter, but the prospectors, anxious to get to a gold strike in Breckenridge, ignored his warning. In April of that year, only one man ventured out of the mountains, Alferd Packer. Suspicions were aroused and Packer was arrested after his companions were found murdered and partially eaten. Fearing that he would be lynched and hanged, Packer escaped from jail and stayed on the run for eight years. He was eventually arrested in
Cheyenne, Wyoming, tried, and after several changes of venue, was sentenced to forty years in prison.
During the trial, he told the jury that his prospecting companion, Shannon Bell, attacked him with a hatchet
after killing the other members in the party. Packer then fired his gun at Bell and killed him. After much
hesitation, Packer admitted to “eating the flesh of his fellow man” knowing that he was on the brink of death
from starvation. Packer later claimed that it was cannibalism that sent him to jail not murder charges. However, in 1901, Packer was paroled after sixteen years in prison due to the public outcry that he was convicted on flimsy circumstantial evidence. He eventually died in 1907, claiming to his last breath that he was innocent of murdering his traveling companions.
To think that this rusted relic could actually be the pistol that Packer used to shoot Bell intrigued me and I decided to find out whether or not this gun had actually been at the murder site. While researching the pistol’s origin, I found out it had been issued by the Colt Firearms Company as a cap and ball revolver in 1862. The gun was later re-released in 1873 and converted to fire .38 caliber rimfire bullets. This conversion pistol was popular with prospectors because it was inexpensive and this is probably why it accompanied the ill-fated Packer expedition. While I was working with archaeologist Phil Born in the Museum collections, he noticed the
pistol and recalled seeing a photograph of it taken by his cousin, Jim Harris, many years ago.
On April 14, 1994, I contacted this cousin in Texas and found out how the pistol came into the Museum’s
possession. The pistol had been unearthed by a young Western State College historian, Ernest Ronzio, in 1950.
Mr. Ronzio was a student of C.T. Hurst, the father of Colorado Archeology. After the pistol was found at the Alferd Packer massacre site on Cannibal Mesa, near Lake City, Colorado, it was brought to Jim Harris, then a member of the Uncompahgre Archaeology Society, to be photographed and studied. The pistol later went on
display at the Western State College Museum. I verified that the pistol had been in the Western State’s Museum collection when I noticed an old accession number on the backstrap of the gun. I called the librarian at Western State College and she found the old museum record book indicated that the accession number on the gun matched an entry in the book. This entry described the rusted condition of the pistol, that it came from the Alferd Packer site, and was loaned by Ernest Ronzio. Eventually the pistol was purchased by Audrey Thrailkill and given to the Museum of Western Colorado. Having established the proper time frame and location in conjunction with the Packer massacre, I began a search for every document related to the Packer case in hopes of connecting the pistol to the crime. From 1994 to 1999, I combed through archives, research libraries, old diaries, depositions, and hundreds of pages of the Packer trial documents. The evidence that emerged was astounding because many of the documents seemed to prove that Packer was innocent. I found much of the testimony given by the witnesses against Packer directly contradicted later interviews they gave to the press and other private sources.
Ps: It is a very famous piece of cannibalism information on Alfred Packer. I expected not many will be interested. This is my personal research but not my report. But I do keep a book entitled "A Voice For The Dead" by James E. Starrs. It is about the development in exhumation and one of the exhumation was done on this famous Alfred Packer.Coming up next is part 2 of Alfred Packer. Sorry for no illustration, it is quite troublesome.
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