Alfred Packer (1842-1907). In 1873, he guided a party of 20 men into the San Juan Mountains, continued in heavy snows against advice, and returned alone, saying his companions had abandoned him. Months afterward, search parties discovered the bodies of the missing men, most stripped of flesh. Packer was tried, found guilty of murder, and sentenced to 40 years of hard labor. Before he left the courtroom, he was assured of a place in posterity when the judge told him sternly, “Packer, you depraved Republican son of a bitch, there were only five Democrats in Hinsdale County, and you ate them all!”
Packer wasn't good at what he did, but he didn't quite wipe out the Democrats. I believe the quote attributed to Democrat Judge Melville B. Gerry was:
"You voracious man-eating son of a bitch, there was seven Democrats in Hinsdale County and you ate five of them. G*d damn you! I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, Dead, dead, as a warning against reducing the Democratic population of Hinsdale County. Packer, you Republican cannibal, I would sentence you to Hell but the statutes forbid it."
