Mysterious Murders
Two Man Found Killed on Two California Ranches
Sacramento Cal. Sept 2-- The dead bodies of William Taylor and Hansen Rasmussen were found to-day on adjoining ranchers near Folsom Both men had been murdered, Taylor was shot through the head and stomach. Two bullets were imbedded in Rasmussen's head and one in his right side Taylor was an elderly man employed to care for the ranch of Prazzo Brothers, who have taken their stock to the mountains to graze Rasmussen worked on the place of William Carpenter, a mile distant. He was also alone on the ranch. Each man had been killed in his employer's house and neither had been seen since last Thursday, Nothing about the house was disturbed, except a trunk in the Prazzo residence, but it does not appear that anything was taken. There is not the slightest clew to the person of persons who murdered the men and the whole affair is wrapped in the deepest mystery
 Anaconda Standard  9/3/1900
Contributed by Erica Beatty