BORN IN: Switzerland
DIED: 3/28/1893
AGED: 50
CAUSE OF DEATH: Gunshot wound and Fractured Skull
DEATH LOCATION: near Spring Valley Stone
OCCUPATION: Watchman
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OBITUARY ---------------PETER VENETTI
Redwood City Democrat
April 6, 1893
The dead body of Peter Venetti was found on Saturday by one of the searching party in the gulch about a hundred yards from where he was shot by an assassin. He had three bullet holes in his body. One shot entered behind his ear, another in his breast, and the third in his leg. Besides this, his skull was crushed and some gashes on his body evidently made with a hatchet. It was found that the body was dragged about a hundred yards from where the shooting took place. The blood had been washed from the flume and an effort made to obliterate the trail and a bush stuck up to conceal the place where the body fell. After taking up this bush, it was easy to follow the course over which the body had been dragged to the point where it was found. It transpires that it was known that Vanetti, after losing money by the failure of the French Bank, constantly carried money with him in the same sack that he carried implements to repair the flume - he being flume- walker and in charge of the Pilarcitos dam for the Spring Valley Water works. He would roll the money belt in a bundle and put it in the sack with nails and hammer, laying it down and picking it up as occasion required, as he proceeded about his labors.
Several clues are being followed. It is generally believed, however, that the murder was committed by someone well posted about Venetti’s habits. The murdered man was supposed to have had with him from $5000 to $7000, also two gold chains, one made of nuggets which he dug from the mines in Sierra County, where he formerly lived, also valuable finger rings. The murdered man was buried Monday. The inquest is not yet concluded.
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