Marin County Deaths

Transcribed by Betty Wilson

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 MURDER OF GRAZIER AND HIS WIFE.
	Grazier who kept a saloon in part of his house at the head of Tomales 
bay, sometime in the year 1856, was with his wife, murdered under the following 
circumstances:  John Carroll and Thomas Hammond went into the saloon, and 
while there the latter got into a quarrel with the proprietor, when the first named 
ruffian drew a revolver saying he would shoot anyone that interfered.  Grazier, 
who was sickly, was beaten so severely by Hammond that eventually he died.  
On Mrs. Grazier interfering, she was knocked down, stamped upon, and torn 
with the rowels of a Spanish spur from the effects of which she died a few 
days after her husband.  Carroll and Hammond were both tried and sentenced 
to twenty-one years in the State Prison.

History of Marin County, California; Including Its Geography, Geology, 
Topography and Climatology; by J. P. Munro-Fraser, Historian; Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers, San Francisco, California, 1880