Sacramento, Dec 29 (AP) The statue of a Nineteenth-century Northern California rancher and meat-packing magnate was decapitated earlier this week, leaving investigators within the state’s capital metropolis scratching their heads to discover a motive behind the vandalism.

Tipsters may obtain a USD 1,000 reward for details about what befell the practically century-old granite statue of Charles Swanston in Sacramento’s William Land Park on Monday. The severed head was discovered on the bottom close by.

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Swanston travelled west from Ohio as a part of the California Gold Rush and rapidly realized he’d make more cash as a butcher, in keeping with Sacramento City Historian Marcia Eymann.

Police are investigating whether or not the vandal — or vandals — had a beef with the Swanstons or if it was a random act.

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“I have no idea why anyone, unless they’re vegetarians and didn’t like meat-packers” would do that to the statue, Eymann stated Wednesday. “I find this very bizarre.”

The statue is the work of the late sculptor Ralph Stackpole, a well-known San Francisco artist in the course of the Great Depression period.

An early Sacramento pioneer and settler, Swanston then turned a rancher and began a meat-packing enterprise that made him wealthy. His son within the Nineteen Twenties commissioned the statue, which is a part of a fountain, and donated it to town after Swanston’s demise in 1911 at 101 years outdated, The Sacramento Bee reported.

The household’s ranch was positioned on what’s now William Land Park. Eymann stated if not for his son’s donation, town would possible have by no means put up a bit for Swanston.

“Not that anybody knows who he is, but that’s something very special that Sacramento had and now it’s destroyed,” she stated. (AP)

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