The State - News from May 11, 1988

San Francisco investment broker Claxton Long did not die from blows received in a barroom beating, Santa Barbara County authorities said. Long, 47, may have died of a pre-existing medical condition, coroner’s officials said after an autopsy. “We cannot find anything traumatic which would have caused the death, such as fractures or contusions,” Sheriff’s Detective Fred Ray said. Long was in Solvang for the Los Rancheros Vistadores horseback ride across the Santa Ynez Mountains when he was attacked Friday. Randall J. Holland, 32, a resident of Santa Ynez who had no prior record, was arrested. The blows that struck Long were “not extensive at all,” Ray said. “The injuries were minor.” He said authorities were looking at “such things as heart attack or aneurysm,” and await the results of toxicological tests due next week.