Ail of the machinery of the company is of the latest design for auto and tractor repair. Since 1980, the California Constitution has shielded journalists who are subpoenaed by law enforcement to turn over unpublished information. The death certificates signed by Phillips on December 13 show they were indeed buried on the 11th in part of the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery. At 2:45 p. m. they were in the hands of the birdmen and on their way to Sacramento. Boyd shot Petray and two of his deputies dead on the spot. Healdsburg received its first visit from an airplane Saturday, when Lieutenant Fred Young dropped out of the sky into his home town, making a landing at the ball grounds, where on many occasions as schoolboy Fred had contested on the diamond and in athletic events. Pursued by big city lawmen, the trio ended up in a house eating soup in Santa Rosa, where, on Sunday, Dec. 4, they were cornered by Sonoma County Sheriff James Petray. SAN FRANCISCO NEWSPAPER MEN ON SCENE . In addition, minority populations have increased. The Press Democrats big extra was rushed by automobile to all the important towns in the county, as well as to many of the smaller places, and was followed an hour or more later by a complete morning edition containing two whole pages of news describing the lynching and other features associated with it. Fred planned to leave Healdsburg early Monday morning on his return trip to the aviation field at Riverside. The Petaluma Courier reported the hour and the place of [Fitts] burial was kept private. Welti announced both men had been buried but would not say where. When the officers arrived the man who had been standing in the highway started an argument with the other and started pursuing him, kicking him as he ran. In fact, the obscene photograph, festooned with pieces of the nooses, was the centerpiece of a display in the Sheriffs Office created shortly after the lynching, according to historical newspaper reports. Believe it or not: Ray Lattins name still pops up in Today in History type newspaper columns because he was owner and trainer of King the wonder dog in the early 1940s. Lieutenant W. A. Maxwell and Cadet L. H. Scott were assigned to the trip. As they were meeting right after the lynching, the Coroner and Sheriff Boyes might have heard some of the otherwise well-disciplined (and well-armed) vigilantes had to be talked out of shooting up the corpses as they swung at the end of ropes. City Recorder C. N. Collins has already started action so far as his court is concerned by inflicting jail sentences for drunkenness. With him were the Healdsburg visitors, or at least Young and McMinn; Lattins whereabouts were not mentioned, although the letter to Gaye LeBaron claimed he gave the keys to the mob, which cant be literally true. It did not, of course, go away. Of note, in 1935, deputies watched 200 vigilantes tar and feather communist reds. During the 1960s, having to deal militantly with labor organizers, hippies and antiwar demonstrators made the county a busy place to work for deputies. Wine lovers aren't the only ones that get to have fun in Santa Rosa. The company has a lease of the Hiatt garage, on West street and the machinery is being installed this week. Dec. 12. A NUMBER OF CITIZENS MAKE AFFIDAVIT THE VICTIM OF THE VIGILANTES WAS A DESPERADOTHE MURDER OF ROWLAND SHOWN TO HATE BEEN A COLD-BLOODED ACT. But the locust tree survived and flowered in the spring, casting its shade over the G.A.R. The places that harbor such criminals must be closed up, and kept closed. There was no serious investigation by local authorities and the state did not intervene, although Governor Stephens grumbled there had better be some Sonoma County prosecutions. 6. Those mysteries join a substantial list of what-if scenarios where something could have easily gone awry and many men from Healdsburg could have ended up arrested or even dead. veterans monument. The Vatican also celebrates this festivity on August 23rd. Open in Google Maps . Sheriff Petray is buried at Oak Mound Cemetary in Healdsburg. $500 in a couple of days (the equivalent to two months wages). The Standard Machine Works, the new company formed by Don Patteson and L. B. Both bodies of course have been embalmed. The boys were searched and more jewelry and silver coins were found on them. At trial, a jury of his peers let Petray off after deliberating for three minutes, according to local historian Jeff Elliot, who dives well and deep into contemporaneous accounts of the 1920 lynching in his online narrative,There Will Be Prices Paid. Conspicuous among the crowds were many women and children, CASSASSA ARRESTED He circled far above the city, going to a height of about eight thousand feet, and then returning by means of nose dives, glides and apparently end-over-end maneuvers, to within a few hundred feet of the earth. It was even planned where each car was to park. Ranchers thronged through the streets as if the event were one of carnival nature. Australia, today was informed by cable from the Folsom authorities that her son, George Barron, alias Boyd, one of the three gangsters lynched here December 10 for the killing of Sheriff James A. Petray and Detectives Miles Jackson and Lester Dorman of San Francisco, had died in Santa Rosa.. Even if he was the Captain he probably would have needed help assembling his militia, as he mostly had been away for three years (before being drafted, Fred was working in Arizona). AskUs@pensacolastate.edu A long line waited patiently for the reopening, San Francisco Chronicle, December 11 1920. But is there any evidence that universities and/or medical schools around 1920 were robbing graves in the name of science, pseudo or otherwise? The three men, Terry Fitts, George Boyd, and Charles Val It is said that the man cleared up $500 in the transaction. Captain Matheson Makes Inquiry and Finds Members Were on Duty. Snyder said there is no California lawexemptinga reporter from the duty to report knowledge of a crime to law enforcement. He easily made the landing at the Luce field, and was given a glad welcome home by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom O. Ninety-five percent of the people were in favor after it happened., In a February 2015 column, LeBaron remarked on, the paternalism that ruled in the 19thand 20thcenturies Obviously, the system wasnt perfect. The region is home to about 500,000 residents, many of whom work in unincorporated rural areas or small towns north, east and west of the city. She is 70 years of age and is near collapse. It is understood that they sought to have the burial in the Fitts family plot in Odd Fellows cemetery here, but that the management of the cemetery refused to permit it, claiming that such action was justified by their rules and regulations. Coroner Frank S. Phillips is in receipt of a letter from J. J. Smith, warden of Folsom penitentiary stating that Mrs. Elizabeth Barron, mother of George Boyd, alias Geo. But LeBaron and the owners of thePress Democratwere not protecting a whistleblower producing incriminating evidence of governmental wrongdoings. The company will make a specialty of lathe work of every description, and will be equipped to make any part of an automobile or tractor. It takes several men to drag a man up. The 2010 census reported a population of 167,815. Several of these masks were brought to Santa Rosa by a member of the Democrat staff, and are now on exhibition at this office. By iseko. In March of 2021, President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, making lynching a federal hate crime. A few hours past dawn in the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery, John Dennison stood beneath a cluster of oak trees with the rest of the Tombstone Trio fellow. Shouts of n-word, images of lynchings interrupt Sonoma County's virtual meeting on homelessness Alejandro Serrano July 13, 2020 Updated: July 13, 2020 6:35 p.m. It will not replace the existing VA clinic at 3841 Brickway Blvd. A local historian has created a spreadsheet of 115 deaths attributed to Sonoma County police forces since 1989. What are some spooky and fun things to do around Halloween time? And it took him quite a while to asphyxiate, by not breaking his neck, he said. 2,718 reviews. You picked up the Press Democrat on the doorstep planning to scan the ads for Christmas presents, but the astonishing headline dampened any enthusiasm for shopping. Fred jumped from the seat of the plane as soon as it fell to the ground, and did not receive a scratch. The . (She supposedly slept through all the yelling and other commotion at the jail while they were being hauled away by the vigilantes.). After a day and night in which the lynching tree in Rural cemetery was unguarded, and curiosity seekers removed most of the bark and many of the smaller limbs, the caretaker of the cemetery stationed a guard over it, and has stopped further abuse of the tree at the hands of souvenir seekers. The Santa Rosa Lynching. But if you stay, from now on, were all one. Barney repeated much the same thing in his 1989 interview, except changing the speech to end with, after tonight, weve got an active war.. In 1854, vigilantes led by pioneer James Bennet hanged a man named Ritchie for supposedly rustling mules. The jail deputies gave them the cell keys without any resistance, They was as much in favor of it being done as we were, he said. Our hearts are still broken, Anderson-Steele said of the lynchings. By 1949, the ropey loops had been moved to the Freemasons Scottish Rite Temple. There was almost a romantic air about this tree, because the retribution was carried out by an orderly mob five days after the murder of the there [sic] peace officers. In early March, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors honored retiringPress Democratreporter Gaye LeBaron for chronicling the people, culture and history of Sonoma County.. His eyes big as saucers, he was just froze., And now in the transcript of the tape comes this curious passage: Everything was so well organized, everything went smooth the first group to go in got the keys from the sheriff, the acting sheriff, Erick Gelhaus.. There have been various rumors relative to the final disposal of the bodies of the gangsters. Young recognised them when they hailed him and brought them to the county jail without warning of his intention. The motor cars he sells you at his Healdsburg auto shop have got the gears that run for years before they stall and stop. This was on the streets more than two hours before any other newspaper appeared, with only an abridged story and many of the details incorrect. Pieces of the hanging ropes and chunks of the tree were passed down as family heirlooms. An NAACP deposition of the lynching said Johnson had recently returned from military service in Germany. Today, the nooses reside at the Museum of Sonoma County. In the Dec. 1, 1985Press Democrat, LeBaron regaled readers with a story about three murder suspects who were hustled out of the Santa Rosa jail around midnight and hanged in a cemetery on Dec. 10, 1920. San Francisco.Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson last Saturday mailed a letter to G. W. Hoyle, District Attorney of Sonoma county, under the direction of chief of Police O'Brien, in which he sets forth that an investigation has been made and that he has established that no members of . Barnard bragged about terrorizing Valento, who was a dark-skinned man of Latino descent, saying, he just reared back against the bars and on the side. One of her most oft-repeated stories revolves around the 1920 lynching in Santa Rosa of three prisoners by a vigilante force of cops and citizens. Phillips spent nearly an hour at the jail with the sheriff (probably joined by Welti) prior to heading for the cemetery. Announcement was previously made that Charles Valentos body had been sent to San Francisco, it having been claimed by the dead mans mother. The term lynch law refers to a self-constituted court that imposes sentence on a person without due process of law. News reports from the time are sketchy and often contradictory, and there are numerous reports and theories on what . Soon after the news was telephoned to San Francisco, of the lynching in Santa Rosa, machines carrying San Francisco newspaper men, were soon on their way to the scene. And we still need to face that horrible history, no matter how horrible and traumatic it is. Evans was 30 years old and from Port St. Joe when he was charged with robbing a filling station, highway robbery and assaulting a 12-year-old white boy. His wartime assignment was as a flight instructor in Southern California. When I pointed this out to Lynn Prime, the curator of the LeBaron Collection at Sonoma State, she was unable to explain the coincidence. All that remained was to slip the ropes around their necks and hoist them up. LeBaron says that she took notes for her original story about the anonymous vigilante without tape recording him, so as not to spook him. But four years later, on Aug. 29, 1989, she tape recorded a repeat interview with the now-90-year-old vigilante in Healdsburg. This edition was rushed to every town in the county, and in each and every instance all the papers sent out by our distributors were sold, and there was demand for more. So Coroner Phillips worries that Boyd and Fitts might fall into the hands of some medical college were probably unfounded, but we can say that only by viewing history with our perfect 20/20 hindsight. Bianchi Boy and Companion, Each 14 Years of Age, Arrested Once More; Pockets Are Found Full of Money and Jewelry. B. Within half an hour after the lynching occurred, The Press Democrat had two photographers on the scene, and shortly afterwards Ernest Ridley with a finished photograph of the three men was making fast time in a high-powered car to Sausalito, where a powerful launch was waiting to convey him across the bay to Meiggs wharf, the nearest point. This is the seventh chapter in the series on the 1920 lynchings in Santa Rosa, " From there about twenty would head for the jail where they took their assigned positions some as armed guards on the street, others in teams of three to tie up each of the gangsters and pack him out of the jail to a waiting car, carried by the shoulders, waist and feet. - Press Democrat, December 8 1920 . They made a terrible racket, shattering the early morning peace by honking horns and cranking sirens as the caravan entered Healdsburg and rounded the Plaza. This piece first appeared in The Bohemian. There was the conspiracy by the Healdsburg vigilantes to snatch the gangsters and lynch them, which they carried out with military precision and perhaps most remarkably, maintained the discipline to keep completely quiet about it afterwards. Coroner Phillips also had another reason to keep the location secret: He told the Call he wanted to make sure they did not fall into the hands of some medical college. His concern wasnt that the Fitts sisters and Boyds mom would sell their cadavers to Stanford Medical School most likely it would be pseudoscience enthusiasts hiring bodysnatchers. Ranchers thronged through the streets as if the event were one of carnival nature.. Harry Patteson later became a five-term sheriff (1934-1958) as well as the Healdsburg Police Chief twice. Hoboes, yeggs, idlers and hangers-on about the city are to be arrested and given the stiffest sentence that the law will allow, said Chief Matthews Tuesday. Below are thumbnail introductions to three of them, plus another man who we know was among the vigilantes. Maynard was the subject of a Velvet Hammer profile, which was considered something of a badge of honor in the county. Four separate editions were issued, each replete with sensational details valuable to our readers. The letter to LeBaron about Ray Lattin stated there was no question he was at the jail that night specifically for his part in the operation.. The earliest lynching case being investigated took place in 1884. He narrowly lost an election for Cloverdale constable in 1918 but was appointed a reserve deputy sheriff for the town, which gave him a badge. It is also said that relatives of Fitts intended to claim his body and give it interment. By all odds the most sensational event that ever took place in the history of the county, it was treated by this newspaper accordingly. He opined, however, that the law would likely shield a reporter from producing evidence of a crimeif subpoenaed by law enforcement. 2022. (UPDATE: Ray has now published his findings and it can be revealed the gravesite is at Moke 234.). Founded in 1833 by Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo and named for St. Rose of Lima, it developed as a processing-shipping centre for agricultural produce of the Sonoma Valley. Maynard almost seemed like a politician with his high level of civic involvement and also acted (and seemed to be expected to act) like a law enforcement officer. One of the most notorious Santa Rosa County lynchings was the March 14, 1919, murder of military veteran Bud Johnson. Because of its shade its site was picked for the G. A. R. monument to unknown dead, where exercises are annually held on Memorial Day. Mather Field Ship Brings Picture of Lynching. The coroner stated that he feels that he is in a measure responsible for the safe keeping of the bodies until such time as they are interred and he does not propose to have the bodies the object of morbid curiosity or perhaps fall into the hands of some medical college. Members of the mob would pull him up and then let him down again and again, according to the NAACP deposition. Andnotcoincidentally, the rise in police killings mirrors the rise of the Latinx population, according to investigations by federal and local agencies. This would seem to reference the report that the party came from San Francisco and may have stopped in Petaluma for something to eat or for gasoline and oil for cars, giving rise to the report. The PD printed an item on this pilots derring-do flight but editor Ernest Finley, ever the churl, did not mention this was for his rival newspaper. Harvest Festivals, Pumpkin patches, mazes, hayrides, haunted house? It was said today that it might be shipped to Seattle, where it is understood that Boyds mother lives, but word is awaited from that city before final disposition of the body by local authorities. One of the most notorious Santa Rosa County lynchings was the March 14, 1919, murder of military veteran Bud Johnson. Is itethicalto not report it when you have evidence of a crime? "A statement advocating a violent act such as lynching is abhorrent . But because this is where we live now, my boyfriend The Urban Hotspot. Those who have long been suspected of breaking the law in various ways will he rounded up without delay, so that there can not be any possibility in future of the town, or anyone in it, harboring such desperate criminals as the three now in jail. The supposed reason why Lattin, Young and McMinn were there so late at night was to warn the sheriff that Healdsburg was pretty well stirred up, and there is going to be some trouble. Not long afterwards the office received a second phone call reporting that a suspicious group of men were gathering near the cemetery. Presumably he was deputized in other Smith posses as well. We Have Had Our Lesson; Shall We Profit by It? He crashed into a barn and destroyed the government flying machine but was unhurt. When the crew stormed the jail they brought along acetylene torches and the tanks to cut through the cell doors if they couldnt find the keys; the same Tribune item states welding was a special feature of the garage. In her book, Santa Rosa - A Nineteenth Century [Photo courtesy of Depot Park Museum] Town, historian Gaye LeBaron relates one of the first documented hangings to occur in Sonoma County. A great demonstration was made in Healdsburg by the returning lynchers. A great crowd of home folks was at the field to see him start. He will go here and in this county and adjacent territory in his car and will have his salesrooms in Healdsburg, and it will be well equipped. The late Sheriff Petray, killed by the San Francisco gangsters was a well-beloved Knight and extended the invitation to the grand lodge to hold their encampment in Santa Rosa at the 1920 meeting. With only himself and three deputies on hand, Sheriff Boyes asked McMinn and Lattin to go the cemetery and see if their leaders would speak with him. Then two more rings were noticed on the floor along with a pearl and opal pendant. Robinson has been handicapped in his work since the murder of Sheriff Petray. Newman asserted she had a letter from the G.A.R. The Standard Machine Works building was at 125 West street (now Healdsburg Avenue) and the vigilantes drilled in the garage section in back, where they did auto and tractor repair. SAN FRANCISCO POLICEMEN IN LYNCH PARTY, IS REPORT. There was also a chance that yahoos might decide a single lynching wasnt good enough and seek to mutilate the bodies. There wont be one word said. But there are contradictory reports on where he was from and the circumstances that led him to be killed by a mob, and even where he was actually killed. A crowd was assembled in front of The Press Democrat office all day long, reading the bulletins and extras posted on the plate glass windows and examining the mementos of the occasion that had been placed on display, while two people were kept busy at the telephone almost the entire day answering inquiries and giving out information relative to the sensational event with which the day had been ushered in. The Sacramento Bee sent an airplane from Sacramento to Santa Rosa yesterday to secure a photograph of the lynching scene. Here a taxicab was in waiting and Ridley with his photograph was rushed to the Call office, arriving there at 6:15 a. m. He waited there while two halftones were manufactured, one for the Call and the other for The Press Democrat. Takeaways were that the militarily disciplined lynch mob was organized by a Healdsburg businessman called the Captain, who was later elected county coroner. He is of interest because after Gaye LeBaron wrote her 1985 column about Barney Barnards confession, she received a letter stating Ray Lattin was also among the vigilantes and the stories he always told about the lynching matched the details provided by Barney (this letter can be found in the LeBaron archives at SSU). Considering an angry mob nearly breached the fortress-like county jail a few days earlier, its hard to imagine much of a defense could be made if a vengeance-seeking crowd suddenly stormed the Welti funeral parlor. 5 min read. We could have had 500 men, if wed wanted them, Barney told Gaye in 1985. An airplane was commissioned in Sacramento to fly here in poor visibility conditions to fetch their image. This was a bold strategy to gauge how well the sheriff was prepared to resist an attack on the jail; although the vigilantes were armed, all planning by the Captain showed he counted upon facing no serious resistance. (Complete article is transcribed in chapter seven), 15 MACHINES RUSH OFFICERS AVENGERS TO SANTA ROSA JAIL Gee Its Nice Your State is Blue, the War on Abortions Still Coming for You. Maynard Young had a new car showroom in the front of the Standard Machine Shop where he sold the Stephens Salient Six, a mid-priced touring car. Sacramento Paper Sends Airplane to Get Lynch Picture. She agreed to claim the body and it was driven to the city before nightfall. 112, s. 2022 mula sa Malacaang. It occurred in the spring of 1854 when a mule rustler by the name of Ritchie was accused of absconding with a band of mules. The rumors of San Francisco participation were widespread, and Coroner Frank Phillips of Sonoma County, while on his way from Petaluma to Santa Rosa before dawn, passed a cluster of fifteen cars on their way south. On all sides were heard the remarks, They got what was coming to them, and Good riddance and a saving of money for their trial. All seemed to join in unanimous approval of the ghastly procedure. Search over two million items. One director stated that the site for the Grand Army plot given that organization was selected on account of the presence of the shade the big locust tree would afford at similar exercises to those held on Decoration Day. Sonoma Co Sheriff Sheriff killed, 1920 In 1920, the gunning down of Sheriff Jim Petray and two San Francisco lawmen, followed by the public lynching of the three suspects, gave Santa Rosa a statewide reputation as being a tough, frontier town. Snyder mused, When a reporter stumbles across a crime, there is nothing keeping her from reporting it to law enforcement. This was likely when they all had a very earnest discussion about what might happen next their jobs were not over just because the gangsters were now dead. T' Timomy Bakw TTIew locust tree grown from the stump of the 1920 'Hanging Tree' in Rural Cemetery arking up the wrong tree . The Community Remembrance Project Coalition is a partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative of Montgomery, Alabama. Poppa who passed away 31 days before his son was lynched was buried in the family plot in the Odd Fellows cemetery just a short walk from the hangmans tree. II, page 81 bottom right.This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."Night view of three men hanging from a tree in Santa Rosa Cemetery. Petaluma Campus. Should Gentle Reader think our 20th century ancestors were above such barbarity, consider that when Bonnie and Clyde were killed in 1934 people rushed in to do exactly that, even trying to cut off Clydes trigger finger and, for some reason, his ear.1. He has been detailed as an Instructor at the San Diego aviation field. It was 1:15 in the morning when Dr. Phillips phone rang at his home in Petaluma. The body of Valento at the request of his aged mother, was taken to San Francisco on Friday and quietly buried in that city. During the 1920s and early 1930s he ran the prestigious Cummiskey vineyards and ranches near Hopland and Windsor. Small town papers in those days were like collective FaceBook pages, reporting every mundane detail of who was doing what; as a result we can roughly map out who Jim Petray socialized with, from hunting deer to attending events to participating in fraternal groups (Knights of Pythias, Elks, Masons, Woodmen, Native Sons). Planning for the clinic has taken several years and construction of the $12 million clinic began in 2020. A report current in Santa Rosa during the day, and printed in newspapers published outside of this city, said that the body of Terry Fitts was interred privately, with only a few persons knowing where it was placed. The lynching tree, as it became known all over the nation after the news of the hanging was broadcasted from Santa Rosa, was always a first attraction to visitors in Santa Rosa. The letters and reporter notes are archived at the Gaye LeBaron Collection housed at Sonoma State University. 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