He is in a measure responsible for the safe keeping of the bodies until such time as they are interred, the San Francisco Call reported after speaking with Phillips. Before he left Petaluma, Coroner Phillips phoned Frank Welti, the Deputy Coroner for Santa Rosa and ordered an ambulance to be waiting at the cemetery to transport the bodies. 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. The three men were Maynard Young, Ray Lattin and Joe McMinn.1, They were, of course, unmasked, and did not reveal that one of them and quite likely all three were members of the vigilante party. For the rest of Ernest Finleys life, not a word about it would reappear in his newspaper. Association Secretary Frank Welti resigned on the spot.2. As Barnard told LeBaron, besides all of the vigilantes being from the area we were all friends of Jim Petrays. In the 1989 interview he added, some of them was his close relatives. During the Sunday night riot Petray brothers Edward and Frank were inside the jail and vowing to kill the gangsters on the spot, so surely they were among the avengers along with Ray Lattin, Barney and his dad. Santa Rosa's stretch of Route 66 is forever memorialized in American film history in Steinbeck's epic novel, Grapes of Wrath with a memorable train scene, as a freight train steams over the Pecos River railroad bridge in the center of town. Captain Matheson Makes Inquiry and Finds Members Were on Duty. A great crowd of home folks was at the field to see him start. While not done under the banner of eugenics (usually), some of the anthropologists shared the same racist agendas, such as using head measurements to determine the exact degree of a living persons Indian-ness.4. The Chronicle reported, 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. The current position of SANTA ROSA is at East Mediterranean reported 1 min ago by AIS. The body was sent to the mother of the criminal, who is said to be under a physicians care. Its the coroners job to investigate when there are unusual circumstances and the good doctor was certainly kept busy in late 1920 looking into odd deaths in the previous few weeks four people were killed when their car or truck was hit by a train and a seven year-old boy was decapitated in an accident at the fairgrounds. The Riley family lived on Second street. According to LeBaron, Petray was a role model for the young people, an honest cop and an ideal family man. She failed to mention that Petray had himself spent three years on the lam, sought for the 1894 killing of an elderly man, whom he admitted to battering. Also incorporated were later comments by Clarence H. Barney Barnard, the only member of the vigilantes to talk about it. On his way home Mr. Young stopped at the country home of former Sheriff and Mrs. J. K. Smith at Knights Landing and found them comfortably installed in a nice home. Santa Rosa County / 1 hour ago. That of Boyd is still in the hands of the coroner and is safely hidden away somewhere in the county. AskUs@pensacolastate.edu Gov. 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. Freds father was long the towns mortician and when he died at the close of 1919, Fred inherited the funeral home and the job. The building is being rearranged to meet the needs of the company, and additional skylights have been built to afford abundant light. SAN FRANCISCO NEWSPAPER MEN ON SCENE . Other members of the board, however, were greatly surprised and stated that had they been approached they would not have consented to the destruction of the tree. Two oldtimers who had trekked through the morgue thought they recognized gangster George Boyd as a teenager named Riley who lived on Second Street at the turn of the century. A dozen automobiles, before daylight, circled the Plaza, tooting horns, blowing sirens and making a huge racket which woke up the town. The Santa Rosa Lynching. Petaluma Daily Morning Courier, December 17, 1920, Son Died, Grim Cable to Mother of Boyd, Lynched, Special Dispatch to The Call. By not mentioning those sticky points the town was shorn of any need to express shame or regret. If no claim is made on the body it will be buried in potters field. That Santa Rosa and Sonoma county be immediately cleaned of all undesirable characters was the edict issued by the sheriffs office and the chief ot police yesterday. An airplane was commissioned in Sacramento to fly here in poor visibility conditions to fetch their image. In one story from his book, which he says is typical, vigilantes in Santa Rosa lynched 3 men around midnight on December 10th, 1920. . (In 1920 the equipment was primitive and needed a skilled worker just a few weeks earlier a Santa Rosa welder suffered facial burns from an explosion.). He came to Jay, Florida, where he incurred his fathers debts. He resigned from the Army and moved back at the end of Feb. 1920, about nine months before the lynching took place. Inquiries at the local cemeteries brought the response that the bodies had not been interred in any of them, and it was also said that the bodies were not shipped from Santa Rosa by train on either railroad line here. Barnard eagerly helped with the hanging, You have to drag him off the ground, see. But now that it was over, everyone was glad of being rid of those troublesome gangsters. She has, however, written scores of newspaper columns and a book featuring tales about community-supported lynchings, typified as pioneers handing out rough frontier justice.. Press Democrat, December 10 1920 That would be particularly true in the village-sized community of Healdsburg, where Petray came from one of the prune-growing family dynasties of Alexander Valley. In 1876, the third lynching . 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. One of those horrendous murders happened less than a half-mile from the current Pensacola State College Milton campus, according to a PSC researcher. There is not a mention of the killing of 13-year-old Andy Lopez on Oct. 22, 2013 by Deputy Sheriff Erick Gelhaus. All that remained was to slip the ropes around their necks and hoist them up. When the news spread that the tree had been cut down crowds of people again visited the old cemetery and carried away fragments as souvenirs. He was confident enough in his crew that he stayed among those in the office with the sheriff. Erick Gelhaus is the name of the deputy who killed Andy Lopez. The tree, itself as if to give justification to the deed, burst through the shackles of the tradition which had decreed that a hangmans tree must die, and broke into new foliage early in the spring which followed the lynching. There never was any such list, according to Gaye LeBaron and Lynn Prime, curator of the LeBaron special collection at SSU. Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States. Barnard said the decision to raid the county jail and lynch the gangsters was made the same day that Sheriff James A. Petray was killed. You will find antiques, unique shops, coffee houses, and restaurants. So now we come back to our starting place: Who were the vigilantes, and who was the Captain? They were in and out of the jail with their prisoners in less than ten minutes. 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. Santa Rosa is going to be known as an unsafe place for criminals. A photograph, festooned with pieces of the nooses, was the centerpiece of a display in the Sonoma County Sheriffs Office created shortly after the lynching, according to historical newspaper reports. Patteson is universally known in this section, and his selection will meet with popular approval. 5. Since then it has been visited by thousands of tourists who had heard of the revenge meted out to the three men, said to have been connected with the outrages ol the Howard street gang in San Francisco. After the three gangsters were hung there were still loose threads to address and knots to untangle. But it seemed to work for as long as the county and towns were run by community leaders who were, in general, well respected and well educated by the standard of the times. How revealing, though, this was a top concern of his at the time. RPPC postcard AZO back. Sight-seeing Pythians, Wednesday, to the number of 200 or more, stormed the Sonoma county Jail, overwhelmed Douglas M. Bills, undersheriff, and almost broke into the barred section at the rear, so enamored were they with the beauty of the building. For inquiries regarding Title IX and the Colleges nondiscrimination policies, contact the Executive Director, Institutional Equity and Student Conduct at (850) 484-1759, Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd., Pensacola, Florida 32504. Children decorated school auditoriums with colorful bunting before performing holiday pageants. The Press Democrat, which regularly ran glance at the past type nostalgia columns, never mentioned the lynching in years to come. Through both the brilliant planning and great good luck, everything went off perfectly. RAY LATTIN had no apparent connection to the Standard Machine Shop or the Pattesons aside from being another Alexander Valley native but the family was close friends with the Petrays. (Complete article is transcribed in chapter seven), 15 MACHINES RUSH OFFICERS AVENGERS TO SANTA ROSA JAIL Whether anyone was able to find her or not is unknown, but by the end of the day it was decided Boyd was to be buried here somewhere. As he was Sonoma County Coroner, this was not terribly unusual; people inconveniently die at all hours. In May 2000, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigated Sonoma County, reporting, The committee is appalled at the number of deadly incidents, justified or not, that have occurred within 25 months. (She supposedly slept through all the yelling and other commotion at the jail while they were being hauled away by the vigilantes.). View sold price and similar items: Santa Rosa Howard Street Gang Lynching: Boyd, Fritts and Valento RPPC Postcard from Regency Antique Books on December 6, 0122 10:00 AM MST. City of Santa Rosa records, including emails, are subject to the California Public Records Act. Whenever they appear, they must be told to move on, and without a moments delay. He therefore refused to give the Call any information on the subject and does not see why it was sought at this time. Presumably he was deputized in other Smith posses as well. The date is confirmed by entries in the funeral homes receipt book. It was a shocking affair, and created more feeling than has previously been manifested in Sonoma county for a long time. Asked by Gaye LeBaron in 1989 if he was nervous, Barney replied, No, we felt relaxed because I went right by Boyesand two of the, oh, the Captain was there when I went by [unintelligible] and they were just as calm as if nothing was happening.. SISTERS PLEA SAVES FITTS FACE FROM MORGUE EXPOSURE. 1. In the Dec. 1, 1985 Press 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. Around 3AM Phillips and Welti lowered the bodies to the ground and loaded them into the ambulance wagon. Snyder suggested that theNew York Timeswasnotethically compelled to volunteer Daniel Ellsbergs name to the FBI when he gave reporters top secret files purloined from the RAND Corporation, known as the Pentagon Papers. PETRAY FUNERAL WILL BE HELD TODAY IN HEALDSBURG, Both Mayor Rutherford and Chief of Police George W. Mathews announced yesterday that outlawry and flouting of the law must come to an end in Santa Rosa. They went along but once inside, one of the boys poked a hole in his trousers pocket and a gold ring fell out as they were walking down a corridor. Mosley is an associate professor in PSCs History, Language and Social Sciences Department. The number of wounds varied between 7-16, depending on who was telling the story. It is also definitely known by the Petaluma information sent here that there were Healdsburg people in the party. The two hopped off on Mather Field at 1:22 p. m. and arrived at Santa Rosa at 2:30 p. m. after encountering a heavy fog at intervals. If you are confessing to a crime, we are obligated to report it. But, they chose instead to commercialize the sensational confession, and county law enforcers did nothing in response after the story was published. Mr. Patteson is the son of the late Supervisor Patteson. On that night Sunday, Dec. 5 a mob of up to 3,000 had attacked the jail to seize them but the sheriff and deputies, reinforced by the Santa Rosa police and fire departments, were able to repel the rioters. Text written under photo: "Hanging to tree in Cemetery Santa Rosa 3 men lynched by mob for killing Detectives Miles Jackson, Lester Dorman and Sheriff [James A . Santa Rosa Republican as reprinted in the Sacramento Bee, December 10, 1920. IOLEROs report for 2021 recommends that the Sheriff should consider adopting a policy disavowing white supremacy and extremism and prohibiting employee speech and association that promotes racist or extremist ideology.. Charles Schulz was a man destined to create comic strips and animated cartoons and the Charles Schulz Museum uncovers. According to research by Tuskegee University, there were 1,297 lynchings of white people and 3,446 lynchings of African Americans. FITTS BURIED B. gang came to Santa Rosa; Image / Santa Rosa, 1920: S.F. Fitts will be buried by the family, but not in the family plot. The suspects had kidnapped and brutally attacked two girls in San Francisco and had been tracked to Santa Rosa. [A version of this story appeared in the SF Chronicle Dec. 19 under the headline, BODIES OF TWO THUGS TAKEN FROM MORGUE]. We now know that Coroner Phillips had lied to the reporter. [End of transcript] We exonerate the sheriff and his deputies from any blame therewith. Mr. Young is an active business man and before he entered into the auto game with the Stephens car his friends knew that he must have satisfied himself perfectly as to the merits of the machine before taking it up and recommending it to his friends. The mob that took from the Sonoma County jail the trio of gangsters arrested Sunday after the murder of three peace officers was drawn from a wide area of the north of bay region, as well as San Francisco. Members of the mob would pull him up and then let him down again and again, according to the NAACP deposition. 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. Because this was not an actual trial there was no cross-examination, so Sheriff Boyes wasnt asked why he didnt call the Santa Rosa police chief after he knew the vigilantes were coming, or why he left the front door to the jail unlocked. (When told their brothers body was to be put on display along with the others they requested his face be covered with a cloth, which Welti did.) Other civic duties included being on the executive committee of the county Board of Trade and after Petray was murdered he served as treasurer of the Petray Memorial Committee. And, as if still proud, again this year it threw out new green leaves, and was in the full flower of spring bloom when laid low by the ax. Service. B. Listening to the hissy tape, the name is unclear, but it was probably jail house. Perhaps the transcriber had a sense of the uncanny. And now that the community has had its lesson, shall we profit by it, or merely go along in the same old way? The Standard Machine Works, the new company formed by Don Patteson and L. B. Phillips said nothing further about the graves and was never confronted about why he kept it secret. on the back---it is an AZO card. Nor did he associate with anyone in law enforcement or their offices. Each man knew his role and was expected to act without supervision. 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). There was also a chance that yahoos might decide a single lynching wasnt good enough and seek to mutilate the bodies. Maynard Young, who a short time since disposed of his ranch interests in Alexander valley and moved into Heaidsburg to reside is now the agent in this section of the state for the Stephens Salient Six car, one of the classiest of automobiles and a good seller. An NAACP deposition of the lynching said Johnson had recently returned from military service in Germany. In early March, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors honored retiringPress Democratreporter Gaye LeBaron for chronicling the people, culture and history of Sonoma County.. News reports from the time are sketchy and often contradictory, and there are numerous reports and theories on what . Four separate editions were issued, each replete with sensational details valuable to our readers. I handled the controls some, says Fred. St. Francis Winery and Vineyards. LeBaron: Did your parents know you went? Between memberships in churches, fraternal groups like the Elks and extended families through marriage, probably everyone in the county was no more than two degrees of separation from a man with a badge. First Airplane to Visit This City, Piloted by Local Man. The committee found a highly polarized and charged atmosphere in respect to community-police relations., In 2018, the newly-formed Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach (IOLERO) reported that the Sheriffs work force was 78 % self-described white. It is now about 72 % white, with a sudden influx of Latinx employees. City Recorder C. N. Collins has already started action so far as his court is concerned by inflicting jail sentences for drunkenness. Maynard Young opened another auto dealership in Santa Rosa at Third and Main streets in 1921 (his partner was the other draft board member) but his interests turned to oil. And that is generally believed to be a social good as it protects the identity of whistleblowers and confidential sources and witnesses to crimes and misbehaviors by governments and corporations. We could have had 500 men, if wed wanted them, Barney told Gaye in 1985. This is a list of lynching victims in the United States. This was the last lynching to take place in Sonoma County. Nobody spoke against it. Reviews on Cemetery in Santa Rosa, CA - Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery, Santa Rosa Memorial Park, Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Chapel Of The Chimes Cem/Crema, Daniels Chapel of the Roses Funeral Home and Crematory, Windsor Healdsburg Mortuary & Crematory, Valley Memorial Park, Pleasant Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary, Shiloh District Cemetery, Sebastopol Memorial Lawn Cemetery HARRY PATTESON was a younger brother of Don. When a forest fire started near Annapolis also in 1918, Jim Petray, acting as deputy fire warden for the district, had Ray organize and supervise the firefighters. Orders to officers have already been issued to arrest every person in the city or vicinity of questionable occupation or who is found loitering around any of the saloons or wineries of the city or county. But the fellow who got it all organized, the Captain would only take 30. he wanted everybody to have an assignment and didnt want anybody who was going to get trigger happy and blow it all.. In America, whiteness describes a social caste, not skin color. The traffic became so heavy, with machines passing alone the road from both directions, that it was necessary to call on the traffic police for regulation, with the result that an officer was stationed at each end of the road to maintain order. He was the boss of the countys motor pool in the mid-1910s which could be why he was spotted driving places with Sheriff Smith. Then there was the plan by Santa Rosa authorities to conceal what happened to the bodies out of concern for grave robbers. The Call of the 26th publishes the following further testimony in this case. Both Santa Rosa newspapers published four extras on Dec. 10 with the PD claiming 11,000 papers were sold and the Republican saying their total was exactly 23,416. Conspicuous among the crowds were many women and children, CASSASSA ARRESTED He has a large family, including grandchildren, and it is said his conduct in connection with the San Francisco gangsters has not met with the approval of his family, who it is declared have strenuously protested but to no avail, nearly breached the fortress-like county jail, archive of the American Eugenics Movement, plotted to ambush the San Francisco detectives, ROAD TO THE MALL: THE BIG BOOK OF RED FLAGS. The Standard Machine Works opened while he was away in the service so he never worked there; if he had been inside previously it would have been as a guy who walked in because he needed his magneto fixed or something. And so the blitzkrieg attack began, wrapping up under ten minutes later with the gangsters tied and gagged and being chauffeured to their doom. The Press Democrat scored a tremendous success yesterday in its handling of the big news growing out of the lynching of Boyd, Fitts and Valento, the San Francisco gangsters. The hotel is exceptionally clean, the staff are friendly and the breakfast is generous and delicious. (Name) died from being hanged from the neck by a lynching mob of unknown persons, who stormed the county jail, overpowering the peace officers and forcibly removing him for that purpose. The hanging ropes were hoisted over the limb of a locust tree as a caravan of car headlights illuminated the scene. (Even Johnsons military background is unclear; some reports state that he was a World War I veteran, yet he entered the military less than two months from wars end.). On that cold morning, 65 years prior, huge, bold, blackPress Democratheadlines had proclaimed,STATE IS FAIRLY WILD OVER GANG LYNCHING, ACCLAIM MEMBERS OF THE MOB TO BE HEROES, TWO VICTIMS CRY FOR MERCY, BOYD UTTERS GROAN. B. B. There were over a hundred of these little poems in the Press Democrat, each three stanzas of charmingly awful doggerel, to wit: If you accept the echoed word of Mr. Maynard Young; youre sure to bite, the car is right, you simply cant be stung.). Snyder said there is no California lawexemptinga reporter from the duty to report knowledge of a crime to law enforcement. 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. Public Safety Training Center. A great demonstration was made in Healdsburg by the returning lynchers. Since 1980, the California Constitution has shielded journalists who are subpoenaed by law enforcement to turn over unpublished information. While most lynchings involved hangings, lynchings include any premediated extrajudicial killing by a group. You dropped a ring there, didnt you? Maynard was asked. Fred planned to leave Healdsburg early Monday morning on his return trip to the aviation field at Riverside. Other partners in the local coalition are the LEAP Committee of the Milton City Council; Milton First United Methodist Church Youth Group; Mt. Mrs. Newman was not present at the meeting. The earliest lynching case being investigated took place in 1884. REPUBLICANS WITH LYNCH STORY HAVE BIG SALE IN S. F. The first word of the summary action taken by the men who hanged Fitts, Boyd and Valento yesterday was sent out by the Santa Rosa Republican which tipped off the majority of the San Francisco papers and which kept them supplied with the news of developments. In the months that followed it became a popular tourist attraction and probably the top one in Santa Rosa. SUBMIT ILLICIT DISCHARGE REPORT . He unfortunately mentioned this to a Press Democrat reporter when he arrived at the county jail; the newspaper took it as evidence that the lynching party came from San Francisco and most papers in the city chased that angle for days, although it was already pretty clear the vigilantes came from Healdsburg or points north. In March of 2021, President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, making lynching a federal hate crime. The gruesome work finished, the Healdsburg vigilantes drove home and began leaning on their car horns. The Captain finished by telling the men to meet back at the same building. Mrs. Newman declared her action in ordering the tree cut down had been taken in response to many pleas from G. A. R. veterans and others, who declared it inappropriate that a hangmans tree should grow in the G. A. R. plot. Petray and Jewett started a little pursuit themselves, with the result that in about the time it takes a watch to tick, they had the two celebrators safely tucked away in the back seat of Youngs machine. Our hearts are still broken, Anderson-Steele said of the lynchings. The rumors arose over the secrecy surrounding the recording of the 1989 interview, which was kept in the safe of the Local History room at the Sonoma County Library until his death, per a promise of anonymity. 5 min read. All of those wordy introductions were necessary to provide context as to what happened at about 11:15 on the night of December 9, 1920, when three men from Healdsburg rang the doorbell at the county jail (heres a direct link to that part of the story to jog your memory). Inman Family Wines. In less than two hours he was on his way home, bearing the finished cut, and the first and only picture of the lynching to be printed here in any newspaper came out in the noon edition of The Press Democrat, making a big sensation. Around midnight on the night of June 20, 1867, Byrd Brumfield used his pocket knife to slash John Strong to death at Griffin's Saloon. That Boyd might be an alias of the slayer developed yesterday when the crowd were passing through the morgue. Its estimated 2019 population was 178,127. Coalition members will collect soil from each identified lynching site that will eventually be displayed at The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration in Montgomery. Sheriff Petray is buried at Oak Mound Cemetary in Healdsburg. This was done at the request of relatives. Saint Rose of Lima was canonized by Pope Clement on August 30th 1671. But The People Are More Than Just Winos. He will retain his residence in Healdsburg while serving on the sheriffs force. A previous chapter, VENGEANCE FOR SUNNY JIM covered events of just that night as reported at the time by first-hand witnesses. His presence in Sonoma County began fading when the auto dealership closed in 1925 and was all but forgotten by the time he moved to Los Angeles and became an oil broker. 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 . 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. Inequality is Weakening Social Security. Ray told audiences the dog was 34 collie and one part wolf. Phillips spent nearly an hour at the jail with the sheriff (probably joined by Welti) prior to heading for the cemetery. Making national news, the cemetery was the site of a famous lynching in 1920. This was the last lynching to take place in Sonoma County. 5743 Skylane Boulevard Windsor, CA 95492-9787 (707) 837-8843. 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. 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. During the operation the sheriff was moved to the rear office in the cellblock, watched over by five guards. From the Argus-Courier: While the sisters were with Welti brainstorming about Plan B, obstacles also arose about what to do with George Boyds corpse. 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