The Riley family lived on Second street. The 2010 census reported a population of 167,815. Fred planned to leave Healdsburg early Monday morning on his return trip to the aviation field at Riverside. But Phillips had never received a call like this one: He was told there were three men hanging from a tree in the old Santa Rosa cemetery and nobody knew who killed them. Today we associate eugenics mostly with racism Nazi-ish claims that whites (and usually some very specific European flavor) were by birthright the bestest people ever made and everyone else should just give up and admit they were inferior. law enforcement officers shot and killed eight citizens Demographically, Sonoma County is undergoing dramatic change which affects its agrarian, small town atmosphere. But no matter; the jury stuck to its simple mission of determining the causes of death for the officers and the lynched men. 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. As he drove to Santa Rosa he passed around a dozen cars on the highway headed south, which seemed unusual for that time of night. HANGMANS TREE REMOVAL PRAISED BY CLUBWOMEN AND OPPOSED BY CEMETERY BOARD. 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. In addition to this wide variety of events, the Doyle Library, the Art Gallery, and the Jesse Peter Museum are all open to the public. This collection, which is on display in the sheriffs office, includes a large photograph of the three hanging to the tree; the gun which fired the fatal shots, empty cartridges, the hangmens knots cut from the ropes, and other articles. Several of these masks were brought to Santa Rosa by a member of the Democrat staff, and are now on exhibition at this office. Word to this effect was received by Coroner Frank Phillips. Casassa died in 1923 before his case went to trial, but at the time of his arrest the Press Democrat commented. Mather Field Ship Brings Picture of Lynching. 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. Ray told audiences the dog was 34 collie and one part wolf. Within days, a remarkable confession by an octogenarian member of the lynching vigilantes led to a series of ethical missteps, during which LeBaron and her editors and publishers may have become accomplices after the fact to the crime of murder, according to California statutes and an attorney at a journalism ethics organization. When I pointed this out to Lynn Prime, the curator of the LeBaron Collection at Sonoma State, she was unable to explain the coincidence. But within a minute or two from the moment that the motors started at the upper end of the field to give the plane its momentum to leave the ground at the south side and soar into the air, the big piece of mechanism was a mass of wreckage just across the street from the field. 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.. Nice communities dont try to batter down the jailhouse door or parade by the thousands through a morgue. Santa Rosa County / 1 hour ago. Well count noses [and see] if anyones missing. If detained, he told them just dont say a lot, answer simple questions, but dont mention any one of the rest of us and well come back and get you (1989 interview). Dec. 12. When the first chapter in this series was posted several people immediately contacted me via social media and email asking about a list containing the names of all the vigilantes. People in the crowd suggested Johnson be accused of assaulting a white woman to cover up their treatment of the man. 112, s. 2022 mula sa Malacaang. Its still our history. The whereabouts of his grave remains unknown. The hotel is exceptionally clean, the staff are friendly and the breakfast is generous and delicious. By 1949, the ropey loops had been moved to the Freemasons Scottish Rite Temple. of hard-core sociopaths like Boyd and Fitts surely would offer proof of their crackpot theories. The white tablecloth service, handsome wooden bar, and rose-heavy gardens add enchantment to the expected array of pastas and meat dishes sourced from all corners of Italy. (Note to genealogists: If researching someone who lived around here in 1921-1922, hope they were mentioned in The Velvet Hammer by A. It now becomes my duty as district attorney to conduct an investigation to determine, if possible, who are responsible for this lawless act.. Maynard Young, who returned from a visit to his Colusa County ranch on Friday night, was here on business Saturday. Five days after the killings, on December 10, 1920, a group of about 30 masked vigilantes took the suspects from the jail and hanged them from a locust tree in the old Rural Cemetary on Franklin Avenue in Santa Rosa. When the undertakers closed for noon lunch the crowd patiently waited for them to reopen at 2 oclock. Community coalitions like this are springing up all over the country, Mosley said. 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. 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. This was no bitter, hotblooded revenge. It did not, of course, go away. We Have Had Our Lesson; Shall We Profit by It? 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). LeBaron did not print the identity of the confessed killer, who, because there is no statute of limitations on murder, was liable to be arrested for the triple homicide. Listening to the hissy tape, the name is unclear, but it was probably jail house. Perhaps the transcriber had a sense of the uncanny. 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. What emerges is that he and his family seemed to spend time with others who likewise came from Alexander Valley. Within minutes, the hapless trio were trucked to the cemetery. The wreck has been visited by hundreds of sightseers, MAYNARD YOUNG HAS THE AGENCY FOR SALIENT SIX. The company has a lease of the Hiatt garage, on West street and the machinery is being installed this week. Type image Format Photographs. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 21. If no claim is made on the body it will be buried in potters field. He resigned from the Army and moved back at the end of Feb. 1920, about nine months before the lynching took place. Maynard Young Arranges Special Exhibit Space for North End of Sonoma County. Is hiding a crime a crime? Young, and by his wife, who had come to Healdsburg to be present when he arrived. 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. It was a little before twilight when the whirring of the engines of Freds airplane told of his coming. Will California Save the Iconic Joshua Tree? dont forget the skulls!) In the previous twelve days Sonoma County had endured nearly constant rain, including a torrential downpour 48 hours earlier that left downtown streets impassable. HARRY PATTESON was a younger brother of Don. 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. Sheriff James Petray, Sergeant Jackson of the San Francisco Police Department and Officer Lester Dorman of the San Francisco Police Department were shot and killed as they attempted to arrest three suspects in their home. He knew Sheriffs Petray and Smith personally. Fun story #1: Maynard was driving back from Petaluma with Sheriff Petray and a deputy in 1920 when they spotted two men arguing by the side of the road. His wartime assignment was as a flight instructor in Southern California. Harvest Festivals, Pumpkin patches, mazes, hayrides, haunted house? 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. He leased 8,000 acres near Willits and attracted many local investors and when that failed tried drilling near Eureka. 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. . A copy of the photograph of the lynching taken at the direction of The Press Democrat early Friday morning was made into post cards by an enterprising man in San Francisco under an alleged copyright, and thousands disposed of before the police ordered the sale stopped. The tree in question, a towering locust, was planted many years ago. Thompson was soon captured by a posse of men and the Santa Rosa County Sheriff and taken back to jail in Milton, later being transferred to Pensacola amid concerns a lynch mob was forming. It is also definitely known by the Petaluma information sent here that there were Healdsburg people in the party. Today, the nooses reside at the Museum of Sonoma County. He crashed into a barn and destroyed the government flying machine but was unhurt. One of the first to suggest such a subscription. 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. The group held its first meeting in January. 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. By not mentioning those sticky points the town was shorn of any need to express shame or regret. Since then, every August 30th the people of Lima pay tribute to the patron saint of the city: Santa Rosa de Lima. Boyd admitted to the officers that he had a sister living in this city many years ago by the name of Riley and that he had visited her several times. While most lynchings involved hangings, lynchings include any premediated extrajudicial killing by a group. In 2020, Santa Rosa, CA had a population of 178k people with a median age of 39.6 and a median household income of $80,472. (She supposedly slept through all the yelling and other commotion at the jail while they were being hauled away by the vigilantes.). Around 3AM Phillips and Welti lowered the bodies to the ground and loaded them into the ambulance wagon. DEC. 10 1920 SANTA ROSA CAL. He was elected County Coroner from 1926 to 1940 when he retired because of ill health. And now that the community has had its lesson, shall we profit by it, or merely go along in the same old way? In the petition another sister, Mrs. Cecil Riley of Santa Rosa, joined, and Fitts face was covered while a crowd of 3000, including women with babies in arms, viewed his body and those of George Boyd and Charles Valento. The identity of the Captain and (most) of the vigilantes will never be known for certain. The arrest comes as a direct result of the harboring of Terry Fitts, Charles Valento and Geo. Mrs. Newman was not present at the meeting. Nevertheless, you still put on a hat and went downtown to gawk at the corpses lying on marble slabs in the morgue. DON PATTESON was a machinist and co-owner of the Standard Machine Works. Petray was portrayed by LeBaron as enormously popular among the citizens of the county a category which seemingly did not include Blacks, Chinese, Mexicans and Indians or lower caste whites who may have held more jaundiced views. Lost in the newsprint was any real consideration of why it is not okay to cheer for lynchings. Though Santa Rosa is the main town in California's famous wine county, it's the nearby Napa Valley that gets a lot of the fame and fortune. Ail of the machinery of the company is of the latest design for auto and tractor repair. 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. SAN FRANCISCO NEWSPAPER MEN ON SCENE . There have been various rumors relative to the final disposal of the bodies of the gangsters. RPPC postcard AZO back. Lebarons retelling of the lynching of George Boyd, Terry Fitts and Spanish Charley Valento was not in the least bit sympathetic toward the dead men, who appear to have been rather vicious criminals, members of the Howard Street gang in San Francisco, who reportedly raped two women the day before Thanksgiving. TheBohemianreached out to attorney David Snyder of the First Amendment Coalition, a public interest organization created to protect and promote freedom of expression and the peoples right to know.. Gee Its Nice Your State is Blue, the War on Abortions Still Coming for You. So lets proceed here with the telling of what happened right after the Dec. 10 lynching before jumping ahead to discover what became of the hanging tree. Charles Valentos mother in San Francisco was quickly found, although the 70 year-old woman was reportedly unaware of her sons recent infamy. 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. 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. At the request of relatives and friends of Fitts and Boyd, Welti said, he refused to give out any information as to when the bodies were taken from the morgue or where they were buried. The two men left and returned almost immediately, telling Boyes someone would come there in half an hour. There are just four first-hand accounts of what happened at the jailhouse late on the night of November 9, 1920 and the lynching that followed at the Rural Cemetery. Shops were deserted and business was virtually suspended. The PSC African American Student Association is one of nine community groups involved with the Santa Rosa Community Remembrance Coalition, which features community, civic and faith-based groups. 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. Eugenicists believed such people tended to be insane or become criminals and usually needed to be locked up, forcibly sterilized and denied education. He therefore refused to give the Call any information on the subject and does not see why it was sought at this time. In the 1980 census, Sonoma County registered as 96% white people. 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. Barnard eagerly helped with the hanging, You have to drag him off the ground, see. Making less than 5,000 cases of pinot noir, chardonnay, and pinot gris, Inman Wines is a true 'boutique' winery. I helped pull on one of the ropes and it was quite a job to get him off the ground. He easily made the landing at the Luce field, and was given a glad welcome home by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom O. But Maynard Young has got a voice which does not waste a word. THE VELVET HAMMER Location and Resort The apartment complex is located in Costa Teguise 350m to the beach of Playa Bastian. Then two more rings were noticed on the floor along with a pearl and opal pendant. And it took him quite a while to asphyxiate, by not breaking his neck, he said. During WWI, Young was on the three-member draft board covering most of Sonoma county, a job he took very seriously; in 1918 he paid a condolence call on the family of a dead soldier. The following petition addressed to the editor of the Call explains itself, and accounts for the . 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. FEDERAL AGENTS SAY WINEMAKER IS ILLICIT DEALER, D. Cassassa, widely known wineman who resides on the Guerneville road west of town, was arrested Saturday night on a charge of selling liquor illegally. Presumably he was deputized in other Smith posses as well. Patuloy naman ang operasyon ng sumusunod na opisina sa Enero 18: They based their belief on resemblance Boyd had for a family by the name of Riley who lived here a score of years past and who conducted a restaurant. In 1920, of course, a great many around here had some sort of connections to Petray or his deputies. For this reason, his many brother Knights and friends from other sections of the state, were especially interested in the collection. The body of Valento at the request of his aged mother, was taken to San Francisco on Friday and quietly buried in that city. Patteson is universally known in this section, and his selection will meet with popular approval. (LeBaron declined to disclose his name at the time and in her interview with theBohemianlast week.) This is not the place for such cattle to congregate. The dispatch with which this landmark event [the triple lynching] was concluded may be surprising in an era when legal matters take months, even years, to resolve. PSC Milton campus instructor Darlene Mosley is the coalitions coordinator. These community events are where we start the conversation.. It was expected that inquiry would be made in San Francisco to determine the basis of this report. 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. As with the start on the previous day, sufficient momentum was not obtained for the big plane to rise above the telegraph wires, and Fred resorted to his trick of that day to dive beneath the wires. Five separate shipments were made to Sebastopol, three to Healdsburg, two to Sonoma and Petaluma, and all day long scores of newsboys were busy on the streets disposing of Press Democrats, for which there appeared be a constant and ever-increasing demand. Petaluma Daily Morning Courier, December 11, 1920. Three men: George Boyd, Terry Fitts, and Charles Valento, all members of. For questions please email us at: Not only will a determined effort be made to rid the county of any persons of criminal inclination or intent, but determined action will also be begun to suppress and eradicate places in the county or city where such people rendezvous. Santa Rosa is going to be known as an unsafe place for criminals. Had someone foolishly written and circulated a list, the vigilantes could have been charged years, even decades later there is no statute of limitations for murder. Until such time as they are interred, he feels that it is his duty to give out no information on the subject what ever. . We were a small rural county; Santa Rosas population was 8,758, almost exactly the size of Cloverdale today (2021). A local historian has created a spreadsheet of 115 deaths attributed to Sonoma County police forces since 1989. Members of the mob would pull him up and then let him down again and again, according to the NAACP deposition. This exhibit will be outside the regular farm center exhibits and will be staged in the industrial tent, which will in itself be a unique feature, as it will be the only horticultural and agricultural exhibit in that tent. The body of Charles Valento, one of the men who was lynched yesterday morning at Santa Rosa, passed through this city in an ambulance last night at 5 oclock en route to San Francisco early in the afternoon. For the three gangsters, each verdict was exactly the same: District Attorney Hoyle who had been informed of the lynching by the Press Democrat and not by the sheriff vowed to conduct a thorough investigation into who did it, but apparently gave up after only two days because he couldnt find anyone willing to snitch on the vigilantes. 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. Ranchers thronged through the streets as if the event were one of carnival nature.. 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. The mother is residing in Australia. For example: All of the vigilantes had loaded weapons but were they really prepared to use them? Coroner F. H. Phillips has received a letter from Mrs. Elizabeth Barron of Waterloo, Australia, the mother of George Barron, alias Boyd, who was lynched at Santa Rosa in December together with Terry Fitts and Valento, asking whether her son had died from natural causes, violence or accident, and the coroner will reply to the mother that her son died a violent death and will not go into details. The PD reported: The first inkling of the lynching came to Santa Rosa by phone from Petaluma just before 11 oclock. They then tied Johnson to a tree trunk and burned him alive, according to the deposition. And I think the answer to that is no in many, but not all, circumstances.. At Santa Rosa the pictures were already at Noonan Field there, through advance arrangement. People become so desensitized and we have to remind them of the struggle if were to move forward, and thats for people of all colors and races., The focus of these early meetings is to get people talking about race and ethnicity, Mosley said. Gaye LeBaron broke that story in 1985 after he spoke to her and in 1989 she recorded an interview which is available on the SSU website. The sympathy of the entire community will be extended to the relatives and friends of the three brave officers who were murdered here Sunday. Grim Hangmans Tree, Reminder Of Lynching In 1920, Is Laid Low By Ax. Those conspiracies of silence are more like appendices to the lynching story, so Im breaking them out into parts of their own otherwise this chapter would be uncomfortably long, and the transcripts of sources would be a jumble of mixed articles spanning from 1919 to 1922. With Patteson as bailiff of the superior court, Marvin Robinson will be freed for general work throughout the county. The Community Remembrance Project Coalition is a partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative of Montgomery, Alabama. Santa Rosa is one of the largest cities in Laguna, forming the urban sprawl along the western coast of Laguna de Bay. In fact, report says, they are being acclaimed as public heroes. Nine African-Americans were lynched in Santa Rosa County from 1884 to 1937. 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. After the end of the war he stayed in the service as personnel adjutant at the base there was no leadership experience apparent in his military record. 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. on the back---it is an AZO card. Almost thirty years passed until July 1949, when staff writer Frank Herbert (he of sci-fi novel DUNE fame) penned a two-part feature on the murders and lynchings that somehow managed to get almost every single fact wrong. The mortuary still bears his name. On Friday, a troop of armed, masked men stormed the jailhouse, liberated cell keys from deputies and hogtied the three prisoners, stuffing their mouths with rags, and looping nooses over their heads. LeBaron promised not to reveal the vigilantes identity until 10 years after his death, and she locked the tape recording in the vault of the Sonoma County Library. As it turned out, Clarence H. Barney Barnard lived to be 108, dying in 2008. Cleanliness. 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. Then there was the plan by Santa Rosa authorities to conceal what happened to the bodies out of concern for grave robbers. SANTA ROSA. In America, whiteness describes a social caste, not skin color. Hotel in Santa Rosa. He opined, however, that the law would likely shield a reporter from producing evidence of a crimeif subpoenaed by law enforcement. 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. 5 min read. The website fails to mention that Gelhaus fired eight shots into the child, Lopez, nor does it breathe a word about any of the many homicides committed by deputies empowered by the prerogatives of whiteness to terrorize and kill members of disempowered groups. In the history of Sonoma County, only one cop has been prosecuted for homicide, and he got off. 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. LeBaron: Did your parents know you went? But now that it was over, everyone was glad of being rid of those troublesome gangsters. Phillips said nothing further about the graves and was never confronted about why he kept it secret. So great was the demand for the Santa Rosa paper that an hour after the first ones were received the Republican was sent a telegram asking for more, 11,000 COPIES OF PRESS DEMOCRAT SPREAD THE STORY. 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