(Complete article is transcribed in chapter seven), 15 MACHINES RUSH OFFICERS AVENGERS TO SANTA ROSA JAIL This swung the plane out of its course and lessened its momentum, and before it could recover the plane collided with the roof of a barn, just across the street. ), Theres no question nearly everyone in town was pleased with the lynching. For more information see, Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 (Duke, 2006) Skip to main content. nor does his language leave them in obscurity or doubt. Today it lies in lengths on the ground, while chips from the trunk and pieces of limb are being carried into hundreds of homes in Santa Rosa, and taken far away by interested people as souvenirs. 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. The Standard Machine Works, the new company formed by Don Patteson and L. B. Tell Me When Systemic Racism Ended? In the history of Sonoma County, only one cop has been prosecuted for homicide, and he got off. The tree in question, a towering locust, was planted many years ago. 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. The mother is residing in Australia. 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. They were in and out of the jail with their prisoners in less than ten minutes. Here is a nice REAL PHOTO postcard view showing a TRIPLE LYNCHING of violent criminals/murderers with TRIPLE LYNCHING OF TERRY FITTS, GEORGE BOYD, & CHARLES VALENTO--KILLERS OF SHERIFF PETRAY AND DETECTIVES DORMAN AND JACKSON. 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. In an instant it was a wreck. At noon the morgue was closed until 2 oclock in the afternoon. (And for that matter, were they secretly armed?) 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. Grim Hangmans Tree, Reminder Of Lynching In 1920, Is Laid Low By Ax. 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. 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. The dog once selected a beauty queen and after the U.S. joined WWII, entertained enlisted men by playing dead after being asked to show what he would do to enemy soldiers. Through the co-operation of Captain T. S. Voss, acting for Major B. M. Atkinson, Commanding Officer at Mather Field, the Bee is enabled to publish to-day the photograph of the three gangsters hanged by the mob at Santa Rosa early this morning as they appeared swinging from the limb of an oak tree in the cemetery there. 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. The district attorney had not then heard of the occurrence and was so stunned at the news that he was unable to comment further at that moment. UC/Berkeley still has the largest collection with the remains of over 8,000 individuals, including entire skeletons. While most lynchings involved hangings, lynchings include any premediated extrajudicial killing by a group. 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. She reported that an anonymous member of the lynching party, who was in his early 20s when he joined the group, had visited her office and confessed to the crime, because his conscience told him, not that the act was wrong, but that history should be made accurate.. The dog, to be shown at the coming Petaluma Dog Show, November 2223, astounded spectators by identifying figures chalked on a blackboard and barking the numbers, in addition to presenting a routine of unusual tricks. He was arrested for stabbing another man to death following a card game at the Los Gatos Saloon. Located in Sonoma's Wine Country, Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country features an outdoor pool and hot tub. (She supposedly slept through all the yelling and other commotion at the jail while they were being hauled away by the vigilantes.). Santa Clara: California: 1883: Murder: Encarnacin Garca was a nephew of the bandido Tiburcio Vsquez. Petaluma Argus-Courier, December 13, 1920 dont forget the skulls!) DEC. 10 1920 SANTA ROSA CAL. Santa Rosa is full of local neighborhoods, art, and historic districts. 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. THE BEE GETS PHOTO BY AIRPLANE This is a postscript to the series on the 1920 lynchings in Santa Rosa, THERE WILL BE PRICES PAID and looks into the most significant of the conspiracies of silence that followed: How people in a small farm town executed a triple murder, then kept the planning behind it and the names of all those involved secret for 65 years. It is worth diving into the transcript of Bernards tape recording, including the parts of his testimony that LeBaron didnotpublish in her lynching columns. 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. Community coalitions like this are springing up all over the country, Mosley said. A great demonstration was made in Healdsburg by the returning lynchers. [A version of this story appeared in the SF Chronicle Dec. 19 under the headline, BODIES OF TWO THUGS TAKEN FROM MORGUE]. He lived here 20 years ago.. MAYNARD YOUNG would be the top contender to play the role of the Captain, if that part was not otherwise cast. Its likely many of the Healdsburg vigilantes were also on the scene and came away with the lesson that brute force was no guarantee of success. And in what seemed like a ruse by a newspaper to trick authorities into revealing what happened to the bodies, the warden of Folsom prison received a letter claiming to be from Boyds mother in Australia, inquiring where her son was. She repeatedly calls for her son and moans, My Boy, what have they done to you. She had not known he had been in trouble until notified of the death. 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. Keep in mind it was the day after the lynching and souvenir hunters were out in force, shredding the hanging tree of bark and stealing grass and pebbles from around its roots. While the lynching was a point of great civic pride right after the event there was even a lifesize blowup of the PDs iconic photo kept backstage at the Cline Theater, for purpose unknown it wasnt the sort of bucolic, small town Shadow of a Doubt image that the Chamber of Commerce and boosters like Finley wanted to promote. At the same time as The Press Democrat was assembling the data of the lynching, messages were flashed to the outside world. Robinson declares as his belief that the tree should he preserved as an everlasting reminder that murders of police of officers like that in which Sheriff Petray and Detectives Jackson and Dorman did not go unpunished, even if such punishment be by mob action. S. F. Call. He was elected County Coroner from 1926 to 1940 when he retired because of ill health. For a half-hour or more before making his landing, Fred treated his friends to an exhibition of his skill as an aviator, in stunts that even Beachey of fair-time days would have hesitated to attempt. Racing through the narrative of MULTIPLE crimes meant serious questions would not be asked or just given perfunctory attention; inconsistencies with testimony before the Grand Jury were left unclarified. 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.. The identity of the Captain and (most) of the vigilantes will never be known for certain. Fred jumped from the seat of the plane as soon as it fell to the ground, and did not receive a scratch. 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. The gaggle of self-appointed executioners, who, according to contemporaneous newspaper reports, included San Francisco lawmen, jerked on the ropes, jeering obscenities. There have been various rumors relative to the final disposal of the bodies of the gangsters. The earliest lynching case being investigated took place in 1884. 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. Ha helped us win the recent war with services of weight (a member of the draft board, we specifically state). While driving home from Petaluma about 11 oclock Thursday night, Sheriff James A. Petray and Jailer Gus Jewett, riding with Maynard Young, espied a man standing in the middle of the highway a short distance out of Santa Rosa and wildly waving his arms. By 1949, the ropey loops had been moved to the Freemasons Scottish Rite Temple. 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. 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 Cemetery on Franklin Avenue in Santa Rosa. Patteson is universally known in this section, and his selection will meet with popular approval. Maynard Young will have a salesroom for the Stevens Salient Six at the front of the building. When their father died on New Years Eve 1917, the Healdsburg and Geyserville newspapers endorsed the 30 year-old Harry to fill out Neds term on the Board of Supervisors (the governor chose a man from the Dry Creek area). 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. The unlikely Captain, part II: If Fred was called the Captain it was an honorific; he was in the Army during WWI with his highest rank as a Lieutenant, promoted because he scored well on a test. Mrs. Frank C. Newman, who had been elected president of Rural Cemetery Association in April, 1922, ordered the sexton of the cemetery to take it down a month later. The vigilantes had enjoyed enthusiastic inside help from jailhouse deputies. It is also definitely known by the Petaluma information sent here that there were Healdsburg people in the party. He has been associated with his brother, Don Patteson, in the auto business at the Standard Machine Shop. A Santa Rosa County School Board candidate running against a longtime incumbent in the August primary publicly proclaimed that doctors who prescribe hormone . Last year I went to the Haunted HayRide LA, at it was PERFECT. The body of Terence Fitts, black sheep, lynched at Santa Rosa, was saved from the eyes of morbid crowds by the petition of his sister, Mrs. Henry Pyburn, 537 Fifth avenue, San Francisco. Of the mostly male victims, 45 were killed by police gunshot; 12 by police beatings; seven by suicide during law enforcement actions; six during police car chases; and 45 while in sheriffs custody. Without questioning the lads. They then tied Johnson to a tree trunk and burned him alive, according to the deposition. Instead, that morning they used the Supervisors chambers at the courthouse to hold the coroners inquest.1 But that didnt just focus on the lynching; testimony also covered the vigilante raid on the jail, details of the murder of the lawmen five days earlier and prior doings of the gangsters around Santa Rosa. Asked if he planned to impanel a grand jury, he replied: I cant call a session until I have evidence to put before them., After the inquest, charges were also dropped against poor Dorothy Quinlan, although she was never accused of anything more serious than having bad taste in men. The body of Terrence Fitts was to be buried today in the local cemetery, his sisters having claimed the body on receipt of news of his death. When You Visit Let Our List of 30 Things To Do Be Your Guide. 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. Boyd, who paid the penalty for murder by being hanged by local citizens, had been removed from the morgue and buried. 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. 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. On Dec. 8, LeBaron followed-up with a scoop. Then two more rings were noticed on the floor along with a pearl and opal pendant. 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. One of the most notorious Santa Rosa County lynchings was the March 14, 1919, murder of military veteran Bud Johnson. STANDARD MACHINE WORKS TO OPEN IN HEALDSBURG. Capturing eyeballs, the front page featured a photograph of the dead men hanging limply, necks horribly askew, clothed only in soiled long underwear. Santa Rosa, city, seat (1854) of Sonoma county, western California, U.S. Mrs. Emma Kopf was elected to fill the vacancy. It was a lie. He was also considered another possible candidate to fill out the term. The lynching crew did not want to find deputies and policemen guarding the jail door, as happened at the Sunday night riot. The gruesome collection reminiscent of the late triple lynching here, drew the greatest attention from the visitors. Don C. Patteson and Jack Woods are to have a first class machine shop in Healdsburg and it will occupy the back part of the Maynard Young auto sales shop. 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. And with that, the mystery of what happened to their bodies begins. All he would admit was they were still somewhere in the county. The whereabouts of his grave remains unknown. Experience 4th Street Cellars Wine Bar or Whistle Stop Antiques. You have to think about the times we were in. About 3,000 people (including children) queued outside the Welti mortuary on the corner of Fourth and E to see the bodies of the three gangsters lying in the cold room. var _ctct_m = "d3e1dd689859431da495eb1970ed5ac7"; Pensacola State College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award baccalaureate and associate degrees and certificates. 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. For example: All of the vigilantes had loaded weapons but were they really prepared to use them? He had a salesmans type-A personality and was forceful in convincing others of his views. This is the eighth and final chapter in the series on the 1920 lynchings in Santa Rosa, THERE WILL BE PRICES PAID, which is not a simple story to wrap up. If no claim is made on the body it will be buried in potters field [now the Chanate Historic Cemetery -je].. He and Welti must have hoped reporters would tire of asking, which they did; by the end of the month the San Francisco newspapers rarely mentioned the lynching except to say it caused the police to beef up security when the other Howard street gangsters went on trial. 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. ), Meanwhile, souvenir hunters continued to assail the hanging tree at the Rural Cemetery collecting and treasuring mementos of the murders. (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.). The unrepentent confession unleashed a flood of correspondence from relatives of men who were known by their families to have been part of the lynching gang. The PD also had a window display of the bandanas and flour-sack masks discarded by the vigilantes along the road to Healdsburg. 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. CELEBRATOR STOPS AUTO ON HIGHWAY; SHERIFF IS IN IT. Its doubtful either man caught any further sleep that day; the Coroners Inquest was held later that morning and they still needed to suss out the dead gangsters next-of-kin. The machine lighted in the Noonan field, where it was met by a representative with the picture. My grandparents come across the plains, and thats the way it was. One of the first to suggest such a subscription. All day long Sunday there was a stream of automobiles passing along the cemetery road, the curious occupants seeking a view of the tree on which the gangsters were lynched Friday morning. Such was the hunger for this salacious news that thePress Democratprinted extras. The Urban Hotspot. Lessons Not Learned From the Pentagon Papers, The US Navy is More Than Just Broken, Careerism is Tearing It Apart, Sensitivity Rewrites: The Cultural Purging of Roald Dahl, The Biden National Security Team Must Get SmarterSooner, Building Direct Democracy in an Atlanta Forest, Truth, No Matter What: Why Watering Down Palestinian Reality is a Crime, How Howard Schultz Made Starbucks the Poster Child of Corporate Abuse, Letter from London: Meeting at Maison Bertaux, Why Much of the Global South Isnt Automatically Supporting the West in Ukraine. This is the seventh chapter in the series on the 1920 lynchings in Santa Rosa, " There never was any such list, according to Gaye LeBaron and Lynn Prime, curator of the LeBaron special collection at SSU. 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. Don came from an Alexander prune growing family like the Petrays, Youngs and Lattins discussed in this story. But all is not fraternal inside the department. Both terms are derived from the name of Charles Lynch (1736-96), a Virginia planter and . 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. Nonprojected graphic Extent 1 photoprint ; 3 3/4 x 4 5/8 in. Petaluma Campus. When it was over he flew a Jenny back to Healdsburg in 1919, becoming the first airplane to land in town and to great excitement. Other partners in the local coalition are the LEAP Committee of the Milton City Council; Milton First United Methodist Church Youth Group; Mt. Will California Save the Iconic Joshua Tree? It was a shocking affair, and created more feeling than has previously been manifested in Sonoma county for a long time. It was retributive justice, carried out more quickly than the ponderous law could have acted. He leased 8,000 acres near Willits and attracted many local investors and when that failed tried drilling near Eureka. Mr. Patteson, discussing his plans here Thursday stated that the machine shop will be equipped with everything right up to date for the handling of work. The two men left and returned almost immediately, telling Boyes someone would come there in half an hour. A long line waited patiently for the reopening, San Francisco Chronicle, December 11 1920. 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. 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. Erick Gelhaus is the name of the deputy who killed Andy Lopez. Young recognised them when they hailed him and brought them to the county jail without warning of his intention. 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). Mr. Young is confidant that he will do well in the handling of this car and already has had many inquiries concerning the same. In 1876, nightriders broke into county jail and hanged murder suspect, Charles Henley. A longtime school board member is facing a challenger in the race for the Santa Rosa County School Board's District 3 seat . 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. Harvest Festivals, Pumpkin patches, mazes, hayrides, haunted house? 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.. And I think the answer to that is no in many, but not all, circumstances.. 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. There are some reports that his skull was split with a hatchet and parts of the skull were given to members of the mob as souvenirs. Santa Rosa, CA 95401-4395 (707) 527-4011. A great crowd of home folks was at the field to see him start. 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. The early meetings, including the March 26 and April 24 meetings, are designed as Community Conversations about Race and Ethnicity. At the Feb. 25 meeting, members split into various groups to discuss their own backgrounds and experiences with racial issues. For the rest of Ernest Finleys life, not a word about it would reappear in his newspaper. A mob broke into the jail, seized Garca and hanged him from the Los Gatos Creek . TWO BOY BURGLARS AGAIN JAILED; MUCH LOOT FOUND PABATID SA PUBLIKO Pinapaalala po sa lahat na ang ENERO 18, 2023 (Miyerkules) ay isang SPECIAL (NON-WORKING) DAY sa Lungsod ng Santa Rosa, Laguna alinsunod sa Proclamation No. Valento was buried at San Francisco Saturday, privately. 1. 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. While most lynchings involved hangings, lynchings include any premediated extrajudicial killing by a group. 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. But LeBaron and the owners of thePress Democratwere not protecting a whistleblower producing incriminating evidence of governmental wrongdoings. 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. They are going to be stopped, he declares, once and for all time. (UPDATE: Ray has now published his findings and it can be revealed the gravesite is at Moke 234.). The tree burst into national notice December 10, 1920, when an organized mob took George Boyd, Terry Fitts and Charlie Valento, slayers of Sheriff James A. Petray and two San Francisco detectives five days previously, from the county jail early in the morning, and hanged them to a horizontal limb of the tree. 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. Charles Schulz was a man destined to create comic strips and animated cartoons and the Charles Schulz Museum uncovers. As for the mysterious Captain: In its digital exhibition, Crime of the Century: The Lynching of 1920, the Healdsburg Museum noted, the Captain was so competent in his role that people could not resist praising him, revealing his identity. The person named there is Fred Young. Democratprinted extras, deputies watched 200 vigilantes tar and feather communist reds Youngs and discussed. 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