This was the last lynching to take place in Sonoma County. The suspects had kidnapped and brutally attacked two girls in San Francisco and had been tracked to Santa Rosa. The hour and the place of the burial was kept private. and the securing of an engraved plate, giving the date and details of the lynching, and the cause for the action, was R. D. Robinson, who contributed fifty cents as a starter for such a fund, and asked that the newspapers of Santa Rosa accommodate people of like opinion by receiving their contributions. Since then, every August 30th the people of Lima pay tribute to the patron saint of the city: Santa Rosa de Lima. Fitts will be buried by the family, but not in the family plot. 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. While most lynchings involved hangings, lynchings include any premediated extrajudicial killing by a group. Readers of this entire series will recall the Santa Rosa episode began when Fitts Sr. died, leaving the large family home on College Ave. unoccupied and conveniently just at a time when Terry and his criminal companions wanted a hideout from San Francisco police. The Radical Senate: James Abourezk of South Dakota, America is Not a Racist Country: How Nikki Haley Became Israels Candidate for the White House, Three Reasons (Other Than Age) Why Joe Biden Should Not Run Again For President, The Global South Refuses Pressure to Side With the West on Russia, The 20th Anniversary of the Sociocide of Iraq by Bush/Cheney. He was reportedly shot at by a white man, who claimed that Johnson had fired at him. Phillips spent nearly an hour at the jail with the sheriff (probably joined by Welti) prior to heading for the cemetery. Want a ride to Santa Rosa? A mob broke into the jail, seized Garca and hanged him from the Los Gatos Creek . That it didnt happen is historys loss; the District Attorney said the day before that he would be revealing new bombshell charges at the arraignments. 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. Conspicuous among the crowds were many women and children, CASSASSA ARRESTED Sheriff John M. Boyes stated Tuesday that the first work which he would undertake would be to ask the co-operation of every peace officer north of San Francisco to join in making this territory too hot for criminals or their associates. Bianchi Boy and Companion, Each 14 Years of Age, Arrested Once More; Pockets Are Found Full of Money and Jewelry. He and mortician Welti and likely the sheriff and other members of law enforcement had vowed to keep the locations a secret from the public. The bodies were usually those of impoverished Blacks.3, Yes, major educational institutions were acquiring bodies, including brains, well into the mid-20th century a practice not considered illegal because it was Native Americans they were digging up. 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. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window). 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. And that was before she made a tape recording of the confession. Reports circulated in Sonoma County today that among the members of the mob, all masked, were San Francisco policemen. Fred Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Young of Healdsburg, has received a commission as a lieutenant in the aviation branch of the service at San Diego. The . Other partners in the local coalition are the LEAP Committee of the Milton City Council; Milton First United Methodist Church Youth Group; Mt. Then a veritable shower of jewelry occurred. 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. Personally, I think the whole judicial system has fell apart, you know. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Young received a letter from their son Fred, who is in the aviation section at San Diego, announcing that he had experienced his first flight. But the Press Democrat was told there were no interments in any of the local cemeteries, including potters field, and no coffins were shipped from Santa Rosa by train. Then, last December, . She said that a lawyer for theNew York Times, which owned thePress Democrat, told her to go ahead with the story since a 86-year-old man was not likely to be prosecuted for a 65-year-old crime of that nature. But no matter; the jury stuck to its simple mission of determining the causes of death for the officers and the lynched men. Maynard Young, who returned from a visit to his Colusa County ranch on Friday night, was here on business Saturday. This time she was asking how he had died and not his whereabouts, so perhaps she really was his mom and not a reporter trying to coax out burial details. Robinson has been handicapped in his work since the murder of Sheriff Petray. 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. Petaluma Campus. As a part of the attraction, Santa Rosa is showing the visiting delegates to the grand lodge encampment, Knights of Pythias, the county Jail received more than its share of praise and interest from the visitors. The coalition meets once a month at Pensacola State College. 8.5 Very Good 279 reviews. 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 . 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 hotel is exceptionally clean, the staff are friendly and the breakfast is generous and delicious. 1. Victims of the 1920 lynching in Santa Rosa, CA. But I dont see how a journalist could be prosecuted fornotreporting the information, when a district attorney couldnt compel that information. After three hoodlums killed the local sheri and a detective, a mob busted them out of the Santa Rosa jail and . He was confident enough in his crew that he stayed among those in the office with the sheriff. This was no bitter, hotblooded revenge. 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. A Pensacola social justice organization is exploring appropriate ways to honor and remember victims of lynchings in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties from the 19th century through the 1950s. In the previous twelve days Sonoma County had endured nearly constant rain, including a torrential downpour 48 hours earlier that left downtown streets impassable. It takes several men to drag a man up. This was the last lynching to take place in Sonoma County. When the undertakers closed for noon lunch the crowd patiently waited for them to reopen at 2 oclock. The company has a lease of the Hiatt garage, on West street and the machinery is being installed this week. All that remained was to slip the ropes around their necks and hoist them up. Today, the nooses reside at the Museum of Sonoma County. In short, they were men who wouldnt need arm-twisting from the Captain to convince them the murder of a sheriff was something which must be avenged. 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. We exonerate the sheriff and his deputies from any blame therewith. For this reason, his many brother Knights and friends from other sections of the state, were especially interested in the collection. Sheriff James A. Petray has just returned from a business trip to Colusa countyWhile away he visited his old friend Jack Smith. We Have Had Our Lesson; Shall We Profit by It? 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. Without questioning the lads. So off they went to Santa Rosa in a dozen (or so) cars with plans for all to convene at the Rural Cemetery. - Press Democrat, December 8 1920 . He has been detailed as an Instructor at the San Diego aviation field. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 21. 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. 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. Now they were buried, why continue the subterfuge? District Attorney Hoyle spend the day in gathering statements relative to the summary executions of the three gangsters. The body of George Boyd, confessed slayer of the three peace officers and accused of ravishing young girls in San Francisco, is being held at the undertaking parlor. How revealing, though, this was a top concern of his at the time. In her press columns, Lebaron did not acknowledge the existence of this extra-judicial execution or policelynchingof Ward. In 1990, the sheriff created the Gang Team, which, notably, included Erick Gelhaus. Nevertheless, you still put on a hat and went downtown to gawk at the corpses lying on marble slabs in the morgue. THE BEE GETS PHOTO BY AIRPLANE He knew Sheriffs Petray and Smith personally. The public snatched up postcards of the lynched gangsters being sold in San Francisco and the fellow who bootleged the photo earned approx. When You Visit Let Our List of 30 Things To Do Be Your Guide. DEC. 10 1920 SANTA ROSA CAL. 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. And with that, the mystery of what happened to their bodies begins. 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. The Standard Machine Works, the new company formed by Don Patteson and L. B. You dropped a ring there, didnt you? Maynard was asked. They were brought to the county jail, where they gave their names and occupations as Walt Connors and F. Mulhall, masseurs at Burkes. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's Wine Country and fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont and 26th largest city in California. While most lynchings involved hangings, lynchings include any premediated extrajudicial killing by a group. Mrs. Emma Kopf was elected to fill the vacancy. He will undoubtedly meet with success. Home Values By City. 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. A 24-hour guard was placed on it Saturday, and there were so many sightseers on Sunday that Santa Rosa policemen were stationed at both ends of Franklin ave. to direct traffic. Cassassa is a pioneer grape-grower and winemaker of Sonoma county and is well to do. 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. The Vatican also celebrates this festivity on August 23rd. 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. You dropped a ring there, didnt you? someone asked Young, and he bent down and picked up a small gold ring. You can also report such discharge between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. at 850-981-7135 or 850-981-7090. 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). It was expected that inquiry would be made in San Francisco to determine the basis of this report. They wanted Santa Rosa known (per the future 1946 slogan) as The City Designed for Living, not The City Bent on Hanging Scallywags.. Petaluma Morning Courier, December 11 1920. They were in and out of the jail with their prisoners in less than ten minutes. Sheriff Petray is buried at Oak Mound Cemetery in Healdsburg. HEALDSBURG TO HAVE BIG SHOW Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country. Heres How We Fix That. Where was the Captain during all this? He has been associated with his brother, Don Patteson, in the auto business at the Standard Machine Shop. Lost in the newsprint was any real consideration of why it is not okay to cheer for lynchings. Green Cove Springs ( Photos) Avon Park ( Photos) Deland ( Photos) Sebring ( Photos) Palatka ( Photos) Palmetto. The letters and reporter notes are archived at the Gaye LeBaron Collection housed at Sonoma State University. When criminals and cut-throats find things too hot for them in San Francisco and have to clear out, they must understand that we dont want them up this way, even temporarily. A long line waited patiently for the reopening, San Francisco Chronicle, December 11 1920. Making national news, the cemetery was the site of a famous lynching in 1920. With the appointment of Harry Patteson of Healdsburg as deputy sheriff to be detailed as bailiff in department one of the superior court, Sonoma county has one of the best organised sheriff systems in the state, Patteson took up his duties as deputy yesterday. . Santa Rosa cannot afford to be known as a hang-out for criminals and moral degenerates. 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. The grand dream of making the entire U.S. accessible was realized in 1926 with the creation of Route 66. 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. By not mentioning those sticky points the town was shorn of any need to express shame or regret. In later years Fred Young was a popular and respected Healdsburger, active in the American Legion and several fraternal groups. The landing was made at Mather Field at 3:40 p. m. From there the photographs were rushed to the engravers by Howard Meiss on a motorcycle. 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. Mr. Young is confidant that he will do well in the handling of this car and already has had many inquiries concerning the same. We note, emphatically, that white and race are sociopolitical constructs andnotrooted in meaningful biological differences. While the newspapers usually didnt name members of a posse, Don was listed twice in 1915, searching for bandits and a missing man, plus being part of a 1913 opium raid on Sebastopols Chinatown. Since 2020, the names of the dead are Ricky Estrada, Douglas Thoreson, Salvador Jimenez, Michael Webber, Sean Bell, Donald Miller, Amber Marcotte, Gabriel Wibier, Jordan Pas and Benjamin Vega. Their presence is a menace, their very proximity a blight. Also incorporated were later comments by Clarence H. Barney Barnard, the only member of the vigilantes to talk about it. former Sheriff of Sonoma county, now engaged in ranching at Knights Landing. The arrest comes as a direct result of the harboring of Terry Fitts, Charles Valento and Geo. Its still our history. Only a single person was ever prosecuted in connection with the gangsters ill-fated Santa Rosa sojurn: Domenico Casassa the 71 year-old wine maker who foolishly believed he saw a trace of goodness behind the cold, dead eyes of Terry Fitts. At the same time as The Press Democrat was assembling the data of the lynching, messages were flashed to the outside world. Understand []. Ray Owen, co-author of the new edition of the cemeterys burial reference book is confident he has found their burying place, or at least the grave of Fitts. 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. 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. Presumably he was deputized in other Smith posses as well. Inman Family Wines. Within days of his demise, LeBaron outed him as the lyncher in thePress Democrat with his daughters permission, she says. What emerges is that he and his family seemed to spend time with others who likewise came from Alexander Valley. 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. The Milton Gazette said Johnson was accused of assaulting a well-known white woman in Milton. And much of that official history is sourced from LeBarons writings, echoing her attitude that in retrospect, a series of county lynchings were culturally understandable acts of justice. When Mrs. Newman was interviewed she stated that she had exercised her authority as president of the board in ordering the tree cut down. 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. Takeaways were that the militarily disciplined lynch mob was organized by a Healdsburg businessman called the Captain, who was later elected county coroner. 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 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. Napa Valley is world famous for its wine. However, using Santa Rosa as a base, it's possible to visit as much of the nearby wineries and vineyards all you want. Theres more discussion of this (and how our county became a leader in espousing such bullshit) in SONOMA COUNTY AND EUGENICS.2. 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. It was a shocking affair, and created more feeling than has previously been manifested in Sonoma county for a long time. The new South Santa Rosa Clinic, located at 2285 Challenger Way, is the culmination of years of work. 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. The car was injured beyond repair except at its home workshops, and it will be shipped to Riverside by rail. 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. CELEBRATOR STOPS AUTO ON HIGHWAY; SHERIFF IS IN IT. And we still need to face that horrible history, no matter how horrible and traumatic it is. . 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. Relatives of the hanged man came to Santa Rosa yesterday and made arrangements for the burial shortly before noon yesterday the body of the Santa Rosa gangster was swathed in a sheet to keep it from the gaze of the thousands of morbid people who formed in long lines to wait their turn to look at the three dead men. Nor did he associate with anyone in law enforcement or their offices. Like Maynard Young, Lattin was law enforcement-adjacent in those years. By iseko. Although his only background was in farming, Harry was working at the Standard Machine Shop around the time of the lynching, according to the Healdsburg Tribune. Making less than 5,000 cases of pinot noir, chardonnay, and pinot gris, Inman Wines is a true 'boutique' winery. CROWDS OF CURIOUS GATHER AT JAIL AND VIEW BODIES LAID OUT AT MORGUE. But all is not fraternal inside the department. 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. in the Airport Business Center north of Santa Rosa, but instead will add . We shot [unintelligible] ourselves, and we had [to kill], and thats the way they operated in them days, and if it hadnt have, why, you know, there would be no law at all.. Why is Assange in Jail and Not Seymour Hersh? 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). PSC personnel are taking a lead role in researching the Santa Rosa County lynchings, with hopes to document the brutal acts and, eventually, recognize the victims with a historical marker to be erected at a yet-to-be specified location. This is not the place for such cattle to congregate. The Community Remembrance Project Coalition is a partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative of Montgomery, Alabama. Since 1980, the California Constitution has shielded journalists who are subpoenaed by law enforcement to turn over unpublished information. 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. The Santa Rosa Lynching. Press Democrat, December 10 1920 Fred won the promotion in competitive examination, his percentage being 95. V2p81dIn PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. By 2021, the whiteness quotient plummeted to 62%, replaced mostly by the Latinx category. Now lets crack this nut and see whats inside. Santa Rosa Republican as reprinted in the Sacramento Bee, December 10, 1920. 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. Within minutes, the hapless trio were trucked to the cemetery. 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. The three men, Terry Fitts, George Boyd, and Charles Val Budget. Many people saw the ambulance go quietly through here, but did not know it carried the body of one of the victims of the lynchers. MAYNARD YOUNG would be the top contender to play the role of the Captain, if that part was not otherwise cast. Santa Rosa Republican, December 11 1920. 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. 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. 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. FITTS FUNERAL HELD PRIVATE In addition, minority populations have increased. The famous photo over whose exclusive rights Finley had made such a fuss would not be printed again until 1968. Search over two million items. For a century the complex story of what happened here in December 1920 has been pared down to its bones. His wartime assignment was as a flight instructor in Southern California. 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