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Then a general inquiry was started as to why the tree had been cut down and the splendid shade it had afforded destroyed forever. 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 Captain finished by telling the men to meet back at the same building. 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. 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. The 2010 census reported a population of 167,815. THE BEE GETS PHOTO BY AIRPLANE Santa Rosa is the perfect mid-trip stopping point between Dallas and Phoenix. Last year I went to the Haunted HayRide LA, at it was PERFECT. According to research by Tuskegee University, there were 1,297 lynchings of white people and 3,446 lynchings of African Americans. Sheriff James A. Petray has just returned from a business trip to Colusa countyWhile away he visited his old friend Jack Smith. Not a word of the lynching was sent to the aged woman, who had written to Warden J. J. Smith making inquiries as to the whereabouts of her son. 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. The city has a population of over 350,000, one of the densest in Laguna, ahead of San Pedro.Despite the industrial and commercial developments in the city, Santa Rosa still serves as a bedroom community 38 km (24 mi) south of Manila. 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. In short, the movers and shakers came to realize the womens club federation was right it was in the towns best interest not to brag about what happened here. He has been detailed as an Instructor at the San Diego aviation field. 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. 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. The letters and reporter notes are archived at the Gaye LeBaron Collection housed at Sonoma State University. 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 gruesome collection reminiscent of the late triple lynching here, drew the greatest attention from the visitors. Fitts as a boy had played about the tree before he became the despair of a respectable family. When he was in the county jail and slowly dying from the gunshot wound, Boyd told reporters his mother lived in Seattle although the address he provided didnt exist (that might have been a newspaper typo, however). 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. And with that, the mystery of what happened to their bodies begins. 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. By iseko. Drink Napa Valley Wine. 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. Believe it or not: Ray Lattins name still pops up in Today in History type newspaper columns because he was owner and trainer of King the wonder dog in the early 1940s. More than 11,000 copies of The Press Democrat were printed and sold during the day, and the paper was in circulation in all parts of Sonoma county long before daylight. Finally, there were related things that happened in the days (and years) that followed and must be mentioned to complete the history of these events. The sisters wanted Terry interred there as well; no way, said the cemetery. One of those horrendous murders happened less than a half-mile from the current Pensacola State College Milton campus, according to a PSC researcher. Barnard said the vigilantes drilled for three nights preparing the armed assault on the jail house. The boys were searched and more jewelry and silver coins were found on them. It takes several men to drag a man up. The identity of the Captain and (most) of the vigilantes will never be known for certain. 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. This is the fifth chapter in the series on the 1920 lynchings in Santa Rosa, "THERE WILL BE PRICES PAID," and describes events which happened later in the day of December 5.Just an hour earlier Sonoma County Sheriff James A. Petray and two San Francisco detectives had been gunned down while trying to arrest a gangster in Santa Rosa. Such was the hunger for this salacious news that thePress Democratprinted extras. 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. 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. Interviewed by the San Francisco Call, Phillips made the waters even murkier by saying neither Boyd nor Fitts had been buried to his knowledge. He said, no, it worked out so nice. Barnard explained that the vigilantes were afraid that the court trial would be a long drawn out deal. The body of Terence Fitts was covered in deference to a request of his relatives hereThe bodies of the trio continued to be the chief attraction during the morning. At Santa Rosa the pictures were already at Noonan Field there, through advance arrangement. 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.. TWO BOY BURGLARS AGAIN JAILED; MUCH LOOT FOUND 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. On Thursday [sic] relatives of Fitts notified the coroner that they would claim his body. Look how it is now. His wartime assignment was as a flight instructor in Southern California. Since 1980, the California Constitution has shielded journalists who are subpoenaed by law enforcement to turn over unpublished information. The term lynch law refers to a self-constituted court that imposes sentence on a person without due process of law. Santa Rosa, CA 95401-4395 (707) 527-4011. When the crew stormed the jail they brought along acetylene torches and the tanks to cut through the cell doors if they couldnt find the keys; the same Tribune item states welding was a special feature of the garage. 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. 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. Snyder mused, When a reporter stumbles across a crime, there is nothing keeping her from reporting it to law enforcement. He and his partner will undoubtedly establish a first class business in Healdsburg. 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. Located right in the center of the Sonoma County wine region, Santa Rosa is home to several vineyards with world-class wines, rich histories and beautiful surroundings. It is also said that relatives of Fitts intended to claim his body and give it interment. Cassassa is a pioneer grape-grower and winemaker of Sonoma county and is well to do. 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.. They probably will be put under a charge today. The vigilantes had enjoyed enthusiastic inside help from jailhouse deputies. And now that the community has had its lesson, shall we profit by it, or merely go along in the same old way? After the dead gangsters were cut down they would be taken to the Welti mortuary at 795 Fourth street, which doubled as the town morgue. He named names. 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. The engine will co-operate with axles in the rear; the only question on your mind is where you go from here. Young gathered this up also. The next day (Saturday, Dec. 11) there was a quiet funeral service at Weltis for Terrance Fitts, with only a few attending. 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. In early March, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors honored retiringPress Democratreporter Gaye LeBaron for chronicling the people, culture and history of Sonoma County.. Contributing Institutions; Collections; Exhibitions; About; Claremont Colleges Library Ken Gonzales-Day Collection; Santa Rosa, 1920: S.F. When asked where their riches came from, they claimed, Just find it in the street, thats all, lyin right there in the street.. 501. In 2008, Lebaron praised the late Barnard as the last of a generation of north country pioneers guardian of an 88-year-old secret involving frontier justice. Bernard had said that the lynching was the right thing I just cant believe it was wrong. Now more than a century later new details have emerged that show the vigilante operation was even more cunning than suspected. 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. All credit for its success was given to the leader whom Barney called the Captain, and theres no dispute the mission was brilliantly planned and executed. They then tied Johnson to a tree trunk and burned him alive, according to the deposition. 1920-Santa Rosa, CA A local guy named Terry Fitts, recently paroled from prison and hanging around with friends "Spanish" Charley Valento and George Boyd at Valento's home on San Francisco's Howard Street (Valento and Boyd were members of S.F.'s notorious "Howard Street Gang") became suspects in a violent kidnapping and sexual assault on a young woman said to have taken . Within half an hour after the lynching occurred, The Press Democrat had two photographers on the scene, and shortly afterwards Ernest Ridley with a finished photograph of the three men was making fast time in a high-powered car to Sausalito, where a powerful launch was waiting to convey him across the bay to Meiggs wharf, the nearest point. The warden wrote back only that he died in Santa Rosa.. In America, whiteness describes a social caste, not skin color. 8.5 Very Good 279 reviews. Like Maynard Young, Lattin was law enforcement-adjacent in those years. Lieutenant W. A. Maxwell and Cadet L. H. Scott were assigned to the trip. The grand dream of making the entire U.S. accessible was realized in 1926 with the creation of Route 66. Each man knew his role and was expected to act without supervision. There was also a chance that yahoos might decide a single lynching wasnt good enough and seek to mutilate the bodies. 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. Santa Rosa is going to be known as an unsafe place for criminals. Asked if he would call a grand jury session to consider the hanging, Hoyle replied: I cant call a session until I have evidence to put before them. The evolution of the story as told in the additions and changes to the PD extras was summarized and partially transcribed in the previous chapter. According to the California Penal Code, Section 32: Every person who, after a felony has been committed, harbors, conceals or aids a principal in such felony, with the intent that said principal may avoid or escape from arrest, trial, conviction or punishment, having knowledge that said principal has committed such felony or has been charged with such felony or convicted thereof, is an accessory to such felony. The charge of accessory after the fact is punishable by a jail sentence of up to three years and a $5,000 fine. 2022. Patteson is universally known in this section, and his selection will meet with popular approval. And so the blitzkrieg attack began, wrapping up under ten minutes later with the gangsters tied and gagged and being chauffeured to their doom. Besides standing in line for a gruesome eyeful of the bodies, there were large clusters of people downtown in front of the county jail and outside the Press Democrat and Republican on Fifth street. 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. Mrs. Newman was not present at the meeting. An airplane was commissioned in Sacramento to fly here in poor visibility conditions to fetch their image. 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. 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. 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. The men wore bandanas and covered license plates with mud. The hour of the burial was kept quiet, and only those who had to be present were there. A culture of lynching. 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. A local historian has created a spreadsheet of 115 deaths attributed to Sonoma County police forces since 1989. The group held its first meeting in January. Reports circulated in Sonoma County today that among the members of the mob, all masked, were San Francisco policemen. One of the first to suggest such a subscription. [A version of this story appeared in the SF Chronicle Dec. 19 under the headline, BODIES OF TWO THUGS TAKEN FROM MORGUE]. Warden Smith wrote to the mother that he had authoritative information that her son had died at Santa Rosa on December 10, and he requested Coroner Phillips to break the news of her sons demise as gently as he could to the mother. 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. By not mentioning those sticky points the town was shorn of any need to express shame or regret. For a century the complex story of what happened here in December 1920 has been pared down to its bones. There is not a mention of the killing of 13-year-old Andy Lopez on Oct. 22, 2013 by Deputy Sheriff Erick Gelhaus. Then there was the plan by Santa Rosa authorities to conceal what happened to the bodies out of concern for grave robbers. Bianchi Boy and Companion, Each 14 Years of Age, Arrested Once More; Pockets Are Found Full of Money and Jewelry. The hotel is exceptionally clean, the staff are friendly and the breakfast is generous and delicious. He was also considered another possible candidate to fill out the term. He will undoubtedly meet with success. 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 no matter; the jury stuck to its simple mission of determining the causes of death for the officers and the lynched men. In an instant it was a wreck. It was expected that inquiry would be made in San Francisco to determine the basis of this report. 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. During that part of the century the dark nonsense of eugenics was given serious consideration by many institutions of higher education (and yes, including Stanford). The three men, Terry Fitts, George Boyd, and Charles Val Wineries & Vineyards. The ladies rest room is fitted up attractively, and is conveniently located near the front of the building. 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. 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. It was 1:15 in the morning when Dr. Phillips phone rang at his home in Petaluma. The Bernard tape Nice communities dont try to batter down the jailhouse door or parade by the thousands through a morgue. I am just beginning my investigations today and until I have taken several statements I cant tell whether or not the grand jury will be called., Apparently the mystery which involved the identify of the avenging throng was still buried from officials and as no trace or inkling of the men who participated in the hanging has leaked out doubt exists in the many minds if an official investigation will yield results, No Grand Jury Probe Expected At Santa Rosa, There is little likelihood of a Grand Jury investigation into yesterdays triple lynching, District Attorney George W. Hoyle said today as he began his formal inquiry into the mob action. In later years Fred Young was a popular and respected Healdsburger, active in the American Legion and several fraternal groups. Both bodies of course have been embalmed. From these two angles it appears today that Boyd also might have been a former Santa Rosa boy. MAYNARD YOUNG Mr. Patteson is a well known mechanican [sic] and has had much experience in garages and machine works here. The courtroom appearance of the men including Boyd on a stretcher likely would have been a circus, similar to the scene in San Francisco where crowds fought to watch the arraignments of other Howard street gangsters. A full story of the lynching is told in the book, "Santa Rosa, a 20th Century Town," but Barnard's name does not appear. 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. The number of wounds varied between 7-16, depending on who was telling the story. Since her beatification, a feast day in her honor was added in 1729 to the Roman Catholic Church but . SISTERS PLEA SAVES FITTS FACE FROM MORGUE EXPOSURE. B. That Boyd might be an alias of the slayer developed yesterday when the crowd were passing through the morgue. A few hours past dawn in the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery, John Dennison stood beneath a cluster of oak trees with the rest of the Tombstone Trio fellow. The lynching was done on Friday but vandalism on the tree continued unabated through the weekend and to such an extent that an expert was asked if it would survive. nor does his language leave them in obscurity or doubt. Dec. 12. 6. From 1959 to this year, Lebaron penned thousands of gossipy columns splashed with a bit of history, attesting to the old-fashioned goodness of local businesses, salt-of-the-earth ranchers, and police and sheriffs deputies who can do no wrong. SAN FRANCISCO POLICEMEN IN LYNCH PARTY, IS REPORT. The gruesome work finished, the Healdsburg vigilantes drove home and began leaning on their car horns. 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. Takeaways were that the militarily disciplined lynch mob was organized by a Healdsburg businessman called the Captain, who was later elected county coroner. 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.. The accident was a great disappointment to the young aviator, and to the hundreds of his warm friends of this community. Santa Rosa boy hit by vehicle remains hospitalized with critical injuries. He does not relish the task and will make things as easy as possible for the poor mother. Holiday Inn Express Santa Rosa, an IHG Hotel. 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 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. He was reportedly shot at by a white man, who claimed that Johnson had fired at him. 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. There have been various rumors relative to the final disposal of the bodies of the gangsters. 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. DEC. 10 1920 SANTA ROSA CAL. Why is Assange in Jail and Not Seymour Hersh? Before they left, Barnard recalled the Captain saying, If any one of you wants to back out, this is the time. 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. This piece first appeared in The Bohemian. 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. The significance of the business goes beyond the use of the premises (which by itself shows a high level of involvement with the scheme); several who worked there had ties to the martyred Sheriff Petray or other law enforcement officers in the county. The importance of this revelation will be discussed in a moment. Coroner F. H. Phillips of Sonoma county when flatly cornered by a Call man over the telephone today, finally admitted that the bodies of Boyd and Fitts have not as yet been buried to his knowledge, but he refused to state where they were, further than to admit that they have not been removed from the county. At trial, a jury of his peers let Petray off after deliberating for three minutes, according to local historian Jeff Elliot, who dives well and deep into contemporaneous accounts of the 1920 lynching in his online narrative,There Will Be Prices Paid. There seemed little likelihood of any evidence being secured to identify members of the mob, and without such Identification grand jury action would be improbable. At 2:45 p. m. they were in the hands of the birdmen and on their way to Sacramento. For this reason, his many brother Knights and friends from other sections of the state, were especially interested in the collection. On the other hand, theres a journalism ethics question. 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. 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. 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.. HARRY PATTESON DEPUTY SHERIFF Harry L. Patteson of this city has been appointed to the office of deputy under Sheriff John M. Boyes of Santa Rosa, and takes up his work immediately in Santa Rosa. Young promised that an exhibit would be brought here that would open the eyes of Sonoma countv people. 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