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. 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. 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. ), The PD boasted of their extraordinary middle-of-the-night drive to San Francisco so the Call could make a halftone printing plate of the lynched men, but the Republican had its own photo and a similar deal with the Sacramento Bee. On all sides were heard the remarks, They got what was coming to them, and Good riddance and a saving of money for their trial. All seemed to join in unanimous approval of the ghastly procedure. Unless exemptions apply, emails sent to City staff or Council members, any attachments, and any replies, are subject to disclosure upon request, and neither the sender nor any . whose family has been connected with official life in this county for years. He has a large family, including grandchildren, and it is said his conduct in connection with the San Francisco gangsters has not met with the approval of his family, who it is declared have strenuously protested but to no avail, nearly breached the fortress-like county jail, archive of the American Eugenics Movement, plotted to ambush the San Francisco detectives, ROAD TO THE MALL: THE BIG BOOK OF RED FLAGS. News reports from the time are sketchy and often contradictory, and there are numerous reports and theories on what . The two hopped off on Mather Field at 1:22 p. m. and arrived at Santa Rosa at 2:30 p. m. after encountering a heavy fog at intervals. Charles Valentos mother in San Francisco was quickly found, although the 70 year-old woman was reportedly unaware of her sons recent infamy. Mrs. Elizabeth Barron of Sydney. First Airplane to Visit This City, Piloted by Local Man. 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. Cassassa [sic] is a pioneer grape-grower and winemaker of Sonoma county and is well to do. The hour of the burial was kept quiet, and only those who had to be present were there. She was prevented by illness from attending the session according to a report received by the other directors. 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. After three hoodlums killed the local sheri and a detective, a mob busted them out of the Santa Rosa jail and . 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. #9 of 36 hotels in Costa Teguise. Its estimated 2019 population was 178,127. Besides showing those connections (and offering a few pretty good stories) it provides context to the most ingenious part of the Captains plan, which has been previously untold: Just before the masked vigilantes stormed the jail, he positioned one or more unmasked spies inside the building. 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 . After a day spent organizing the crew, they gathered together for the first time on Tuesday night to begin rehearsing the mission in the back part of the Standard Machine Works building. According to research by Tuskegee University, there were 1,297 lynchings of white people and 3,446 lynchings of African Americans. Value. The Riley family lived on Second street. AskUs@pensacolastate.edu 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. 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 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. 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. Why is Assange in Jail and Not Seymour Hersh? 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. 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. 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 . When told nowadays it is a simple tale that begins with how a good man was murdered and ends when the bad men were punished, as the Press Democrat put it at the time, swinging from the ropes ends, swaying in the wind and washed by the rain. Santa Rosa played no part in it whatsoever; why, we cant even be sure if anyone was here at all that week. Young promised that an exhibit would be brought here that would open the eyes of Sonoma countv people. LeBaron: Were you the only one in your family? The vigilantes burst through the jailhouse door just a few minutes later which suggests Lattin and/or McMinn gave the green light to launch the assault. But it seemed to work for as long as the county and towns were run by community leaders who were, in general, well respected and well educated by the standard of the times. Like Maynard Young, Lattin was law enforcement-adjacent in those years. In early February, a jury selected from registered voters voted to exonerate deputy sheriff Charles Blount, who, according to the coroner, bludgeoned, beat, terrified and murdered the unarmed, disoriented David Ward in 2019. 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. The letters and reporter notes are archived at the Gaye LeBaron Collection housed at Sonoma State University. 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. 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. He knew Sheriffs Petray and Smith personally. Shops were deserted and business was virtually suspended. As he was Sonoma County Coroner, this was not terribly unusual; people inconveniently die at all hours. Petaluma Daily Morning Courier, December 11, 1920. If you are confessing to a crime, we are obligated to report it. But, they chose instead to commercialize the sensational confession, and county law enforcers did nothing in response after the story was published. You dropped a ring there, didnt you? Maynard was asked. 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. 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. At 2:45 p. m. they were in the hands of the birdmen and on their way to Sacramento. Ray told audiences the dog was 34 collie and one part wolf. Since her beatification, a feast day in her honor was added in 1729 to the Roman Catholic Church but . Santa Rosa; Santa Rosa Real Estate Facts. The mortuary still bears his name. We Have Had Our Lesson; Shall We Profit by It? Should it become known that the graves were just a two minute stroll away, you can bet those same people would be adding handfuls of grave dirt to their ghoulish collections. Until such time as they are interred, he feels that it is his duty to give out no information on the subject what ever. Considering an angry mob nearly breached the fortress-like county jail a few days earlier, its hard to imagine much of a defense could be made if a vengeance-seeking crowd suddenly stormed the Welti funeral parlor. An NAACP deposition of the lynching said Johnson had recently returned from military service in Germany. Petaluma Argus-Courier, December 13, 1920 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. Type image Format Photographs. A great demonstration was made in Healdsburg by the returning lynchers. In the 1980 census, Sonoma County registered as 96% white people. 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. Today, the nooses reside at the Museum of Sonoma County. But Maynard Young has got a voice which does not waste a word. 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. Now more than a century later new details have emerged that show the vigilante operation was even more cunning than suspected. Announcement was previously made that Charles Valentos body had been sent to San Francisco, it having been claimed by the dead mans mother. 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. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 21. former Sheriff of Sonoma county, now engaged in ranching at Knights Landing. When the undertakers closed for noon lunch the crowd patiently waited for them to reopen at 2 oclock. Parkway Petaluma, CA 94954-2522 (707) 778-2415. 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. As Barney Barnard said in 1989, everything worked just like a clock. Upon receipt of word at noom to-day that a flashlight photograph had been taken by one of those present at the lynching, The Bee arranged through Captain Voss for the dispatch of a De Haviland 450-horsepower Liberty Motor airplane, capable of making 100 miles an hour, to Santa Rosa in order to obtain one of the pictures. She is 70 years of age and is near collapse. The new South Santa Rosa Clinic, located at 2285 Challenger Way, is the culmination of years of work. This was the last lynching to take place in Sonoma County. The paper added there were rumors around town claiming both bodies were unburied but hidden. That of Fitts it is said was turned over to the relatives but not buried. Ha helped us win the recent war with services of weight (a member of the draft board, we specifically state). Once they arrived he asked: Wouldnt they like to see the inside of a jail? Many in town, however, were probably awake and anxiously awaiting just such a signal that they had pulled off a perfect crime and killed three men. The pair, both masseurs at Burkes sanitarium, were jailed and fined $25 the next day. Want a ride to Santa Rosa? 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. Snyder mused, When a reporter stumbles across a crime, there is nothing keeping her from reporting it to law enforcement. Santa Rosa is going to be known as an unsafe place for criminals. And it took him quite a while to asphyxiate, by not breaking his neck, he said. The Urban Hotspot. 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. 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. SISTERS PLEA SAVES FITTS FACE FROM MORGUE EXPOSURE. They make few contributions to the other fellows ear. By Press Democrat service the Associated Press was enabled to put out 2500 words on the telegraph wire before 2 oclock in the morning. But the fellow who got it all organized, the Captain would only take 30. he wanted everybody to have an assignment and didnt want anybody who was going to get trigger happy and blow it all.. Petaluma Daily Morning Courier, December 17, 1920, Son Died, Grim Cable to Mother of Boyd, Lynched, Special Dispatch to The Call. His presence in Sonoma County began fading when the auto dealership closed in 1925 and was all but forgotten by the time he moved to Los Angeles and became an oil broker. She agreed to claim the body and it was driven to the city before nightfall. It takes several men to drag a man up. 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. Tree experts have stated their opinion that not enough bark has been removed to seriously harm the tree, and believe that it will stand and continue to live as a reminder of the lynching and the events which preceded it. The next meeting is from 6 to 8 p.m. on March 26. The sympathy of the entire community will be extended to the relatives and friends of the three brave officers who were murdered here Sunday. Heres How We Fix That. Inequality is Weakening Social Security. 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. This was likely when they all had a very earnest discussion about what might happen next their jobs were not over just because the gangsters were now dead. A phone message said it was reported there that the lynching was to take place at 11 oclock, and asked for information, but at that hour all was quiet on the streets and about the jail. While not done under the banner of eugenics (usually), some of the anthropologists shared the same racist agendas, such as using head measurements to determine the exact degree of a living persons Indian-ness.4. They are going to be stopped, he declares, once and for all time. B. B. There were over a hundred of these little poems in the Press Democrat, each three stanzas of charmingly awful doggerel, to wit: If you accept the echoed word of Mr. Maynard Young; youre sure to bite, the car is right, you simply cant be stung.). 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. Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country. Maynard Young will have a salesroom for the Stevens Salient Six at the front of the building. There never was any such list, according to Gaye LeBaron and Lynn Prime, curator of the LeBaron special collection at SSU. Located in Sonoma's Wine Country, Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country features an outdoor pool and hot tub. He has been in trouble before, and it is said there is a case pending against him in the Justice Court for selling liquor to Indians which has never been brought to trial. 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. 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. The three men, Terry Fitts, George Boyd, and Charles Val The mob that took from the Sonoma County jail the trio of gangsters arrested Sunday after the murder of three peace officers was drawn from a wide area of the north of bay region, as well as San Francisco. Maynard Young Arranges Special Exhibit Space for North End of Sonoma County. 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. Other members of the board, however, were greatly surprised and stated that had they been approached they would not have consented to the destruction of the tree. He crashed into a barn and destroyed the government flying machine but was unhurt. From $129 per night. 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. 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. Valentos body was shipped to his mother, who lives in Howard street. He named names. He will retain his residence in Healdsburg while serving on the sheriffs force. 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. Sure, they replied. 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. The lynching, he said, "is the best lesson California has ever given the country." The two men who were lynched had supposedly confessed to kidnapping and murdering Brooke Hart , the 22-year-old . Within minutes, the hapless trio were trucked to the cemetery. 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. There isnt anything to the flying the landing is the hard part.. 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. The body of Valento at the request of his aged mother, was taken to San Francisco on Friday and quietly buried in that city. 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. It is situated on Santa Rosa Creek, at the foot of the Sonoma Mountains, 50 miles (80 km) north-northwest of San Francisco. Inquiry at all the local cemeteries brought the response that neither of the gangsters had been interred there, so the assumption is that burial was held in another city, possibly San Francisco. on the back---it is an AZO card. 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. 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. All of those wordy introductions were necessary to provide context as to what happened at about 11:15 on the night of December 9, 1920, when three men from Healdsburg rang the doorbell at the county jail (heres a direct link to that part of the story to jog your memory). The motor cars he sells you at his Healdsburg auto shop have got the gears that run for years before they stall and stop. One of the first to suggest such a subscription. or call using the numbers below, Lunch & Dinner Series by Culinary Management, PSC proposes new testing fees for Advanced Manufacturing programs, PSC announces proposed lab fees changes for Health Science programs, PSC nursing students crowned 2023 Homecoming Queen and King. Through both the brilliant planning and great good luck, everything went off perfectly. I helped pull on one of the ropes and it was quite a job to get him off the ground. After a day and night in which the lynching tree in Rural cemetery was unguarded, and curiosity seekers removed most of the bark and many of the smaller limbs, the caretaker of the cemetery stationed a guard over it, and has stopped further abuse of the tree at the hands of souvenir seekers. Young, and by his wife, who had come to Healdsburg to be present when he arrived. One of the most notorious Santa Rosa County lynchings was the March 14, 1919, murder of military veteran Bud Johnson. Mr. Young is an active business man and before he entered into the auto game with the Stephens car his friends knew that he must have satisfied himself perfectly as to the merits of the machine before taking it up and recommending it to his friends. The bodies of George Boyd and Terry Fitts were removed Saturday from the morgue where they had been since being brought in early Friday morning following the lynching, according to officials late Saturday night, who declined to give any further information relative to their disposal. While most lynchings involved hangings, lynchings include any premediated extrajudicial killing by a group. If Santa Rosa policemen had arrived while the vigilantes were inside the jail seizing the gangsters, would they have surrendered or started a shootout? He had a salesmans type-A personality and was forceful in convincing others of his views. So off they went to Santa Rosa in a dozen (or so) cars with plans for all to convene at the Rural Cemetery. They then tied Johnson to a tree trunk and burned him alive, according to the deposition. Young stopped his car and discovered that the gesticulating gent had a companion near an automobile which they had left standing at the side of the highway. 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. Coroner Phillips also had another reason to keep the location secret: He told the Call he wanted to make sure they did not fall into the hands of some medical college. His concern wasnt that the Fitts sisters and Boyds mom would sell their cadavers to Stanford Medical School most likely it would be pseudoscience enthusiasts hiring bodysnatchers. From the Argus-Courier: While the sisters were with Welti brainstorming about Plan B, obstacles also arose about what to do with George Boyds corpse. That would be a large field to plow even at a capital murder trial, but the coroner crammed it all into a single session and called just five witnesses. Dec. 12. There wont be one word said. There is not a mention of the killing of 13-year-old Andy Lopez on Oct. 22, 2013 by Deputy Sheriff Erick Gelhaus. With Patteson as bailiff of the superior court, Marvin Robinson will be freed for general work throughout the county. He therefore refused to give the Call any information on the subject and does not see why it was sought at this time. 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. They probably will be put under a charge today. Ninety-five percent of the people were in favor after it happened., In a February 2015 column, LeBaron remarked on, the paternalism that ruled in the 19thand 20thcenturies Obviously, the system wasnt perfect. Sunday, January 5, 1986 5, 1988 t m Gaye LeBaron People it .',fVi Vr. The late Sheriff Petray, killed by the San Francisco gangsters was a well-beloved Knight and extended the invitation to the grand lodge to hold their encampment in Santa Rosa at the 1920 meeting. After the three gangsters were hung there were still loose threads to address and knots to untangle. LeBaron: Did your parents know you went? He was also . 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. [End of transcript] In early March, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors honored retiringPress Democratreporter Gaye LeBaron for chronicling the people, culture and history of Sonoma County.. Conspicuous among the crowds were many women and children, CASSASSA ARRESTED They drilled again on Wednesday night and made a final run-through on Thursday before leaving for the county jail in Santa Rosa. The gaggle of self-appointed executioners, who, according to contemporaneous newspaper reports, included San Francisco lawmen, jerked on the ropes, jeering obscenities. RPPC postcard AZO back. 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.. Maynard was the subject of a Velvet Hammer profile, which was considered something of a badge of honor in the county. Kathleen's focus is minimal intervention winemaking, sustainable farming, and eco-friendly practices (including a . Inquiries at the local cemeteries brought the response that the bodies had not been interred in any of them, and it was also said that the bodies were not shipped from Santa Rosa by train on either railroad line here. Gee Its Nice Your State is Blue, the War on Abortions Still Coming for You. 112, s. 2022 mula sa Malacaang. Fred was absolutely no relation to Maynard Young; their common name is a coincidence.2 That Fred would be the mastermind ends this long story with an unexpected twist because he was such a surprising candidate to plan and lead the mission. That Boyd might be an alias of the slayer developed yesterday when the crowd were passing through the morgue. 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 . 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. (Complete article is transcribed in chapter seven), 15 MACHINES RUSH OFFICERS AVENGERS TO SANTA ROSA JAIL Several of these masks were brought to Santa Rosa by a member of the Democrat staff, and are now on exhibition at this office. 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. Each man knew his role and was expected to act without supervision. 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