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. Santa Rosa Homes for Sale $683,937; Petaluma Homes for Sale $869,631; Rohnert Park Homes for Sale $653,202; Sebastopol Homes for Sale $1,024,191; Windsor Homes for Sale $750,507; Healdsburg Homes for Sale $1,012,455; There is not a mention of the killing of 13-year-old Andy Lopez on Oct. 22, 2013 by Deputy Sheriff Erick Gelhaus. As Maynard was driving back from the town of Sonoma he saw them hitchhiking. 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. In 1876, nightriders broke into county jail and hanged murder suspect, Charles Henley. The Captain finished by telling the men to meet back at the same building. Since her beatification, a feast day in her honor was added in 1729 to the Roman Catholic Church but . 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. The Republicans photo is shown below. It was a little before twilight when the whirring of the engines of Freds airplane told of his coming. That three such men should have been laid low by a worthless human rat is worse than shocking; it is horrible, appalling. The letter to LeBaron about Ray Lattin stated there was no question he was at the jail that night specifically for his part in the operation.. Community coalitions like this are springing up all over the country, Mosley said. More than a dozen of the masks used by the gang were found scattered along the edges of the highway between Santa Rosa and Healdsburg. Service. For more information see, Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 (Duke, 2006) Skip to main content. A previous chapter, VENGEANCE FOR SUNNY JIM covered events of just that night as reported at the time by first-hand witnesses. If Santa Rosa policemen had arrived while the vigilantes were inside the jail seizing the gangsters, would they have surrendered or started a shootout? Santa Rosa, city, seat (1854) of Sonoma county, western California, U.S. HEALDSBURG TO HAVE BIG SHOW People become so desensitized and we have to remind them of the struggle if were to move forward, and thats for people of all colors and races., The focus of these early meetings is to get people talking about race and ethnicity, Mosley said. If you accept the echoed word of Mr. Maynard Young; youre sure to bite, the car is right, you simply cant be stung. A ProQuest search of LeBarons columns in thePress Democratfrom 1994 to the present reveals hundreds of stories glorifying white men wielding badges, batons, guns, and in some instances, hanging nooses. 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. 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. We exonerate the sheriff and his deputies from any blame therewith. 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. What are some spooky and fun things to do around Halloween time? She is 70 years of age and is near collapse. 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. ), Meanwhile, souvenir hunters continued to assail the hanging tree at the Rural Cemetery collecting and treasuring mementos of the murders. You dropped a ring there, didnt you? Maynard was asked. Lebarons retelling of the lynching of George Boyd, Terry Fitts and Spanish Charley Valento was not in the least bit sympathetic toward the dead men, who appear to have been rather vicious criminals, members of the Howard Street gang in San Francisco, who reportedly raped two women the day before Thanksgiving. As with the start on the previous day, sufficient momentum was not obtained for the big plane to rise above the telegraph wires, and Fred resorted to his trick of that day to dive beneath the wires. City is Quiet Today After Hanging; No Clue to Avengers. Type image Format Photographs. The . Victims of the 1920 lynching in Santa Rosa, CA. Young recognised them when they hailed him and brought them to the county jail without warning of his intention. II, page 81 bottom right.This photograph is contained in one of two volumes by Dobbin titled "Album of San Francisco."Night view of three men hanging from a tree in Santa Rosa Cemetery. The budget office ensures that program managers, based on the availability of revenues, receive the resources needed to operate effectively and efficiently. on the back---it is an AZO card. Reviews on Cemetery in Santa Rosa, CA - Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery, Santa Rosa Memorial Park, Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Chapel Of The Chimes Cem/Crema, Daniels Chapel of the Roses Funeral Home and Crematory, Windsor Healdsburg Mortuary & Crematory, Valley Memorial Park, Pleasant Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary, Shiloh District Cemetery, Sebastopol Memorial Lawn Cemetery Location. The places that harbor such criminals must be closed up, and kept closed. A copy of the photograph of the lynching taken at the direction of The Press Democrat early Friday morning was made into post cards by an enterprising man in San Francisco under an alleged copyright, and thousands disposed of before the police ordered the sale stopped. Is hiding a crime a crime? For the rest of Ernest Finleys life, not a word about it would reappear in his newspaper. 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. A great crowd of home folks was at the field to see him start. 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. In early March, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors honored retiringPress Democratreporter Gaye LeBaron for chronicling the people, culture and history of Sonoma County.. They based their belief on resemblance Boyd had for a family by the name of Riley who lived here a score of years past and who conducted a restaurant. A photo of the men hanging from the tree became an object of curiosity all over California and earned Santa Rosa a reputation as a tough frontier town.. It was two weeks to Christmas; there was shopping to do and dinners to plan. Charles Valentos mother in San Francisco was quickly found, although the 70 year-old woman was reportedly unaware of her sons recent infamy. Cleanliness. There was almost a romantic air about this tree, because the retribution was carried out by an orderly mobretributive justice, carried out more quickly than the ponderous law could have acted., But winds of opinion were shifting. 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. THE VELVET HAMMER The grand dream of making the entire U.S. accessible was realized in 1926 with the creation of Route 66. Within minutes, the hapless trio were trucked to the cemetery. 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. And it took him quite a while to asphyxiate, by not breaking his neck, he said. (UPDATE: Ray has now published his findings and it can be revealed the gravesite is at Moke 234.). Identifier (C)001381619CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVV-4878 Subject Lynchings--California--Santa Rosa Santa Rosa (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Place California Santa Rosa Santa Rosa (Calif.) Maynard Young of Healdsburg was here yesterday and madr arrangements with the directors of the Sonoma County Fair for exhibit space for Healdsburg and Dry Creek valley districts. 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. veterans monument. Nine African-Americans were lynched in Santa Rosa County from 1884 to 1937. Patteson is well known through out the county. 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 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. She was prevented by illness from attending the session according to a report received by the other directors. One director stated that the site for the Grand Army plot given that organization was selected on account of the presence of the shade the big locust tree would afford at similar exercises to those held on Decoration Day. 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. Gov. He narrowly lost an election for Cloverdale constable in 1918 but was appointed a reserve deputy sheriff for the town, which gave him a badge. Casassa died in 1923 before his case went to trial, but at the time of his arrest the Press Democrat commented. 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. In March of 2021, President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, making lynching a federal hate crime. And now that the community has had its lesson, shall we profit by it, or merely go along in the same old way? 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. 2022. Southwest Santa Rosa Center. They make few contributions to the other fellows ear. 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. It was 1:15 in the morning when Dr. Phillips phone rang at his home in Petaluma. Less than three months after the men were hanged, Sheriff Boyes hired Harry as a full-time deputy sheriff and Superior Court bailiff. 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.. 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. In May 2000, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights investigated Sonoma County, reporting, The committee is appalled at the number of deadly incidents, justified or not, that have occurred within 25 months. 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 is not the place for such cattle to congregate. 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. The Captain anticipated there might be an attempt to capture them after the lynching via roadblocks, ordering some of the men to return via Coffey Lane or other roads; would a 40-something Alexander Valley farmer have maintained his composure if stopped by a patrolman and asked, why are you out this late with a shotgun in your car?. It was a lie. 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). Located 1.5 hours north of San Francisco in Central Sonoma County, the city of Santa Rosa offers numerous wineries, a wildlife park, its own symphony, and the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts. 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. Mr. Patteson is the son of the late Supervisor Patteson. For inquiries regarding Title IX and the Colleges nondiscrimination policies, contact the Executive Director, Institutional Equity and Student Conduct at (850) 484-1759, Pensacola State College, 1000 College Blvd., Pensacola, Florida 32504. After the three gangsters were hung there were still loose threads to address and knots to untangle. King, the wonder dog owned and trained by Ray Lattin of Alexander valley, amazed hundreds of guests with his ability to add, subtract, select a beauty queen and intelligently obey the slightest command of Lattin at the opening of a Santa Rosa cafe Tuesday night. Members of the mob would pull him up and then let him down again and again, according to the NAACP deposition. San Luis Obispo (/ s n l u s b s p o /; Spanish: [san lwis oispo]; Spanish for 'St. Louis the Bishop'; Chumash: tihini) is a city and county seat of San Luis Obispo County, in the U.S. state of California.Located on the Central Coast of California, San Luis Obispo is roughly halfway between the San Francisco Bay Area in the north and Greater Los Angeles in the south. 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. 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. Santa Rosa is full of local neighborhoods, art, and historic districts. The public snatched up postcards of the lynched gangsters being sold in San Francisco and the fellow who bootleged the photo earned approx. During WWI, Young was on the three-member draft board covering most of Sonoma county, a job he took very seriously; in 1918 he paid a condolence call on the family of a dead soldier. This piece first appeared in The Bohemian. 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. The ladies rest room is fitted up attractively, and is conveniently located near the front of the building. 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 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. Further strength is given to the theory that members of the mob were from San Francisco by the report from Coroner Frank H. Phillips, who reported that he met from 15 to 20 automobiles headed south on the highway while he was driving from Petaluma to Santa Rosa to take charge of the bodies of the three men lynched. 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. It was a shocking affair, and created more feeling than has previously been manifested in Sonoma county for a long time. 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. After the end of the war he stayed in the service as personnel adjutant at the base there was no leadership experience apparent in his military record. 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 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. We now know that Coroner Phillips had lied to the reporter. Mosley is an associate professor in PSCs History, Language and Social Sciences Department. We could have had 500 men, if wed wanted them, Barney told Gaye in 1985. He was confident enough in his crew that he stayed among those in the office with the sheriff. DEC. 10 1920 SANTA ROSA CAL. He reiterated what he had previously told her, adding names and details. 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. Rather, they decided to hide the identity of a man who had confessed to participating in three brutal homicides. 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. Petaluma Daily Morning Courier, December 11, 1920. The website fails to mention that Gelhaus fired eight shots into the child, Lopez, nor does it breathe a word about any of the many homicides committed by deputies empowered by the prerogatives of whiteness to terrorize and kill members of disempowered groups. In addition to wiring and telephoning in the news the Santa Rosa Republican rushed 100 copies of the extra editions to the United News Agents, San Francisco. And until the remains were shipped out of the county or securely buried, there was a clear and apparent risk that someone might try to get access to the corpses or even steal them. Boyd shot Petray and two of his deputies dead on the spot. 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. Freds father was long the towns mortician and when he died at the close of 1919, Fred inherited the funeral home and the job. 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. On that night Sunday, Dec. 5 a mob of up to 3,000 had attacked the jail to seize them but the sheriff and deputies, reinforced by the Santa Rosa police and fire departments, were able to repel the rioters. The Community Remembrance Project Coalition is a partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative of Montgomery, Alabama. . That of Boyd is still in the hands of the coroner and is safely hidden away somewhere in the county. It was so well organized. But the closer you examine the story, it becomes apparent everything hinged not just upon a single person but also primarily a place the Standard Machine Works. 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. It did not, of course, go away. Nobody will think you a coward. On his way home Mr. Young stopped at the country home of former Sheriff and Mrs. J. K. Smith at Knights Landing and found them comfortably installed in a nice home. Santa Rosa hums with activity, centered downtown, where fabulous shopping, restaurants, and a craft brewery are all found. Asked what she would do now if someone came into her office and confessed to a murder, she said, I would call the authorities.Press Democrateditor Rick Green did not respond to a query about the papers policy on granting anonymity in stories about a confessed murderer. 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. 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. And that was before she made a tape recording of the confession. In fact, the obscene photograph, festooned with pieces of the nooses, was the centerpiece of a display in the Sheriffs Office created shortly after the lynching, according to historical newspaper reports. City Recorder C. N. Collins has already started action so far as his court is concerned by inflicting jail sentences for drunkenness. For this reason, his many brother Knights and friends from other sections of the state, were especially interested in the collection. One of the lynching sites is just a block away from the college.. And so the blitzkrieg attack began, wrapping up under ten minutes later with the gangsters tied and gagged and being chauffeured to their doom. You have to think about the times we were in. We were a small rural county; Santa Rosas population was 8,758, almost exactly the size of Cloverdale today (2021). 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.). Mr. Patteson is a well known mechanican [sic] and has had much experience in garages and machine works here. The lynching crew did not want to find deputies and policemen guarding the jail door, as happened at the Sunday night riot. NO S. F. POLICE AT SANTA ROSA LYNCHING. Then his eyes caught another ring, and another, and another; then a dainty little pendant, set in opals and pearls rolled out onto the floor, apparently from nowhere. In 1990, the sheriff created the Gang Team, which, notably, included Erick Gelhaus. Rumors flew. 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. In 2020, Santa Rosa, CA had a population of 178k people with a median age of 39.6 and a median household income of $80,472. Petaluma Campus. 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. The mother is residing in Australia. Home Values By City. He was arrested for stabbing another man to death following a card game at the Los Gatos Saloon. 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. 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 group held its first meeting in January. Pieces of the hanging ropes and chunks of the tree were passed down as family heirlooms. At the time of the interview, Barnard requested anonymity. Gee Its Nice Your State is Blue, the War on Abortions Still Coming for You. Conspicuous among the crowds were many women and children, CASSASSA ARRESTED A fund was started to preserve the tree and install a plaque so that it will be a perpetual reminder to desperadoes, gangsters and gunmen that death is a certain penalty for such murderous attacks.. 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. George Matthews, chief of police, is on the warpath and indicates that the bootleggers will not merely go into cover for a few days and then open up again. Other civic duties included being on the executive committee of the county Board of Trade and after Petray was murdered he served as treasurer of the Petray Memorial Committee. 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