950 S. Wright Road Santa Rosa, CA 95407-6608 (707) 527-4229. By all odds the most sensational event that ever took place in the history of the county, it was treated by this newspaper accordingly. This piece first appeared in The Bohemian. The company has a lease of the Hiatt garage, on West street and the machinery is being installed this week. Capturing eyeballs, the front page featured a photograph of the dead men hanging limply, necks horribly askew, clothed only in soiled long underwear. SAN FRANCISCO POLICEMEN IN LYNCH PARTY, IS REPORT. News reports from the time are sketchy and often contradictory, and there are numerous reports and theories on what happened. Beginning in the 1990s, the countys non-white categories rapidly increased, climbing toward a majority of the population. He unfortunately mentioned this to a Press Democrat reporter when he arrived at the county jail; the newspaper took it as evidence that the lynching party came from San Francisco and most papers in the city chased that angle for days, although it was already pretty clear the vigilantes came from Healdsburg or points north. 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. 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. Open in Google Maps . In 1985, thePress Democratrepublished the macabre photograph to complement LeBarons recounting of the deed. By 1949, the ropey loops had been moved to the Freemasons Scottish Rite Temple. 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. 6. AskUs@pensacolastate.edu Nobody will think you a coward. 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. 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. What emerges is that he and his family seemed to spend time with others who likewise came from Alexander Valley. 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. Fitts two sisters requested Coroner Phillips to cover the face of their brother in the morgue from the view of the morbid crowd and their wish was heeded. He knew Sheriffs Petray and Smith personally. Making less than 5,000 cases of pinot noir, chardonnay, and pinot gris, Inman Wines is a true 'boutique' winery. Young recognised them when they hailed him and brought them to the county jail without warning of his intention. Cassassa [sic] is a pioneer grape-grower and winemaker of Sonoma county and is well to do. 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. SANTA ROSA. The sympathy of the entire community will be extended to the relatives and friends of the three brave officers who were murdered here Sunday. The Santa Rosa Lynching. Last year I went to the Haunted HayRide LA, at it was PERFECT. Santa Clara: California: 1883: Murder: Encarnacin Garca was a nephew of the bandido Tiburcio Vsquez. There was also a chance that yahoos might decide a single lynching wasnt good enough and seek to mutilate the bodies. He had a salesmans type-A personality and was forceful in convincing others of his views. Southwest Santa Rosa Center. We could have had 500 men, if wed wanted them, Barney told Gaye in 1985. Snyder said there is no California lawexemptinga reporter from the duty to report knowledge of a crime to law enforcement. There have been various rumors relative to the final disposal of the bodies of the gangsters. 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 . Sonoma Co Sheriff Sheriff killed, 1920 In 1920, the gunning down of Sheriff Jim Petray and two San Francisco lawmen, followed by the public lynching of the three suspects, gave Santa Rosa a statewide reputation as being a tough, frontier town. DEC. 10 1920 SANTA ROSA CAL. 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. SUBMIT ILLICIT DISCHARGE REPORT . (And for that matter, were they secretly armed?) 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. Auto and tractor owners of Northern Sonoma county have been compelled heretofore to send to San Francisco for repair work of the kind that the new company is prepared to do, and the enterprise will meet a present and growing need in this section. In the petition another sister, Mrs. Cecil Riley of Santa Rosa, joined, and Fitts face was covered while a crowd of 3000, including women with babies in arms, viewed his body and those of George Boyd and Charles Valento. Within days of his demise, LeBaron outed him as the lyncher in thePress Democrat with his daughters permission, she says. According to LeBaron, Petray was a role model for the young people, an honest cop and an ideal family man. She failed to mention that Petray had himself spent three years on the lam, sought for the 1894 killing of an elderly man, whom he admitted to battering. On the other hand, theres a journalism ethics question. Even before dawn, people in town were stripping it of bark, snapping off limbs and even pulling up the grass. This was done at the request of relatives. J.C. Evans: Oct. 3 or 4, 1937*. Harvest Festivals, Pumpkin patches, mazes, hayrides, haunted house? The Urban Hotspot. Santa Rosa, CA 95401-4395 (707) 527-4011. He has been associated with his brother, Don Patteson, in the auto business at the Standard Machine Shop. of hard-core sociopaths like Boyd and Fitts surely would offer proof of their crackpot theories. 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. Finding Terry Fitts relatives was likewise easy as he was from Santa Rosa and his two sisters were well known, one of them still living in the area. 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 . 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. 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. It is understood that they sought to have the burial in the Fitts family plot in Odd Fellows cemetery here, but that the management of the cemetery refused to permit it, claiming that such action was justified by their rules and regulations. Its likely many of the Healdsburg vigilantes were also on the scene and came away with the lesson that brute force was no guarantee of success. The lawlessness of the thing is what appalls me, was District Attorney George W. Hoyles statement early this morning when informed of the lynching. UC/Berkeley still has the largest collection with the remains of over 8,000 individuals, including entire skeletons. The last Santa Rosa County lynching took place in 1937. TheBohemianreached out to attorney David Snyder of the First Amendment Coalition, a public interest organization created to protect and promote freedom of expression and the peoples right to know.. [A version of this story appeared in the SF Chronicle Dec. 19 under the headline, BODIES OF TWO THUGS TAKEN FROM MORGUE]. 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. Gee Its Nice Your State is Blue, the War on Abortions Still Coming for You. While copies were delivered to all the major towns in the county, its worth noting the official census count for Santa Rosa that year was 8,758. The Captain finished by telling the men to meet back at the same building. 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. 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. 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. We exonerate the sheriff and his deputies from any blame therewith. It is said that the man cleared up $500 in the transaction. He began his hearing with a program calling for the testimony of county jail officials and any witnesses who might be found, to tell of the actual lynching of George Boyd, Terence Fitts and Charles Valento. Snyder suggested that theNew York Timeswasnotethically compelled to volunteer Daniel Ellsbergs name to the FBI when he gave reporters top secret files purloined from the RAND Corporation, known as the Pentagon Papers. LeBaron: Were you the only one in your family? Santa Rosa hums with activity, centered downtown, where fabulous shopping, restaurants, and a craft brewery are all found. Victims of the 1920 lynching in Santa Rosa, CA. 680 Sonoma Mtn. He is in a measure responsible for the safe keeping of the bodies until such time as they are interred, the San Francisco Call reported after speaking with Phillips. City Recorder C. N. 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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. HANGMANS TREE REMOVAL PRAISED BY CLUBWOMEN AND OPPOSED BY CEMETERY BOARD. 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. 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. All day long Sunday there was a stream of automobiles passing along the cemetery road, the curious occupants seeking a view of the tree on which the gangsters were lynched Friday morning. Now lets crack this nut and see whats inside. In 1990, the sheriff created the Gang Team, which, notably, included Erick Gelhaus. 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. 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. We managed to overlook so much, LeBaron said. Patteson is universally known in this section, and his selection will meet with popular approval. It is also definitely known by the Petaluma information sent here that there were Healdsburg people in the party. The Press Democrat, which regularly ran glance at the past type nostalgia columns, never mentioned the lynching in years to come. 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.. My God, no! said Hoyle when he was first informed of the lynching from The Press Democrat office at 2:30 this morning. George Boyd, Terence Fitts, and Charles Valento were hanged for killing three law officers. We Have Had Our Lesson; Shall We Profit by It? According to research by Tuskegee University, there were 1,297 lynchings of white people and 3,446 lynchings of African Americans. You will find antiques, unique shops, coffee houses, and restaurants. Those who have long been suspected of breaking the law in various ways will he rounded up without delay, so that there can not be any possibility in future of the town, or anyone in it, harboring such desperate criminals as the three now in jail. The gruesome collection reminiscent of the late triple lynching here, drew the greatest attention from the visitors. Between 2019 and 2020 the population of Santa Rosa, CA declined from 179,701 to 178,391, a 0.729% decrease and its median household income grew from $75,630 to $80,472, a 6.4% increase. It was 1:15 in the morning when Dr. Phillips phone rang at his home in Petaluma. 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. Listening to the hissy tape, the name is unclear, but it was probably jail house. Perhaps the transcriber had a sense of the uncanny. In 1920, of course, a great many around here had some sort of connections to Petray or his deputies. 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. 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. Boyd shot Petray and two of his deputies dead on the spot. They drilled again on Wednesday night and made a final run-through on Thursday before leaving for the county jail in Santa Rosa. It is asserted that all of the directors in attendance at the meeting expressed themselves us protesting against the action of Mrs. Frank C. Newman president of the Board, in ordering the tree cut down early Tuesday morning before Memorial Day exercises started. The vigilantes supposedly were all San Francisco policemen a belief pushed as all-but-certain by most SF papers. Santa Rosa is the perfect mid-trip stopping point between Dallas and Phoenix. He will retain his residence in Healdsburg while serving on the sheriffs force. The Community Remembrance Project Coalition is a partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative of Montgomery, Alabama. Between memberships in churches, fraternal groups like the Elks and extended families through marriage, probably everyone in the county was no more than two degrees of separation from a man with a badge. Erick Gelhaus is the name of the deputy who killed Andy Lopez. They then tied Johnson to a tree trunk and burned him alive, according to the deposition. For a half-hour or more before making his landing, Fred treated his friends to an exhibition of his skill as an aviator, in stunts that even Beachey of fair-time days would have hesitated to attempt. 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. Both bodies of course have been embalmed. An airplane was commissioned in Sacramento to fly here in poor visibility conditions to fetch their image. 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. All he would admit was they were still somewhere in the county. His wartime assignment was as a flight instructor in Southern California. 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. 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. We note, emphatically, that white and race are sociopolitical constructs andnotrooted in meaningful biological differences. Barnard bragged about terrorizing Valento, who was a dark-skinned man of Latino descent, saying, he just reared back against the bars and on the side. Charles Schulz was a man destined to create comic strips and animated cartoons and the Charles Schulz Museum uncovers. 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. 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. The new South Santa Rosa Clinic, located at 2285 Challenger Way, is the culmination of years of work. asking for its removal (she never produced the letter) and that she had the approval of all the womens clubs in Santa Rosa; the tree was a reminder of an episode which it were best for our community that we and the world quickly forget, the federation of the clubs wrote. 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. Santa Rosa Junior College is a vibrant cultural center in Santa Rosa, California, offering exciting athletic events, concerts, lectures, culinary delights, and both music and theatre performances. 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. For example: All of the vigilantes had loaded weapons but were they really prepared to use them? Deputy Coroner Frank Welti created a mild sensation here this morning when he announced that the bodies of Terrance Fitts and Geo. 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. 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. Santa Rosa, city, seat (1854) of Sonoma county, western California, U.S. 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. A mob formed and put a noose around his neck and hung him from a tree. In addition, minority populations have increased. Shops were deserted and business was virtually suspended. Tell Me When Systemic Racism Ended? As noted earlier, souvenir hunters were cutting off bits of the lynching ropes and ripping bark off the hanging tree, but relics from their actual persons locks of hair, bits of clothing, blood wiped off skin would be far more valuable. When he was arrested for running a speakeasy that day he was told it was specifically because he had welcomed Fitts and the others at his place on Guerneville Road. No matter how careful the gravediggers were, they would have left a muddy mess. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 21. (Complete article is transcribed in chapter seven), 15 MACHINES RUSH OFFICERS AVENGERS TO SANTA ROSA JAIL 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. The current position of SANTA ROSA is at East Mediterranean reported 1 min ago by AIS. He was Don and Harry Pattesons brother-in-law and when Supervisor Ned Patteson was dying he acted as spokesman for the family. About 3,000 people (including children) queued outside the Welti mortuary on the corner of Fourth and E to see the bodies of the three gangsters lying in the cold room. Heres How We Fix That. At the cemetery the nooses were already knotted and securely anchored around the locust tree. 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. LeBarons account of the 1920 lynching is featured on theHistory pageof the Sonoma County Sheriffs website. Nice communities dont try to batter down the jailhouse door or parade by the thousands through a morgue. The machine lighted in the Noonan field, where it was met by a representative with the picture. Young gathered this up also. They were brought to the county jail, where they gave their names and occupations as Walt Connors and F. Mulhall, masseurs at Burkes. So off they went to Santa Rosa in a dozen (or so) cars with plans for all to convene at the Rural Cemetery. One of the most notorious Santa Rosa County lynchings was the March 14, 1919, murder of military veteran Bud Johnson. He therefore refused to give the Call any information on the subject and does not see why it was sought at this time. As they were meeting right after the lynching, the Coroner and Sheriff Boyes might have heard some of the otherwise well-disciplined (and well-armed) vigilantes had to be talked out of shooting up the corpses as they swung at the end of ropes. A dozen automobiles, before daylight, circled the Plaza, tooting horns, blowing sirens and making a huge racket which woke up the town. nor does his language leave them in obscurity or doubt. SISTERS PLEA SAVES FITTS FACE FROM MORGUE EXPOSURE. 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