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. They were brought to the county jail, where they gave their names and occupations as Walt Connors and F. Mulhall, masseurs at Burkes. Then there was the plan by Santa Rosa authorities to conceal what happened to the bodies out of concern for grave robbers. 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. These community events are where we start the conversation.. That would be particularly true in the village-sized community of Healdsburg, where Petray came from one of the prune-growing family dynasties of Alexander Valley. Santa Rosa is the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States. It is also said that relatives of Fitts intended to claim his body and give it interment. The town centre is only 1 km away, the capital in 6 km and to the airport only 12 km. Barnard eagerly helped with the hanging, You have to drag him off the ground, see. (The 1900 census shows a Mary Riley living at 856 Second St. with her son Victor, who was the same age as Boyd. In one story from his book, which he says is typical, vigilantes in Santa Rosa lynched 3 men around midnight on December 10th, 1920. . Santa Rosa cannot afford to be known as a hang-out for criminals and moral degenerates. 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. MAYNARD YOUNG would be the top contender to play the role of the Captain, if that part was not otherwise cast. Within days of his demise, LeBaron outed him as the lyncher in thePress Democrat with his daughters permission, she says. 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. For a century the complex story of what happened here in December 1920 has been pared down to its bones. Oakland Police Department: Above the Law? He was confident enough in his crew that he stayed among those in the office with the sheriff. By all odds the most sensational event that ever took place in the history of the county, it was treated by this newspaper accordingly. That three such men should have been laid low by a worthless human rat is worse than shocking; it is horrible, appalling. Arriving at the jail, he invited the boys inside. She reported that an anonymous member of the lynching party, who was in his early 20s when he joined the group, had visited her office and confessed to the crime, because his conscience told him, not that the act was wrong, but that history should be made accurate.. If no claim is made on the body it will be buried in potters field. Such was the hunger for this salacious news that thePress Democratprinted extras. It takes several men to drag a man up. Cassassa is a pioneer grape-grower and winemaker of Sonoma county and is well to do. Santa Rosa Republican as reprinted in the Sacramento Bee, December 10, 1920. A San Francisco history magazine observed, The entire episode became a curious source of civic pride.. Russian River Brewery and Third St. Aleworks are two of the city's big breweries, both located in the downtown district, and locals line up, sometimes down the street, for their specialty crafted brews. A long line waited patiently for the reopening, San Francisco Chronicle, December 11 1920. Listening to the hissy tape, the name is unclear, but it was probably jail house. Perhaps the transcriber had a sense of the uncanny. The tree in question, a towering locust, was planted many years ago. gang came to Santa Rosa; Image / Santa Rosa, 1920: S.F. T' Timomy Bakw TTIew locust tree grown from the stump of the 1920 'Hanging Tree' in Rural Cemetery arking up the wrong tree . The places that harbor such criminals must be closed up, and kept closed. He was elected County Coroner from 1926 to 1940 when he retired because of ill health. lynching, a form of violence in which a mob, under the pretext of administering justice without trial, executes a presumed offender, often after inflicting torture and corporal mutilation. Poppa who passed away 31 days before his son was lynched was buried in the family plot in the Odd Fellows cemetery just a short walk from the hangmans tree. Even if he was the Captain he probably would have needed help assembling his militia, as he mostly had been away for three years (before being drafted, Fred was working in Arizona). Below are thumbnail introductions to three of them, plus another man who we know was among the vigilantes. But if you stay, from now on, were all one. Barney repeated much the same thing in his 1989 interview, except changing the speech to end with, after tonight, weve got an active war.. 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 lawlessness of the thing is what appalls me, was District Attorney George W. Hoyles statement early this morning when informed of the lynching. Long lines of curious citizens passed through the morgue, where the three dead men lay on plain marble slabs. 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.) Sure, they replied. The last Santa Rosa County lynching took place in 1937. Without questioning the lads. Community coalitions like this are springing up all over the country, Mosley said. Before they left, Barnard recalled the Captain saying, If any one of you wants to back out, this is the time. 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.. 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. Practically the entire day was spent in this manner and Hoyle said it was the first step he would make in carrying out his official duties in connection with the case. 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. Contributing Institutions; Collections; Exhibitions; About; Claremont Colleges Library Ken Gonzales-Day Collection; Santa Rosa, 1920: S.F. Bianchi Boy and Companion, Each 14 Years of Age, Arrested Once More; Pockets Are Found Full of Money and Jewelry. The lynching tree, as it became known all over the nation after the news of the hanging was broadcasted from Santa Rosa, was always a first attraction to visitors in Santa Rosa. 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. This was the last lynching to take place in Sonoma County. One of the most notorious Santa Rosa County lynchings was the March 14, 1919, murder of military veteran Bud Johnson. The dog, to be shown at the coming Petaluma Dog Show, November 2223, astounded spectators by identifying figures chalked on a blackboard and barking the numbers, in addition to presenting a routine of unusual tricks. 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. 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. 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. She was prevented by illness from attending the session according to a report received by the other directors. Some people muffle their remarks so neighbors cannot hear. Nine African-Americans were lynched in Santa Rosa County from 1884 to 1937. Public Safety Training Center. Santa Clara: California: 1883: Murder: Encarnacin Garca was a nephew of the bandido Tiburcio Vsquez. Pieces of the hanging ropes and chunks of the tree were passed down as family heirlooms. LeBaron, 86, has also not reported on killings by Sonoma County law enforcers, a fact that she acknowledged in an interview with theBohemianlast week. During the 1920s and early 1930s he ran the prestigious Cummiskey vineyards and ranches near Hopland and Windsor. The coroner stated that he feels that he is in a measure responsible for the safe keeping of the bodies until such time as they are interred and he does not propose to have the bodies the object of morbid curiosity or perhaps fall into the hands of some medical college. A Dangerous Fishing Expedition: The Select Committee on China, Spying on Muslims, Good; Spying on Christians, Bad, Climate Code Red Analysis and Sea Level Warnings, On the Great Resignation: Interrogating the Neoliberal Narrative, Nichole Stephens, Administrative Assistant. Asked if he planned to impanel a grand jury, he replied: I cant call a session until I have evidence to put before them., After the inquest, charges were also dropped against poor Dorothy Quinlan, although she was never accused of anything more serious than having bad taste in men. 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. This collection, which is on display in the sheriffs office, includes a large photograph of the three hanging to the tree; the gun which fired the fatal shots, empty cartridges, the hangmens knots cut from the ropes, and other articles. 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. Valento was buried at San Francisco Saturday, privately. FITTS BURIED The new South Santa Rosa Clinic, located at 2285 Challenger Way, is the culmination of years of work. Healdsburg received its first visit from an airplane Saturday, when Lieutenant Fred Young dropped out of the sky into his home town, making a landing at the ball grounds, where on many occasions as schoolboy Fred had contested on the diamond and in athletic events. 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. This was no bitter, hotblooded revenge. 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. He crashed into a barn and destroyed the government flying machine but was unhurt. 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. 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. LeBaron and her editors could have told Barnard, Stop talking! The unlikely Captain, part II: If Fred was called the Captain it was an honorific; he was in the Army during WWI with his highest rank as a Lieutenant, promoted because he scored well on a test. It will not replace the existing VA clinic at 3841 Brickway Blvd. Don C. Patteson and Jack Woods are to have a first class machine shop in Healdsburg and it will occupy the back part of the Maynard Young auto sales shop. Nor did he associate with anyone in law enforcement or their offices. 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. Then just a few days after the lynching there was another killing in Santa Rosa. Wine lovers aren't the only ones that get to have fun in Santa Rosa. Their presence is a menace, their very proximity a blight. Maynard Young, who returned from a visit to his Colusa County ranch on Friday night, was here on business Saturday. He circled far above the city, going to a height of about eight thousand feet, and then returning by means of nose dives, glides and apparently end-over-end maneuvers, to within a few hundred feet of the earth. We were a small rural county; Santa Rosas population was 8,758, almost exactly the size of Cloverdale today (2021). He reiterated what he had previously told her, adding names and details. 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. It is the largest city in California's Wine Country and Redwood Coast.It is the fifth most populous city in the Bay Area after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont; and the 25th most populous city in . 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. 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. He lived here 20 years ago.. 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.. Mr. Patteson is a well known mechanican [sic] and has had much experience in garages and machine works here. 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. 3. The company has a lease of the Hiatt garage, on West street and the machinery is being installed this week. She then sent Coroner Phillips word that she would take care of the body. When a forest fire started near Annapolis also in 1918, Jim Petray, acting as deputy fire warden for the district, had Ray organize and supervise the firefighters. Mrs. Emma Kopf was elected to fill the vacancy. 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). Location and Resort The apartment complex is located in Costa Teguise 350m to the beach of Playa Bastian. 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. (LeBaron declined to disclose his name at the time and in her interview with theBohemianlast week.) Even before dawn, people in town were stripping it of bark, snapping off limbs and even pulling up the grass. Since 1980, the California Constitution has shielded journalists who are subpoenaed by law enforcement to turn over unpublished information. Hotel in Santa Rosa. 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.. This piece first appeared in The Bohemian. 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. Established in 2000 by Kathleen Inman, Inman Family Wines released its first vintage in 2002. The PD printed an item on this pilots derring-do flight but editor Ernest Finley, ever the churl, did not mention this was for his rival newspaper. Children decorated school auditoriums with colorful bunting before performing holiday pageants. She made the decision on her own without consulting other directors of the cemeterys board, and all of the other members said they would not have approved of the action. 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. He is the son of a former supervisor, is a prominent business man and is very well known. 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. Now lets crack this nut and see whats inside. He was Don and Harry Pattesons brother-in-law and when Supervisor Ned Patteson was dying he acted as spokesman for the family. But no matter; the jury stuck to its simple mission of determining the causes of death for the officers and the lynched men. He will retain his residence in Healdsburg while serving on the sheriffs force. For the rest of Ernest Finleys life, not a word about it would reappear in his newspaper. Around 3AM Phillips and Welti lowered the bodies to the ground and loaded them into the ambulance wagon. The Chronicle reported, 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. Today it lies in lengths on the ground, while chips from the trunk and pieces of limb are being carried into hundreds of homes in Santa Rosa, and taken far away by interested people as souvenirs. Both terms are derived from the name of Charles Lynch (1736-96), a Virginia planter and . When the undertakers closed for noon lunch the crowd patiently waited for them to reopen at 2 oclock. If Santa Rosa policemen had arrived while the vigilantes were inside the jail seizing the gangsters, would they have surrendered or started a shootout? Yesterday morning, acting on the orders of a woman, Mrs. Frank C. Newman, president of the board of directors of the Rural Cemetery Association, the ax was laid to the roots of the tree. "A statement advocating a violent act such as lynching is abhorrent . 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. He has been associated with his brother, Don Patteson, in the auto business at the Standard Machine Shop. 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. SANTA ROSA. No, there arent any examples (that I can find) of bodysnatchers specifically targeting criminals, but medical schools in Tennessee, Iowa, Virginia, and probably other states were still dependent upon grave robbers to provide cadavers for student dissection. What emerges is that he and his family seemed to spend time with others who likewise came from Alexander Valley. And with that, the mystery of what happened to their bodies begins. It was a lie. His father, C. L. Ned Patteson also served as the popular fourth district Supervisor during the 1910s. In 1876, the third lynching . The identity of the Captain and (most) of the vigilantes will never be known for certain. Patuloy naman ang operasyon ng sumusunod na opisina sa Enero 18: The Republicans photo is shown below. At Santa Rosa the pictures were already at Noonan Field there, through advance arrangement. 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. Robinson has been handicapped in his work since the murder of Sheriff Petray. District Attorney Hoyle spend the day in gathering statements relative to the summary executions of the three gangsters. ), 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. But eugenics also leaned heavily on the notion that some were biologically defective because of bad genes, neurological disorders (particularly epilepsy) or lower intelligence. 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. Instead, that morning they used the Supervisors chambers at the courthouse to hold the coroners inquest.1 But that didnt just focus on the lynching; testimony also covered the vigilante raid on the jail, details of the murder of the lawmen five days earlier and prior doings of the gangsters around Santa Rosa. Nobody wanted to lose their place in line, so stores were empty despite Christmas being only two weeks away. 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. 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. 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. She said that a lawyer for theNew York Times, which owned thePress Democrat, told her to go ahead with the story since a 86-year-old man was not likely to be prosecuted for a 65-year-old crime of that nature. This is the seventh chapter in the series on the 1920 lynchings in Santa Rosa, " 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. Sheriff Petray is buried at Oak Mound Cemetary in Healdsburg. The Standard Machine Works, the new company formed by Don Patteson and L. B. Because this was not an actual trial there was no cross-examination, so Sheriff Boyes wasnt asked why he didnt call the Santa Rosa police chief after he knew the vigilantes were coming, or why he left the front door to the jail unlocked. 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. Ranchers thronged through the streets as if the event were one of carnival nature.. Southwest Santa Rosa Center. It now becomes my duty as district attorney to conduct an investigation to determine, if possible, who are responsible for this lawless act.. Budget. As Maynard was driving back from the town of Sonoma he saw them hitchhiking. We exonerate the sheriff and his deputies from any blame therewith. He will go here and in this county and adjacent territory in his car and will have his salesrooms in Healdsburg, and it will be well equipped. In 1920, of course, a great many around here had some sort of connections to Petray or his deputies. CELEBRATOR STOPS AUTO ON HIGHWAY; SHERIFF IS IN IT. 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. Fitts will be buried by the family, but not in the family plot. 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 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. . Where was the Captain during all this? Those mysteries join a substantial list of what-if scenarios where something could have easily gone awry and many men from Healdsburg could have ended up arrested or even dead. Boyd recently, and providing the liquor for the men on their various visits, it is declared by the arresting officers. Also, it would have been impossible to conceal newly-dug graves. But The People Are More Than Just Winos. 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. Young gathered this up also. A Santa Rosa County School Board candidate running against a longtime incumbent in the August primary publicly proclaimed that doctors who prescribe hormone . (UPDATE: Ray has now published his findings and it can be revealed the gravesite is at Moke 234.). LeBaron: Were you the only one in your family? The next meeting is from 6 to 8 p.m. on March 26. 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. 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. Beginning in the 1990s, the countys non-white categories rapidly increased, climbing toward a majority of the population. He was also considered another possible candidate to fill out the term. Boyd admitted to the officers that he had a sister living in this city many years ago by the name of Riley and that he had visited her several times. Andnotcoincidentally, the rise in police killings mirrors the rise of the Latinx population, according to investigations by federal and local agencies. 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. 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. By 2021, the whiteness quotient plummeted to 62%, replaced mostly by the Latinx category. First Airplane to Visit This City, Piloted by Local Man. The arrest comes as a direct result of the harboring of Terry Fitts, Charles Valento and Geo. 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. 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