Casassa died in 1923 before his case went to trial, but at the time of his arrest the Press Democrat commented. 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. 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.. 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. A local historian has created a spreadsheet of 115 deaths attributed to Sonoma County police forces since 1989. Interviewed by the San Francisco Call, Phillips made the waters even murkier by saying neither Boyd nor Fitts had been buried to his knowledge. The Republican reported, it might be shipped to Seattle, where it is understood that Boyds mother lives, but word is awaited from that city before final disposition of the body by local authorities. It is also said that relatives of Fitts intended to claim his body and give it interment. 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. LeBaron: Were you the only one in your family? He leased 8,000 acres near Willits and attracted many local investors and when that failed tried drilling near Eureka. The tree, itself as if to give justification to the deed, burst through the shackles of the tradition which had decreed that a hangmans tree must die, and broke into new foliage early in the spring which followed the lynching. But Phillips had never received a call like this one: He was told there were three men hanging from a tree in the old Santa Rosa cemetery and nobody knew who killed them. 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. By 1949, the ropey loops had been moved to the Freemasons Scottish Rite Temple. The PD also had a window display of the bandanas and flour-sack masks discarded by the vigilantes along the road to Healdsburg. When their father died on New Years Eve 1917, the Healdsburg and Geyserville newspapers endorsed the 30 year-old Harry to fill out Neds term on the Board of Supervisors (the governor chose a man from the Dry Creek area). 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. There isnt anything to the flying the landing is the hard part.. 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. As he was Sonoma County Coroner, this was not terribly unusual; people inconveniently die at all hours. When the first chapter in this series was posted several people immediately contacted me via social media and email asking about a list containing the names of all the vigilantes. Readers of this entire series will recall the Santa Rosa episode began when Fitts Sr. died, leaving the large family home on College Ave. unoccupied and conveniently just at a time when Terry and his criminal companions wanted a hideout from San Francisco police. In 1985, thePress Democratrepublished the macabre photograph to complement LeBarons recounting of the deed. They then tied Johnson to a tree trunk and burned him alive, according to the deposition. Young gathered this up also. former Sheriff of Sonoma county, now engaged in ranching at Knights Landing. Oakland Police Department: Above the Law? The funeral of the late Terry Fitts took place yesterday from Weltis funeral parlors, Santa Rosa, and was attended by a few people. (Even Johnsons military background is unclear; some reports state that he was a World War I veteran, yet he entered the military less than two months from wars end.). For the three gangsters, each verdict was exactly the same: District Attorney Hoyle who had been informed of the lynching by the Press Democrat and not by the sheriff vowed to conduct a thorough investigation into who did it, but apparently gave up after only two days because he couldnt find anyone willing to snitch on the vigilantes. 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. And I think the answer to that is no in many, but not all, circumstances.. 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. There was no serious investigation by local authorities and the state did not intervene, although Governor Stephens grumbled there had better be some Sonoma County prosecutions. Nice communities dont try to batter down the jailhouse door or parade by the thousands through a morgue. 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. PABATID SA PUBLIKO Pinapaalala po sa lahat na ang ENERO 18, 2023 (Miyerkules) ay isang SPECIAL (NON-WORKING) DAY sa Lungsod ng Santa Rosa, Laguna alinsunod sa Proclamation No. In 2008, Lebaron praised the late Barnard as the last of a generation of north country pioneers guardian of an 88-year-old secret involving frontier justice. Bernard had said that the lynching was the right thing I just cant believe it was wrong. He had a salesmans type-A personality and was forceful in convincing others of his views. This was on the streets more than two hours before any other newspaper appeared, with only an abridged story and many of the details incorrect. 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. whose family has been connected with official life in this county for years. George Boyd, Terence Fitts, and Charles Valento were hanged for killing three law officers. 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. B. Look how it is now. It takes several men to drag a man up. MAYNARD YOUNG would be the top contender to play the role of the Captain, if that part was not otherwise cast. Ail of the machinery of the company is of the latest design for auto and tractor repair. 5743 Skylane Boulevard Windsor, CA 95492-9787 (707) 837-8843. Cassassa [sic] is a pioneer grape-grower and winemaker of Sonoma county and is well to do. Now lets crack this nut and see whats inside. Five separate shipments were made to Sebastopol, three to Healdsburg, two to Sonoma and Petaluma, and all day long scores of newsboys were busy on the streets disposing of Press Democrats, for which there appeared be a constant and ever-increasing demand. He and his partner will undoubtedly establish a first class business in Healdsburg. The jail deputies gave them the cell keys without any resistance, They was as much in favor of it being done as we were, he said. The Milton Gazette said Johnson was accused of assaulting a well-known white woman in Milton. The whereabouts of his grave remains unknown. RAY LATTIN had no apparent connection to the Standard Machine Shop or the Pattesons aside from being another Alexander Valley native but the family was close friends with the Petrays. LeBaron and her editors could have told Barnard, Stop talking! And it took him quite a while to asphyxiate, by not breaking his neck, he said. Then a veritable shower of jewelry occurred. He will retain his residence in Healdsburg while serving on the sheriffs force. 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. Keep in mind this was 1920 and in that era Americans did not shy from all things morbid or gruesome, particularly when it came to dead outlaws. The Santa Rosa Community Remembrance Coalition meets in the Student Center on the PSC Milton campus. The plane was not here more than quarter of an hour and made the round trip in record time. From these two angles it appears today that Boyd also might have been a former Santa Rosa boy. 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. This piece first appeared in The Bohemian. For more information see, Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 (Duke, 2006) Skip to main content. 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. Mosley, along with fellow PSC colleague Tonie Anderson-Steele, are coalition researchers. LeBaron: Did your parents know you went? But LeBaron and the owners of thePress Democratwere not protecting a whistleblower producing incriminating evidence of governmental wrongdoings. It did not, of course, go away. The grim reminder of Sonoma county retributive justice the cemetery locust tree to which on December 10, 1920 a mob hanged the three slayers of Sheriff James A. Petray and two San Francisco detectives has passed into history. HARRY PATTESON DEPUTY SHERIFF Harry L. Patteson of this city has been appointed to the office of deputy under Sheriff John M. Boyes of Santa Rosa, and takes up his work immediately in Santa Rosa. 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. If Santa Rosa policemen had arrived while the vigilantes were inside the jail seizing the gangsters, would they have surrendered or started a shootout? Mr. Patteson is the son of the late Supervisor Patteson. LeBaron, 86, has also not reported on killings by Sonoma County law enforcers, a fact that she acknowledged in an interview with theBohemianlast week. 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. By Press Democrat service the Associated Press was enabled to put out 2500 words on the telegraph wire before 2 oclock in the morning. . Ranchers thronged through the streets as if the event were one of carnival nature.. 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. The Republicans photo is shown below. The building is being rearranged to meet the needs of the company, and additional skylights have been built to afford abundant light. veterans monument. Harry Patteson later became a five-term sheriff (1934-1958) as well as the Healdsburg Police Chief twice. Ray told audiences the dog was 34 collie and one part wolf. But it still seems unusual for a tiny company such as Standard Machine Works to have so many ties specifically to the sheriffs office going beyond friend-of-a-friend links; there were multiple personal and professional relationships with not only Petray but Sheriffs Jack Smith (before Petray) and Boyes (after Petray). In addition, minority populations have increased. The three men rushed out the back door into the hands of armed deputies who incarcerated them in the county jail, downtown. Tell Me When Systemic Racism Ended? 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. LeBarons account of the 1920 lynching is featured on theHistory pageof the Sonoma County Sheriffs website. Santa Rosa is going to be known as an unsafe place for criminals. 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. Inequality is Weakening Social Security. The lawlessness of the thing is what appalls me, was District Attorney George W. Hoyles statement early this morning when informed of the lynching. 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 wreck has been visited by hundreds of sightseers, MAYNARD YOUNG HAS THE AGENCY FOR SALIENT SIX. 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. This was the last lynching to take place in Sonoma County. CELEBRATOR STOPS AUTO ON HIGHWAY; SHERIFF IS IN IT. Nine African-Americans were lynched in Santa Rosa County from 1884 to 1937. HANGMANS TREE REMOVAL PRAISED BY CLUBWOMEN AND OPPOSED BY CEMETERY BOARD. Green Cove Springs ( Photos) Avon Park ( Photos) Deland ( Photos) Sebring ( Photos) Palatka ( Photos) Palmetto. When Mrs. Newman was interviewed she stated that she had exercised her authority as president of the board in ordering the tree cut down. The Sacramento Bee sent an airplane from Sacramento to Santa Rosa yesterday to secure a photograph of the lynching scene. City Recorder C. N. Collins has already started action so far as his court is concerned by inflicting jail sentences for drunkenness. Approximately 55 miles north of San Francisco, Santa Rosa has a warm climate, rolling golden hills and desirable real estate.It offers a metropolitan wine country lifestyle experience, with gourmet restaurants and high-end shops. And so the blitzkrieg attack began, wrapping up under ten minutes later with the gangsters tied and gagged and being chauffeured to their doom. 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. That Boyd might be an alias of the slayer developed yesterday when the crowd were passing through the morgue. Ray Owen, co-author of the new edition of the cemeterys burial reference book is confident he has found their burying place, or at least the grave of Fitts. 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. That you were involved in this? It was not unexpected; after Sheriff Jim Petray's murder and the subsequent riot at the jail, the county was awash with rumors that a lynching was in the works. 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. He has been associated with his brother, Don Patteson, in the auto business at the Standard Machine Shop. 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. But now that it was over, everyone was glad of being rid of those troublesome gangsters. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the accreditation status of Pensacola State College or if there is evidence that appears to support Pensacola State Colleges significant non-compliance with a requirement or standard. 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; 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 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. The importance of this revelation will be discussed in a moment. Phillips spent nearly an hour at the jail with the sheriff (probably joined by Welti) prior to heading for the cemetery. Explore the . Before he left Petaluma, Coroner Phillips phoned Frank Welti, the Deputy Coroner for Santa Rosa and ordered an ambulance to be waiting at the cemetery to transport the bodies. 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. The Shame of Santa Rosa, California: Whiteness, and the Culture of Lynching, The CIAs Changing Take on the Climate Emergency, Emancipation, Hollywoods Best Civil War Film Ever. The warden wrote back only that he died in Santa Rosa.. The letter states that the mother has not heard from the son for some time, and that she is anxious to get information regarding his whereabouts. Hundreds swooped down on the fallen tree to snag wood chips and other lynching keepsakes, while editor Finley used the occasion to wax nostalgic about the events of December 1920. On Thursday [sic] relatives of Fitts notified the coroner that they would claim his body. 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. Making less than 5,000 cases of pinot noir, chardonnay, and pinot gris, Inman Wines is a true 'boutique' winery. (She supposedly slept through all the yelling and other commotion at the jail while they were being hauled away by the vigilantes.). My grandparents come across the plains, and thats the way it was. At the cemetery the nooses were already knotted and securely anchored around the locust tree. He said, no, it worked out so nice. Barnard explained that the vigilantes were afraid that the court trial would be a long drawn out deal. T' Timomy Bakw TTIew locust tree grown from the stump of the 1920 'Hanging Tree' in Rural Cemetery arking up the wrong tree . 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. SANTA ROSA. 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. 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. LYNCHING 3 MEN SANTA ROSA CALIFORNIA GANG 1920 Description Original old flyer printed by the Santa Rosa Press Democrat shows Three Members of the Howard Street gang come to roost.In a Santa Rosa oa 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. [End of transcript] Santa Rosa City Hall - 100 Santa Rosa Avenue - Santa Rosa, CA 95404. Like Maynard Young, Lattin was law enforcement-adjacent in those years. Australia, today was informed by cable from the Folsom authorities that her son, George Barron, alias Boyd, one of the three gangsters lynched here December 10 for the killing of Sheriff James A. Petray and Detectives Miles Jackson and Lester Dorman of San Francisco, had died in Santa Rosa.. 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. Then two more rings were noticed on the floor along with a pearl and opal pendant. Patuloy naman ang operasyon ng sumusunod na opisina sa Enero 18: From there about twenty would head for the jail where they took their assigned positions some as armed guards on the street, others in teams of three to tie up each of the gangsters and pack him out of the jail to a waiting car, carried by the shoulders, waist and feet. 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. 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. When You Visit Let Our List of 30 Things To Do Be Your Guide. The date is confirmed by entries in the funeral homes receipt book. Santa Rosa, CA 95401-4395 (707) 527-4011. Now they were buried, why continue the subterfuge? A Santa Rosa County School Board candidate running against a longtime incumbent in the August primary publicly proclaimed that doctors who prescribe hormone . The following petition addressed to the editor of the Call explains itself, and accounts for the . But is there any evidence that universities and/or medical schools around 1920 were robbing graves in the name of science, pseudo or otherwise? Ralph Cromwell, special writer for the Chronicle, who had covered the shooting of the peace officers Sunday, also covered the lynching story for the big daily. The other big development that day was the struggle to keep up with the latest news details of the jailhouse siege and the lynching trickled out until bedtime. In the Dec. 1, 1985Press Democrat, LeBaron regaled readers with a story about three murder suspects who were hustled out of the Santa Rosa jail around midnight and hanged in a cemetery on Dec. 10, 1920. Santa Rosa, city, seat (1854) of Sonoma county, western California, U.S. 5. A dozen automobiles, before daylight, circled the Plaza, tooting horns, blowing sirens and making a huge racket which woke up the town. Valento was buried at San Francisco Saturday, privately. 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. When asked where their riches came from, they claimed, Just find it in the street, thats all, lyin right there in the street.. Budget. PSC Milton campus instructor Darlene Mosley is the coalitions coordinator. This is a postscript to the series on the 1920 lynchings in Santa Rosa, THERE WILL BE PRICES PAID and covers one of the conspiracies of silence following the murder of the gangsters: The mystery of what happened to their bodies. 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. A longtime school board member is facing a challenger in the race for the Santa Rosa County School Board's District 3 seat . Members of the mob would pull him up and then let him down again and again, according to the NAACP deposition. Shortly after the boys left Sonoma Wednesday afternoon, Deputy Sheriff Joe Ryan received word to be on the lookout for them, and he requested Maynard Young to pick them up if he saw them along the road. They are our ancestors, Anderson-Steele said of the lynching victims. The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners serves as the legislative and policy setting body of Santa Rosa County as established under Section 125 of the Florida Statutes. This was a bold strategy to gauge how well the sheriff was prepared to resist an attack on the jail; although the vigilantes were armed, all planning by the Captain showed he counted upon facing no serious resistance. The coalition meets once a month at Pensacola State College. 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. Beginning in the 1990s, the countys non-white categories rapidly increased, climbing toward a majority of the population. I asked LeBaron why she had not turned Barnard over to law enforcement. Vigilante Justice! Gaye LeBaron broke that story in 1985 after he spoke to her and in 1989 she recorded an interview which is available on the SSU website. 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. 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. The ladies rest room is fitted up attractively, and is conveniently located near the front of the building. Charles . Santa Rosa boy hit by vehicle remains hospitalized with critical injuries. Phillips said nothing further about the graves and was never confronted about why he kept it secret. Mrs. Elizabeth Barron of Sydney. So now we come back to our starting place: Who were the vigilantes, and who was the Captain? Pursued by big city lawmen, the trio ended up in a house eating soup in Santa Rosa, where, on Sunday, Dec. 4, they were cornered by Sonoma County Sheriff James Petray. The 2010 census reported a population of 167,815. 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. Holiday Inn Express Santa Rosa, an IHG Hotel. Whether anyone was able to find her or not is unknown, but by the end of the day it was decided Boyd was to be buried here somewhere. 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. Dec. 12. You will find antiques, unique shops, coffee houses, and restaurants. In early March, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors honored retiringPress Democratreporter Gaye LeBaron for chronicling the people, culture and history of Sonoma County.. V2p81dIn PHOTO ALBUM-VAULT: ** fc917.9461 A3, Vol. Value. In 1915 Ned gave then-Deputy Sheriff James A. Petray a political boost by having him produce a series of Christmas benefits. All credit for its success was given to the leader whom Barney called the Captain, and theres no dispute the mission was brilliantly planned and executed. 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. The boys were searched and more jewelry and silver coins were found on them. 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. Fitts as a boy had played about the tree before he became the despair of a respectable family. City of Santa Rosa records, including emails, are subject to the California Public Records Act. 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. 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. Many people saw the ambulance go quietly through here, but did not know it carried the body of one of the victims of the lynchers. He crashed into a barn and destroyed the government flying machine but was unhurt. There will be no grand jury investigation, said Hoyle, unless I get evidence enough to warrant it., There was a crowd at the undertaking parlors where the bodies of the lynched men had been removed and thousands asked to view them during Friday. 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