New Britain herald., 1920-12-10
Two White Men, Who Also Mur- dered Santa Rosa Officers of Law, Taken to Cemetery
 and Hanged
GANGSTERS IDENTIFIED BY
 WOMEN THEY ATTACKED
Mob of About 100, in f5 Automobiles, Rush Jail Early This Morning. Take Prisoners out and Execute Thcn,-one Man Accepted Fate Calmly While Other Fought for His Lifc.


 His Lifc.
 santa Rosa. Cal, Dec. Io.--Georgs Boyd, Terence Pitts and Charles va- lento. white men. accused ofshaving murdered Sheriff James A. P&ray of Sonamo county and Detectives Niles Jackson and Lester M Dorman here Sunday afternoon. last. were taken from the county jail here early this morning and hanged.
 At i2:3O o'clock a mob of about 100 men, all wearing masks, entered tho jail. overpowered the officers there, took their keys and removed the prisoners to waiting automobiles.
 Executed in Cemetery.
 Fifteen machines carried the party. They moved quickly down the street to cemetery, three blocks beyond the city limits. Ropes had been pre- pared. Tho men were taken from the machines and hanged to an oak tree inside tho cemetery. Headlights of three automobiles wero used to light the tree selected for the hanging.
 Members of tho mob wore stationed to prevent intrusion. These guards and many of the mob were armed i
 Mob Worked Quickly
 Not moro than i've minutes was re- ! auired by tho mob to enter the jail. overpower the officers and remove the i prisoners Within 1s minutes the aI- | laged gangsters and murderers had been iynched
 For anothor~I5 minutes. while tho bodies ldangied from tho oak tree in !. tho glare of the automobile head lights. tho mob waited at the scene to make certain their grim task was completed Then It's members de- parted. leaving the bodies swinging in tho darkness. .F |
 Identified by Victims.
 Boyd and vaiento had been identi- Bed last Monday by three young wom-> on as members of the gang which at lacked them at n house in one of the more denseiy settled sections in San
 Two attempts to take the men from jail here were made last Sunday night. few hours after they had been. ar- rested. Ono was broken up by officers and the other failed whom Mrs Pe- | tray, widow of the slain shertfr, begged ! friends not to countenancc mob vio- lcnce.
 Wore Only Underwear.
 The three men when taken from their cells wore only underwear. This proved to be their death garb. They were rushed to thu nne of automobiles drawn up abreast outside the jaii ant. ib cars moved away toward the ceme- terry. e. 70 Tho oak tree had been selected IS witness to the killing of the three ropes and at tho end of each was a moose, tied with the "hangman's knot" Boyd went along without struggle or comment. valento ex- postulated, but not vehemently. Fitts fought to escape his fate. They gagged him with a towel.
 No One Is Identified.
 Until nearly o'clock the bodies hung while hundreds of townspeople .ame in cars or afoot 10 see what the mob had done Automobile lights cast splotches of brightness into tho gloom that hung over tho cemetery while -ain dripped through the oak leaves on the bodies.
 Harry Quinlan of San Francisco, companion of Valento and held in jail ns . witness to the killisg of the three q officers. slept through the latest chap ter of the drama.
 Officials today said no members of Inc mob had been identified.