The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-12-10
3 MEN HANGED
in CEMETERY
Mob Seeks Vengeance on AZ
legged SIayerS of Sheriff at
Santa Rosa.
WEIRD MIDNIGHT SCENE
One Hundred Armed Masked
Men Storm Jail and
Remove Prisoners

santa Rosa, Cal. Dec. 1O.-Georrs
BOYD. Terence Fits and Charles Va
'ento, accused OF having murdered
sherim James A. Petray. OF sonoma
county. and Detectives Miles Jackson
and Lester NJ. Dorman here Sunday
afternoon last. were taken from the
county fail here early this morning
and hanged.
At 1890 o'clock this morning a mob
Of about 100 men. all wearing black
masks, entered the IAN, overpowered
the officers, took their keys and re-
moved the prisoners TO waiting auto
mobiles.
Taken 10 Cemetery.
Fifteen machines carried tho party.
they moved quickly down the street "a
cemetery three blocks beyond the
city limits. Ropes had been prepared.
The men were taken from the machines
and hanged TO an oak tree inside the
cemetery.
Members ~ the mob were stationed
10 prevent Intrusion. These guards and
many Of the mob were armed.
Not more than Ave minutes wa, "a.
CURED nv the mob 10 enter the fail.
overpower the officers and remove tha
prisoners. within ffteen minutes ira
three. alleged gangsters and murdererr
hnd been lvnchcd For another fifteen
minutes. while the bodies dangied from
me oak tree IN the glare Of the auto
mobile headlight., the mob waited At
tne scene to mako certain their grim
TASK was completed. Then It's nenl-
hers departed. leaving the bodles
swinging IN thc darkness.
but another crowd soon Eathered e.
take the places Of the executioners'
city and county officials The new
crowd gathered quickly rs news .pread
ot what had been done. II soon num-
bered hundreds
Weird Soeen.
They found n weird scene. Lirhts az
new automobiles and IN greater number
n"ain liehted the scene. From tho oak
me bodies swung In the breeze In and
out OF the glare Of the headlights.
The three men were ex-conviets
HoNd having served two terms, Fits
thrce and Valento ono Boyd ars
Yalonto Ind been Identified last Mon
nnN nv three Young women ~ mem
hers ~ the gang which attacked the,r
IN house In Howard street. IN on.
~ the more densclv settled sections
IN San Francisco Two attemnts h.
take tho men from fall hero were made
st sunday nirht, n few hours after
,hev had boen arrested. One was
broken un nv officers and the other
fniled when Mrs Petrav. widow az Che
slain shrrln, begged friends NOT IA
countenance mob violence
Plans Well laid.
Last SUNDAY, when the three FsfNn
were arrested uioh nf hnmdrnifM Nttx~
rnunfind the iail AMI nttAmmtMA fp nha
faln the nrfAapmrN TIRE NrtirnN IN sigM
sFtAh TODAY Indicated piana han been
'htd beforehand The members % tfsa
mob moved 10 the IAN without onteMs
fation A Gordon was thrown about
The structure of granite. concrete ana
steel.
Disarned Jaliers.
Twelve men were detailed to ap-
oroach the door. Six entered. Sheriff
John Hoyes appointed after the death
NJ Sheriff Petray, was IN HIS private
ofilce NJ the rirht. with four deputies.
Tho ak were armed They covered"
DoveS and his IDENTITIES and made them
nut up their hands, The officers then
were disarmed and the keys TO the fail
taken
Boyes pleaded with them, but the
mon said not = word.
They made him lean over a chair
While some Of the men inside the fan
guarded thu ON 'ers. others went I'm
'redintelv 70 the cell Of Boyd. Boyd.
tutoring from the wound inflicted by
Jackson, had been kent IN q cell be-
cause tho officers feared 10 send him
20 hospital for treatment on account
NJ fcollng against tho three men.