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PETITION Dubuque, Iowa. Sept 16th. 1915, Hon Wm.Spry Governor of Utah,
This appeal is directed to the Board of pardons in behalf of Joseph Hillstrom, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, under sentence of death in the Utah Penitentiary. I have read and heard something of the case:
1st. I do not believe Joseph Hillstrom guilty of the crime for which he has been convicted.
2nd I do not believe he had a fair trial.
3rd. I have learned that the jurors were not selected in the usual way.
4th. The defendant was practically without council when he was on trial for his life.
5th. No motive was shown for the crime of which he was convicted.
6th. The conviction was found upon the flimsiest kind of circumstantial evidence.
Believeing this to be the facts, I the undersigned, demand that the death sentence in the case of Joseph Hillstrom, be set aside and clemency extended.
Mrs Hannah Pieray 51 W. Fifth Street. Dubuque, Iowa.
D: July-Aug 1914; July-Sept. 15, 1915
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Robin Ernest Dunbar South Bend, Indiana
July 25[?]14
Gov. Wm Spry, Ogden, Utah,
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Dear Sir: - Joe Hill is too good a boy to be shot even if he is guilty, but the great probability is the jury convicted him [?] prejudice. The Pardon board of New York parolled Bacini and Legere as Soon as their minimum sentences was up; Pres[tan?] was pardoned in [Arizona?]; the murder of Francisco [Ferren?] in Spain is deplored by all intelligent men and women. Don't make another mistake and Kill a poet: There is [not?] enough to go around as it is. Commute his sentence if you don't do anything else.
Sincerely yours, Robin Dunbar
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Chicago Heights, Ills, July 30, 1914.
Hon. W.M. Spry, Governors Mansion, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear Sir:
As a westerner, perhaps only temporarily absent, I protest against the outrageous conviction of Joe Hill for murder.
Please aid him to get a new trial at once.
Yours Truly, Walter Davis.
P.S.
A free press is ever the beacon-light of liberty, and will ever lead to a happier land. Free-speech is liberty and liberty is free-speech.
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The Dalles, Oregon Aug 6. 1914
Gov. Wm Spry Salt Lake Utah
Dear Sir. In reading the papers I have followed the unjust trial of one, Joe Hill find him convicted on the flimsiest kind of evidence, and sentenced to be shot. I protest as a citizen, and ask your interference. The eyes of thousands are watching you. What will you do?
Yours. Anna E. Duncan 422-W-16th st The Dalles Oregon
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Anna E. Duncan 422 West 16th St., The Dalles, Oregon,.
Dear Madam:
Your communication, written on behalf of Joseph Hillstrom, bas been by the Governor, filed with the State Board of Pardons, which board, under the laws of Utah, acts upon applications for pardon and commutation.
In order that you may be correctly informed as the facts entering into the appeal of this case to the Supreme Court of Utah, I am enclosing a copy of the decision of the Court for your perusal.
Very respectfully,
Secretary ot Governor.
