Rhode Island, South Dakota [14 items]

Petition

Hon. Wm. Spray, 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. We have read and heard some thing of the case: 1st - We do not believe Joseph Hillstrom guilty of the case for which he has been convicted. 2nd - We do not believe that he had a fair trial. 3rd - We have learned that the jurors were not selected in the usual way. 4th - The defendent 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. Believing these to be the facts, we the undersigned, demand that the death sentence in the case of Joseph Hillstrom be set aside and clemency extended.

Name Address Alexander Sadosky 38 Putnam Av Providence RI George Fogarty 29 Pine St Providence Jack Lynch 407 Douglas Ave Adam Machala 41 Atwood Str Walter Kosinski 69 Hilarity St Providence RI Cesar Bockstael? 74 Appleton Str Prov Victor Garrein 11 Shaw Court Plymouth Mass ???? Metcalf 591 Branch Ave Victor Roussel 4 Riverside R?? Sievin Verpoort 38 Rodgers Court Oscar Pomm??y 20 Rodgers Court Jan Sawle 81 Lena Str L???? Frank ?04 Blackstone Str William Martin 23 Handy St Prov RI Robert Hunt 69 Verndak? Ave William A Moffett 81 Putnam Antoni ???ny 46 Appleton St Providence RI Joseph Solak

Petition

Hon. Wm. Spray, 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. We have read and heard some thing of the case: 1st - We do not believe Joseph Hillstrom guilty of the case for which he has been convicted. 2nd - We do not believe that he had a fair trial. 3rd - We have learned that the jurors were not selected in the usual way. 4th - The defendent 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. Believing these to be the facts, we the undersigned, demand that the death sentence in the case of Joseph Hillstrom be set aside and clemency extended.

Name Address Francis Miller 12 Benton St. Providence ??? ?angenmursch Leopold 100 Hartford Avenue RI Adam Machala 41 Atwood Str Providence RI ?on? Sawle 11 Judiht Str Prov. RI Cug??? N????? 115 Vanderwater St Prov RI Walter Blanding 15 Stansbury St Prov RI LA Banner 35 C????????? St " Albert Gascon 1936 Westminster " Charfles J Miller 10 Benton St Victor L Basinet 40 Grove St Providence John Lynch 801 Manton Ave. " Robert Casey 402 Walley St Prov John Gannon 605 Hardford Ave " Joseph Meyer 906 Hartford Ave " John Duffy 172 Julian St "

TO THE HONORABLE WILLIAM SPRY, Governor of the State of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

THE UNDERSIGNED, all being citizens of the United States, and whose addresses are set opposite their names, having been informed concerning the recent trial and conviction of one Joseph Hillstrom, (also known as Joe Hill) by the District Court of Salt Lake County, Utah, for the alleged killing of J.S. Morrison, and his son, Arling Morrison, in Salt Lake County, Utah, on January 10th, 1914, and of the affirmance of the Judgment of conviction of said District Court by the Supreme Court of the State of Utah, hereby make appeal to your executive clemency on behalf of said Hillstrom, and request that you grant him a pardon, for the following reasons, to-wit:

That the said Hillstrom was denied by the Judge of the said District Court of Salt Lake County that fair and impartial trial which is guaranteed to all citizens of the United States by the Constitution thereof, and the laws of the State of Utah, in that the said Court denied to him the privilege of being defended by counsel of his own selection, or of conducting his own defence, and that he has therefore been deprived of the benefit of counsel.

Because the conviction of said Hillstrom was obtained upon flimsy and wholly insufficient evidence, the said trial being a mockery of justice and the verdict rendered therein due wholly to prejudice prevailing in said Salt Lake County against Hillstrom because of his activity in the labor movement. NAME ADDRESS Charles J Miller 10 Benton St., Prov., R.I. Fred Ford 27 Delaine St " " Victor Hugo 114 Chalkstone Ave " " Thomas McCullen 45 Manton Ave " " Mathen Hyman 19 Babcock St " " Alfred Wilson 47 Manton Ave " " Charlie Christon 35 Manton Ave " " Thomas Roghan 67 Julian St., Providence John Wac Wan ? 14 Chaffee " Frank Marsh 34 Cannon ? James Turner 6 Putnam Ole Hugo 114 Chalkstone St Carl Manning 75 America St Charles Iaconnie 707 Westminster St Richard Dobb????? 95 Delaine St BJ Murry 72 Appleton Street Albert Gascon Box 243 Olneyville, RI PR Andrews 35 Union Ave

Seneca SD Sep. 26 1915

Dear Sir:

We the Undersigne do ask of you in behalf of Joe Hillstrom to Give him a Pardon or Commutation his Sentenc? as Circumstantual Evedence has Killed a many an Inocent man Whitch his case is certanly one of the Inocent ones.

Please Give this letter your Strick attation and Oblige

Yours Sincere Jack Beaton

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Friends of Joe Hillstrom Jack Beaton Seneca S.D. Geo. Hewitt H D Grogan JC Hasner? Earl H Ward Eugene Roesel Geo. Schubel Wa. Woods Frank Peterson Cha. Moore J.M. Osborne Tom Boulding