C: Oct.-Nov. 15, 1915

Hardville Neb Nov 12th 1915

To the Governor of the State of Utah

Dear Sir- After [?] & Mature thought I have come to the conclusion that for you to permit the Murderous Execution (on Nov 19th 1915) of one Joe Hill would not only be a serious crime upon your part, Both Indiviually & collectively; to put such a stain upon the manhood of these United States, is without Precedent; this Joe Hill has been convicted of a crime, that has NOT been Proven, he has Never had the Rights that is Guaranteed to Every Citizen! 1st Viz- an Impartial Trial by a Jury of his Peers. 2nd he has NOT had the Benefit of a Passible Doubt. and upon these Grounds alone, I as a citizen ask you as the chief Executive of the State of Utah, to Pardon the said Joe Hill.

Yours Respt

Mark Castle Hardville Neb.

Hon Wm Spry Governor of Utah

Dear Sir:

I have carefully read the testimony in the case of Joseph Hillstrom now under sentence of death in your state and the fact of his guilt seems far from being established.

For the sake of humanity and justice, I trust your executive power will be used to commute the sentence to imprisonment or grant a further stay of execution.

Yours for Justice H.S. Crosby

2340 N 63rd St Seattle Wa

Nov 13th 1915

Seattle Nov 13/15

Dear Sir Governor Spry

as I have followed up the case of Joe Hillstrom and feel it my Duty to write to you that he hasn't been given a fair trial and if he is shot on the 19 of Nov it will be deliberate murder as you know he is an innocent man and his murder will be on your head remember the workers wont stand for much more oppreshun if [?] Yours

Yours for Humanity Ames Crookenzag

HEADQUARTERS, WAGE WORKERS OPEN FORUM. 556 1/2 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo. November 14th, 1915

TO THE PARDON BOARD OF THE STATE OF UTAH:

Gentlemen:

We the members of the Kansas City Wage Workers Open Forum, in meeting regularly assembled, do hereby vigoursly protest against the proposed Judicial Murder of our Friend and Fellow worker, who is sentenced to be shot for Murder of the 19th of the current month. We refer to Joseph Hillstrom, or Joe Hill, as he is best known and loved by us.

We are fimly convinced that the evidence upon which he was convicted we was purely Circumstantial, and that he did not have a fair trial. According to the Evidene he was tried by a jury that had been selected from the Audience of the Court Room, and not from a regular Panel of Citizens of the County in which He was tried.

Another reason is that there was three other Men in the city on the nigh on which Hillstrom was arrested, and they all had Gunshot Wounds for which they could not account, and of which a report had been made to the Police.

Still another reason is that when Hillstrom had attempted to discharge the Attorneys in his Employ, the Trial Judge refused to uphold him in His action, which was a direct violation of the law, as every man has a right tohis own counsel.

Believing the foregoing reasons to be sufficient to warrant a new trial, and that Justice has not been done the accused Man, we unite in this request that a new trial be granted.

Respectfull yours, First: P.J. McCann Second: J.C. Saieserby Third: Jeremy N. Townley Fourth: R.C. Thomson Fifth: Pat Hronman Committee.

Rochester NY. Joe Hill Day, Nov. 14.1915 To The Hon. Wm Spry Gov. of the State of Utah Executive Memoir Salt Lake City,

My Dear Sir:

Whereas, For the second time within a month, we, the workers of Rochester N.Y., in mass meeting assembled have found it necessary to register vigorous protest against the unjust imprisonment and persecution of Joseph Hillstrom by the courts of Utah, which have shown themselves to be the willing and servile tools of the business interests of the the west, to whom the killing of labor agitators has become a sport, and

Whereas,

we, from all accounts of his trial have become convinced that Joseph Hillstrom is innocent of the crime of which he is accused and is merely a victim of a consiracy, due to hatred and prejudice on account of his activity in the labor movement, and,

Whereas,

Joseph Hillstrom never had a fair trial, he has been denied a new trial in spite of the gravest errors in his trial, and

Whereas,

this innocent man is in immediate danger of being judicially murdered, due to the stubborn prejudice of his judges, and

Whereas

these same judges in the Board of Pardons have tried to justify their position by slandering