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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 opposit their name,
having being 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,
Arlin Morrison, in Salt Lake County, Utha, 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 Utha, hereby make appeal to your executive
clemency on behalf of said Hillstrom, and request
that 'you grant' him a pardon, for the following reasons,
D-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 (Signed) Antoniau E. Forte

Address (Signed) 1457 [? St] Los Angeles