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WM BAILEY, PRESIDENT NEPHI. HARDEN BENNION, SECRETARY ROOSEVELT JOHN WATSTON, OGDEN. AMOS S. GABBOTT, SALT LAKE CITY. STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION OF UTAH 218 FELT BUILDING P. O. BOX 827 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. Nov. 24th 1915

Hon. William Spry, Governor Salt Lake City, Utah Dear Governor

Premit me to convey to you my appreciation and hearty approval of your action, and that of the Board of Pardons in the Hillstrom case. Especially during the time since you received the second request from President Wilson In all my personal discussion of the case I have heard nothing but expressions of gratification that our Governor had the good judgment to see what was right and the courage to do it.

It is to be deplored that in the exercise of your plain and conscientious duties you should be annoyed and threatened with so many vile communications. For this trouble and annoyance please accept my most sincere sympathy and if in any way I can be of the slightest assistance in helping you to bear and overcome this trouble I should be very pleased to do so.

Very truly yours Amos S. Gabbott

January 5, 1916.

Mr. Amos S. Gabbott, c/o State Board of Equalization, Salt Lake City, Utah. My dear Mr. Gabbott:—

Please accept this tardy acknowledgement of your letter of November 24th, containing an expression of your approval of my action in the Hillstrom case. Your letter would have been answered before but I have been so pressed for time that it has been impossible to take care of the mail.

I am pleased to find that decent, self-respecting element all over the United States are supporting the officials of Utah in their efforts to preserve the majesty of the law and I am sure that the out-spoken sentiment against those who seek to overthrow our institutions through threat and intimidation is serving to curtail the lawless element in acts of violence.

With the compliments of the season, I am Cordially yours,

Governor.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Officers Henry Gardner, President John Walsh, Vice President N. A. Turner, Treasurer Ed. M. Rowe, Secretary BOARD OF TRUSTEES Members Albert R. Barnes E. G. Gowans T. A Williams J. W. Abbott STATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL OGDEN, UTAH

November 24, 1915. Hon. William Spry, Governor, Chairman Board of Pardons, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Sir: We, the Board of Trustees of the State Industrial School, before closing our monthly meeting this day, feel called upon to congratulate you and the members of the Board of Pardons for the admirable manner in which you handled the Hillstrom case. We feel that the lessons inculcated by your actions throughout this lamentable affair cannot help but be of immense benefit for the uplift of law and order in our beloved state, and we also wih to advise you that your attitude relative to the supression of lawlessness in our state has our most hearty approval.

Very respectfully,

John Walsh J. W. Abbott. T. A. Williams N A Turner E. G. Gowans E. J. Hinckley Supt G A Goates Secy.

January 24th, 1916.

Mr. G. A. Goates. Secretary, State Industrial School. Ogden, Utah.

Dear Sir:—

I beg that you express to the members of the Board of Trustees of the State Industrial School, my sincere appreciation of their action of November 24th, in passing a resolution of commendation of my course in handling the Hillstrom case.

I wish, also, that you would assure them of my firm conviction that the vigorous, outspoken expression of the law-abiding people of this community against those who sought to accomplish their ends through threats and intimidation, had a remarkable tendency to curb the law less in their acts and utterances.

In handling this case, I did what I regarded as my plain and simple duty and it is a source of much satisfaction to know that my action has the approval of the people of Utah.

The members of the Board of Pardons who have read your letter, join in this expression of appreciation.

Cordially yours,

Governor.

Salt Lake City. Sept. 22. 1915: Hon. Gov. Spry; Dear Sir: I have just read the fiendish letter, threatening your life, in this morning's Trib. (Wednesday) Only a coward could write such a letter. I sincerely believe the "order of K.O.D." to be of a mere mythical nature. Such an "organization" as here mentioned, appears most plainly to have sprung from a brain pregnant with fiction. We have a man in this city, (I'll not reveal his name for the sake of his aged mother) a native of Sweden and still a subject to that government, who has more than any one contributed to the spreading of the Hillstrom case by sordid, provokeful articles — offensive to the state of Utah, her governor and the latter day saints — pub-