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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 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 18th, 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 pardon, for the following reason, 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 guaran-
teed 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 conduc-
ting his own defence, and that he has therefore been deprived of the bene-
fit of counsel.

Because of the conviction of the 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 becas of his nativity in the labor
movement.

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F. J. Garbin
G. P. Bradford
Carl M. Nielsen
Giovanni Naccaro
C. E. Cahick
Manuel Gonzalez
August Peterson
Sam Scovatto
F. Cruttenden
B. F. Waters
Frank Leliti
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M. M. Spencer
C. J. Ml Millon
C. A. Rhode
S. W. Rose
Pieter Tornboulto
Michelle Mule
C. Grus
A. Coniglio
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