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PETITION

Hon Wm. Spry
Governor of Utah.

This appeal is directed to the Board of Pardons on 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 something of the case:

1st. We do not believe Joseph Hillstron guilty of the crime for which he has been convicted
2nd. We do not believe he had a fair trial.
3rd. We have learned that the jurors were not selected in the usual way.
4th. The defendant 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
Wm Marston Chicago Ill
Geo Bergman Chicago Ill
M Johnsen Chicago Ill
Frank H. Smith Chicago Ill
George L Morgan
Arthur Schraeder Chicago Ill
Jack Stern Chicago Ill
Bo Rowe Jackson Mich
Joseph Collins Boston Mass
Robert Cohen 9 W. Harrison St
Walter H Miller 815 S. State Chicago Ill

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