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PETITION
Hon Wm. Spry,
Governor or Utah.

This appeal is directed to the Board of Pardons in 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 Hillstrom guilty of the crime for which he has been convicted.
2nd. We do not believe that 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 we 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.

Name Address
Joe Peterson 3857 Vinncenes Av
J. P. Vaughn 326[2?] 37 st
J. Edgell 617 East 39 st
[?] 3741 [Sollage?] Grove
David Mitchell 3402 Prarie ave
[O.?] A. Jate 314 [Chicemmis?] ave
D. N. Scatt 2486 E. 35th St
Phillip Goldberg 3441 Calumet ave.
L. Cohn 222 E. 35th St.

PETITION
Hon Wm. Spry,
Governor or Utah.

This appeal is directed to the Board of Pardons in 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 Hillstrom guilty of the crime for which he has been convicted.
2nd. We do not believe that 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 we 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.

Name Address
Joe Peterson 3857 Vinncenes Av
J. P. Vaughn 326[2?] 37 st
J. Edgell 617 East 39 st
[?] 3741 [Sollage?] Grove
David Mitchell 3402 Prarie ave
[O.?] A. Jate 314 [Chicemmis?] ave
D. N. Scatt 2486 E. 35th St
Phillip Goldberg 3441 Calumet ave.
L. Cohn 222 E. 35th St.