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PETITION

Hon Wm. Spry,
Governor of 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 some-
thing of the case:
1st. We do no believe Joseph Hillstrom guilty of the crime for which he has been convicted.
2nd. We do no 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 he was on trial for his life.
5th. No motive was shwn for the crime of which he was convicted.
6th. The conviction was found upon the flimsiest kind of circumstantial evidence.
Believing thse 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
R. [Kaplan?] 1118 Halsted St
G Novak 1813 S Rancine Ave.
M. [Nako?] 2300 Blue Island Ave
G. Leonard 2511 S. State St
P. O'Connor 1418 Wabash Ave
J. Ryan 4645 Marshfield Ave
J. Wagner 226 S. Halsted St Chicago Ill
H. I. [Ashugh?] 4032 Indiana Ave Chicago Ill