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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 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 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 factsm we the undersigned, demand that the death sentence in the case of Joseph
Hillstrom be set aside and clemency extended.
Name Address
Thos Larson 2207 N. Harlem Ave. Chicago Ill
Albert Wickstrom 637 N. Sawyer Av. " "
Otto Johnson 1222 Otto St. Chic. Ill
W Dunscomo 1856 N Chicago Av Chicago Ill
Wm Bethke 1922 N. Kildare Ave Chicago Ill
F W [Hoprirda?] 2027 N California Ave Chicago Ill
B. Edwardson 1463 Victoria St. Chicago Ill
Cyrul M. Buczkowski 3823 Morton Ave. La Vesgne Ill
A J Price 3520 Argent St Chicago Ill
F C Schmidt 1016 Ridgeland Ct. O.P. Ill.
P. Geisel 3844 [illegible] Chicago Ill.
J Grumbo 1124 W 15 St
Albert Simpson 549 Oakdale Ave Chicago Ill
Lev Kleszczynski 3619 Diversey Ave. Chicago Il.