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Petition

Hon. Wm. Spry.
Salt Lake City, Utah

Governor of Utah:
This appeal is directed to the Board of Pardons
in behalf of Joseph Hillstrom, under sentence of death in the Utah Penitentiary. We have
read and heard something of the case:
1st We do not believe Josepf 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 ws 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