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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 Utal 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 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
Axel Swanson R.R. 12 Rockford Ill
Tet Olson 1228 Rockford Ill
Care Bengtran 910 th st. Rockford Ill
Hyalmar Goranran 1525 6th Rockford Ill
[?] Osberg 1809 8st Rockford Ill
John Nystron 803 8 ave Rockford Ill
John Myrberg 1626 16 ave Rockford Ill
Einar Swanson 1910 16th ave Rockford Ill
Arvi Falth 1221 4 ave
John Nelson 1324 16 ave Rockford Ill
Sam Tredrickson 10 19 Kishwanku st
Edwin [?] 527 7th St.
Golfsed Ansesarious 320 6th St
Oscar Gustavson 2129 11th st
Otto Martenson 1221 4th Ave