Illinois Rockford [28 items]

Mrs. Selma Anderson Rockford, Ill. Victor Anderson Rockford, Ill. Miss Irma Anderson Rockford, Ill. Elmer J Nelson Rockford Ill Emil Johnson Rockford Ill

ILLINOIS

Hjalmar Leonard Osberg 1809 -- 8 St. Rockford Ill. Mrs William Benson, Rockford Ill Johan Adolph Johansson Rockford Ils Wm Benson Rockford Ill. William Osberg Rockford Ill

Mrs. Ellen Christianson 1352 - 3 - Ave Rockford Ill Miss Victoria Christianson 1352 Third Ave. Rockford Ill. Mrs O Christianson 1352 Third Ave Rockford Ill Miss Edith Christianson 1352 Third Ave Rockford Ill. 1513 John Svedberg Rockford Ill 1513 Louisa Svedberg Rockford Ill O. Christianson 1352 3rd Ave Rockford Ills

IOWA

Hon Wm. Spry, Governor of Utah.

This appeal is directed to the Board of Pardons in behalf of Joseph Hillstrom, 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 [??]

TO THE HONORABLE WILLIAM SPRY, Governor of the State of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

THE UNDERSIGNED, all being citizens of the United States, and whose addresses are set opposite their names, having been informed concerning the recent trial and conviction of one Joseph Hillstrom, (also known as Joe Hill) by the District Court of Salt Lake County, Utah, for the alleged killing of J. S. Morrison, and his son, Arling Morrison, in Salt Lake County, Utah, on January 10th, 1914, and of the affirmance of the Judgment of conviction of said District Court by the Supreme Court of the State of Utah, hereby make appeal to your executive clemency on behalf of said Hillstrom, and request that you grant him a pardon, for the following reaons, to-wit: That the said Hillstrom was denied by the Judge of the said District Court of Salt Lake County that fair and impartial trial which is guaranteed to all citizens of the United States by the Constitution thereof, and the laws of the State of Utah, in that the said Court denied to him the privilege of being defended by counsel of his own selection, or of conducting his own defence, and that he has therefore been deprived of the benefit of counsel. Because the conviction of said HIllstrom was obtained upon flimsy and wholly insufficient evidence, the said trial being a mockery of justice and the verdict rendered therein due wholly to prejudice prevailing in said Salt Lake County against Hillstrom because of his activity in the labor movement.

Name [?Ephifanis Castanovo?] Address [?821 Kishwaukee St Rockford Ill.?]

TO THE HONORABLE WILLIAM SPRY, Governor of the State of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

THE UNDERSIGNED, all being citizens of the United States, and whose addresses are set opposite their names, having been informed concerning the recent trial and conviction of one Joseph Hillstrom, (also known as Joe Hill) by the District Court of Salt Lake County, Utah, for the alleged killing of J. S. Morrison, and his son, Arling Morrison, in Salt Lake County, Utah, on January 10th, 1914, and of the affirmance of the Judgment of conviction of said District Court by the Supreme Court of the State of Utah, hereby make appeal to your executive clemency on behalf of said Hillstrom, and request that you grant him a pardon, for the following reaons, to-wit: That the said Hillstrom was denied by the Judge of the said District Court of Salt Lake County that fair and impartial trial which is guaranteed to all citizens of the United States by the Constitution thereof, and the laws of the State of Utah, in that the said Court denied to him the privilege of being defended by counsel of his own selection, or of conducting his own defence, and that he has therefore been deprived of the benefit of counsel. Because the conviction of said HIllstrom was obtained upon flimsy and wholly insufficient evidence, the said trial being a mockery of justice and the verdict rendered therein due wholly to prejudice prevailing in said Salt Lake County against Hillstrom because of his activity in the labor movement.

Name [?Joe Crestani, Sandona Gaston?] Address [?1295 Preston Street Rockford Illinois?]