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PETITION
Dubuque, Iowa.
Sept 16th. 1915,
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 sent-
ence of death in the Utah Penitentiary. I have read and heard something
of the case:

1st. I do not believe Joseph Hillstrom guilty of the crime for
which he has been convicted.

2nd I do not believe he had a fair trial.

3rd. I 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.

Believeing this to be the facts, I the undersigned, demand that the
death sentence in the case of Joseph Hillstrom, be set aside and
clemency extended.

Mrs Hannah Pieray
51 W. Fifth Street.
Dubuque,
Iowa.