| Page 31PETITION
Hon. Wm. Spry,
Governor of Utah.
This appeal is directed to the Board of Pardons in behalf of Joseph Hillstrom, a member of Industrial Workers of the World, under sentence of death in the Utah 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 Simon Kramer Address
20 -W=Mossery Av.
Kansas City
Mo | Page 31PETITION
Hon. Wm. Spry,
Governor of Utah.
This appeal is directed to the Board of Pardons in behalf of Joseph Hillstrom, a member of In-
dustrial Workers of the World, under sentence of death in the Utah 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 Simon Kramer Address
20 -W=[Mossery?] Av.
Kansas City
Mo[illegible] |
EN