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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 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 Address

Goldfield Nevada. Wednesday September 1st.1915.
To the Honorable William Spry & Board of Pardons of Utah.

Gentlemen:- We, the members of the Metal Mine Workers
Union number 353 Goldfield Nevada; have by unanimous vote
recommended an appeal to the Honorable William Spry, Governor of
Utah in behalf of Joseph Hillstrom for clemency, and trust the
board of pardons will act accordingly.

Chas. C. Chambers, Sec'y
Box 1957 Goldfield Nev.