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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 leared 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.