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There Is No Possib[?]

The Human Side of Things
"Contentment in old age is deserved
by him alone who has not
lost faith in what is good, his persevering
strength of will and his desire
for active employment."—Turgenieff.

BULLET WOUND
IS EVIDENCE ON
WHICH COURTS
DOOMED HIM

Former Denver
Man Says He
Was Shot After
A Quarrel.

Denies Murder in Store,
But Refuses to Involve
Salt Lake Woman.

Joseph Hillstrum, who once
lived in Denver, will die at the
hands of a firing squad in the
Utah state penitentiary Oct. 30,
because he refuses to save his life
at the cost of a woman's reputation.

Hillstrum was offered a new
trial—with a strong chance of acquittal—
if he would disclose to the
court one woman's name. But he
says this woman is highly respected
in Salt Lake City, and to
expose her would be to blast her
reputation.

"So the only decent thing for
me to do," the condemend man
told the court, "is to keep my
mouth shut and die game."

Hillstrum stoutly maintains his innocence.
The evidence upon which he was
convicted of murder was slight. It all
hinged upon a bullet wound he suffered
in his chest. The prosecution asserted he
received the wound in battle with a grocer
who was found dead in his store. Hill- [illegible]
[?]ded in a quarrel