Pennsylvania [32 items]

TO THE HONORABLE WILLIAM SPRY Governor of the State of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah

THE UNDERSIGNED, all being citizens of the United States, and whose addresses are set opposite their names, having been informed concerning the recent trial and conviction of one Joseph Hillstrom, (also known as Joe Hill) by the District Court of Salt Lake County, Utah, for the alleged killing of J.S.Morrison and his son, Arling Morrison, in Salt Lake County, Utah, On January 10th, 1914, and of theaffirmance of the Judgement of conviction of said District Court by the Supreme Court of the State of Utha [sic], hereby make appeal to your executive clemency on be-half of said Hillstrom, and request that you grant him a pardon, for the followingreasons, to-wit: That the said Hillstrom was denied by the Judge of the said District Court of Salt Lake County that fair and impartial trial which is guaranteed to all citizens of the United States by the Constitution thereof, and the laws of the State of Utah,in that the said Court denied to him the privilege of being defended by counsel of his own selection, or of conducting his own defence, and that he has therefore been deprived of the benefit of counsel. Because the conviction of said Hillstrom was obtained upon flimy and wholly insufficient evidence, the said trial being a mockery of justice and the verdict rendered therein due wholly to prejusdice prevailing in said Salt Lake County against Hillstrom because of his activity in the labour movement NAME ADDRESS

TO THE HONORABLE WILLIAM SPRY Governor of the State of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah

THE UNDERSIGNED, all being citizens of the United States, and whose addresses are set opposite their names, having been informed concerning the recent trial and conviction of one Joseph Hillstrom, (also known as Joe Hill) by the District Court of Salt Lake County, Utah, for the alleged killing of J.S.Morrison and his son, Arling Morrison, in Salt Lake County, Utah, On January 10th, 1914, and of theaffirmance of the Judgement of conviction of said District Court by the Supreme Court of the State of Utha [sic], hereby make appeal to your executive clemency on be-half of said Hillstrom, and request that you grant him a pardon, for the followingreasons, to-wit: That the said Hillstrom was denied by the Judge of the said District Court of Salt Lake County that fair and impartial trial which is guaranteed to all citizens of the United States by the Constitution thereof, and the laws of the State of Utah,in that the said Court denied to him the privilege of being defended by counsel of his own selection, or of conducting his own defence, and that he has therefore been deprived of the benefit of counsel. Because the conviction of said Hillstrom was obtained upon flimy and wholly insufficient evidence, the said trial being a mockery of justice and the verdict rendered therein due wholly to prejusdice prevailing in said Salt Lake County against Hillstrom because of his activity in the labour movement NAME ADDRESS

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.

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.

TO THE HONORABLE WILLIAM SPRY Governor of the State of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah

THE UNDERSIGNED, all being citizens of the United States, and whose addresses are set opposite their names, having been informed concerning the recent trial and conviction of one Joseph Hillstrom, (also known as Joe Hill) by the District Court of Salt Lake County, Utah, for the alleged killing of J.S.Morrison and his son, Arling Morrison, in Salt Lake County, Utah, On January 10th, 1914, and of theaffirmance of the Judgement of conviction of said District Court by the Supreme Court of the State of Utha [sic], hereby make appeal to your executive clemency on be-half of said Hillstrom, and request that you grant him a pardon, for the followingreasons, to-wit: That the said Hillstrom was denied by the Judge of the said District Court of Salt Lake County that fair and impartial trial which is guaranteed to all citizens of the United States by the Constitution thereof, and the laws of the State of Utah,in that the said Court denied to him the privilege of being defended by counsel of his own selection, or of conducting his own defence, and that he has therefore been deprived of the benefit of counsel. Because the conviction of said Hillstrom was obtained upon flimy and wholly insufficient evidence, the said trial being a mockery of justice and the verdict rendered therein due wholly to prejusdice prevailing in said Salt Lake County against Hillstrom because of his activity in the labour movement NAME ADDRESS