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P E T I T I O N .

HON WM SPRY
Governor of Utah.

This appeal is directed to the Board of Pardons in behalf
of Joseph Hillstrom, under sentence of death in the Utah Peni-
tentiary. 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.
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NAME G. Nelson ADDRESS Meyers Falls, Wash.
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