California [22 items]

Petition

Daly City, Calif. Sept 1915

Hon. Wm. Spry

Governor of Utah

The undersigned believe that there is a strong doubt as to the guilt of Joseph Hillstrom, under sentence of death in the Utah Penitentiary.

We hereby respectfully petition you to commute his sentence to life imprisonment, to the end that Hillstrom, if innocent, may have a fair chance to prove his innocense.

O.A.Noren 620 Park Ave. N. Matilda Noren 620 Park Ave. N. Oscar Johnson 620 Park Ave.

Petition

San Francisco, Calif., Sept. 1915

Hon. Wm. Spry,

Governor of Utah.

The undersigned believe that there is a stron doubt as to the guilt of Joseph Hillstrom, under sentance of death in the Utah Penitentiary.

We hereby respectfully petition you to commute his sentence to life imprisonment, to the ent that Hillstrom, if innocent, may have a fair chance to prove his innocence.

Miss Victoria Vicklund 125 Hillside Ave Peidmont Cal

San Jose, Calif., October 30, 1915.

To Gov. William Spry and the People of Utah:---

We, members of the working class assembled in the city of San Jose, Calif., do protest against the legal murder of Joseph Hilstrom.

Should you, Gov. Spry, not exercise the powers vested in you we denounce you as a party to Joseph Hilstrom's murder.

All the facts in this case have cried aloud against the treatment of this man. The echoes of the protest have come from foreign lands. You should do you duty in this case and prevent the legal murder of an innocent man.

Remember, Gov. Spry, that class prejudice and hatred recently stanined the State of Georgia with an inexcuseable crime. Your own state of Utah recently came within an hour or so of murduring another helpless member of the working class.

Should you neglect the protests in favor of Joseph Hilstrom on you will fall the responsibility for any results of such an outrageous murder. You are only permitting the execution of Joseph Hilstrom because he wrote songs sung everywhere by the advancing proletatiat. Men and women who produce all the world's holds dear will not idly permit such vengence upon the artists who voice the hopes new springing within them.

Mortimer [ ] L.J. Pelissero V. A. Peters John Inglis, Scotland Fred Morris W. A. Hudd Edw. Spencer A. Edger Ray Markham J.R. Williams Fred [Walgreen] A. Meorganti Thos. Hodder Tom Browning Thos. [Healy] Ed Malstrom [ ] [S. Tori]

Hans Bowman Alfred Gonsalves J. O'Brien M. Ehrlich Charles A. Roucye Joe Tarslla Morrison Moore Jessie Joyal Joe Johnson M. Boyanspry Walter Pollack R. Cardwell J. Timbury John Vogel P. D. Foley Joe Miesletta Polo Leytio J. Viencery Parrino S. Burtsea W. H. Hissman Mike Mileoen B. J. Moriarty

Robert Walker Vinan Florence Julius Turr Leo Kormor Jack Killer F. Raisen J. F. Niller P. W. MacDonald R. J. Adorns A. Carlsen Geo. Wranghe A. Windcross A. J. Christos W. A. Wright Leland G. Poulson Lee Ray Olivier Franga Geo Lastals Gerard ARts Wm Obratz P. Joes. Shanahan S. F. Wm Maley J. M. Cormane