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PETITION.

HON. WM. SPRY,

Salt Lake City, Utah.

Governor of Utah :-

This appeal is directed to the Board of Pardons in behalf of
Joseph Hillstrom, 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 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.

J. H. Olson NAME 382 N. Pearl st [illegible] [illegible] 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 City, Utah, for the alleged
killing of J. S. Morrison, and his son, Arling Morrison,
in Salt Lake County, Utah, on Jan. 10, 1914, and of
the affirmance fo the judgment of conviction of said District
Court by the Supreme Court of the State of Utah,
hereby make appeal to your executed clemency on behalf
of said Hillstrom, and request that you grant him a pardon,
for the following reasons, to wit:

That the said Illstrom 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 defense, and that he has
therefore been deprived of the benefit of counsel.

Because the conviction of said Hillstrom was obtained
upon flimsy and wholly insufficient evidence, the said trial
being a mockery of justice and the verdict rendered therein
due wholly to prejudice prevailing in said Salt Lake
County against Hillstrom because of his activity in seeking
justice for the laboring class.

Name Address

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