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DSchmid at May 18, 2021 09:17 PM
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Gina Strack (Utah State Archives)

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21 N. Morgan St.
Chicago, Ills.
Nov. 12/1915-

Your Excellency,
Governor Spry,
Dear Sir: -

We are writing
you in behalf of Joseph Hilstrom
lying in jail in your city and
to be shot on Nov. 19, for a crime
that we are positive in our [illegible]
that he is innocent of. Now,
in our childhood are were
[illegible] that [illegible], our country
was a great, free land of liberty,
brotherly love [ampersand] justice, and we
as born citizens of this land
insist strenuously that Joseph
Hilstrom be given a new trial,
as his judicial murder will
be a blot forever on the fair

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