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Girard, 211., Nov. 14 1915, Hon. Wym. Shry, Gov. of Utah Salt Lake City Utah, Dear Governor ShryWe, the undersigned, mose perfectfully impose you to do all in your lowes to see that the life of Joe Hill is slared until such time as he may be granted a new
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Rockford Ill November 12 1915
Hon. Wm. Spry Salt Lake City Utah: - Governor of Utah:- This appeal is directed to the board of pardons in behalf of Josef Hillstrom under [illegible] of death in the penetentiary. We have read and heard something of the case: 1st- We do not believe Josef Hilltrom guilty of the crime for which he has been convicted.
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Signed
Mr. Gust Soderstrom
505 So. 5th st.
Mrs Gust Soderstrom
505 So 5th st
Mr. Harry Ollman
410 10th St.
Mrs Harry Ollman
410 10th St.
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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 Josef Hillstrom be set aside and clemency extended.
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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
