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To the Hon. 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 County, Utah, for the alleged
killing of J.S. Morrison, and his son, Arling Morrison,
in Salt Lake County, Utah, on January 10, 1914, and of the
affirmance of the judgement of conviction of said District
Court by the supreme Court of the State of Utah, hereby
make appeal to your executive elemency on behalf of said
Hillstrom, and request that you grant him a pardon, for
the following reasons, to wit:

That the said Hillstrom 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 Constitustion 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 thereforeee 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 prevailling in said Salt
Lake County against Hillstrom because of his activity in
the labor movement.

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