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Show 317 granting of the respite and at President, without stating any for, again wire urging a thorough consideration because of its importance and the justice and after Forty-six days the eleventh hour reason there of case, the of advisability such the as you, a interference Your course. the n case may have elevated it to an undue importance and the receipt of thousands of threatening letters, demandng the release of Hillstrom regardless of his guilt or nnocence, may attach peculiar importance to it, but n Utah the case is important as only establishing, after a fair and impartial trial, the guilt of one of the perpetrators of one of the most atrocious murders ever committed in this state. As to your suggestion that justice requires further consideration of the case, I earnestly submit that the imputation contained, not only in a your message of the A. F. the me, but L., that of courts I to of this of the nternational of knowledge the that facts, of office facts Tangible this in to and will cannot your request is based there is some reason at postponement nterference with oath that to see must that it 7:42 a.m., Convict home as be reopening Prison, in the finally was bullets four Salt at city, 102Ibid., Lake the of the laws be would time an a full I feel unwarranted an obligations enforced, of my I are Spryl02 President Wilson On case. executed. pierced a He City. 689-690. His thousands was body was marched November pronounced executed closed officially Friday, target placed Hillstrom--was and while pp. to Hill's Joe 3256"--Joseph "No. miscon of case. Hillstrom Joseph State of on myself or my office to such interference. presented before I will further interfere Governor's telegram the matter in lend W. The this Mindful justice. not President justice justified. not that or had not With you have not disclosed. facts and circumstances submitted, the further is has the to message your convict that nature all in this state convnced fully am ception also over in taken dead his 19, at heart. Sugarhouse to a funeral past his coffin a 1915, |
