Show OARD OF PARDONS PARDON S' S INVESTIGATES CLAIMS OF HILLSTROM'S FRIENDS WO WITNESSES ARE HEARD TWO OTHERS SOUGHT Prof Torild W. W Arnoldson Says I He Signed the Cablegram to toI Stockholm Because of His I Opposition to Death Sentence SHERIFFS SHERIFF'S MEN UNABLE TO FIND MRS STEPHEN STEPHENi i After Long Lone Delay Board Adjourns Ad- Ad Adjourns Adjourns Ad Ad- Miss Miss' Bolin Tells of interest Interest in Prisoner When I She Learns He Is Swede Si t i JUSTICE EXAMINES I. I x N a final effort to discover cr some same IK circumstance whereby the death sentence o of J Joseph Hillstrom m might ht be he commuted to life imprisonment the Estate board of pardons held helel a a. special 5 session yesterday afternoon and nd last night hl and f. f summoned before it those F who who have hac been talin tailing tailing- a prominent k Y in the making of protests to des deI determine de- de I s termine whether there existed an any I j facts which would cast doubt upon the I Milt of Hillstrom Prof Torild Toril Torild- Torild V. V Arnoldson Eon of the University of Utah I Mrs Virginia n Snow Stephen in instructor ie- ie tor in art in the un university ersil Miss Sifrid Si Si- Si frid JoHn Bolm and Oscar Larson were j summoned to appear before the board f. f but the tho deputy deput o sheriffs sheriff were ere able ahle to lo locate te only Professor ProCessor Arnoldson anI and Miss iss Bolm HoHn who pave gave c a evidence c before bethe be- be fore the h board ard t T The e sheriffs h rl CI wR fI the the- achy dt for Mrs tn Stephen The deputies found a clew to her whereabouts outs but reported later Inter that when she was informed informed in- in formed over o the telephone that two deputy ut sheriffs were waiting at her I she hun hung up the receiver on the telephone and Imme Immediately lR dropped sight Mr Ir Lar Larson on who lives at I Sandy was not found either The bo boArd rd I adjourned last night after aCter waiting for j i more than three hours for or Mrs Irs Stephen J I Written Statement Given r I Prior to the meeting of th the hoard board rumors ru- ru rui i mors mars were rife that Hillstrom had made madea madet t a a. confession but hut Arthur Pratt warden t of or of the state prison denied dented this and gave to Go Gov William Spry a n written n statement which had been heen prepared pre b b I and nd which covered lo twenty twenty- fight closely elv written pages On the ground that there Micro were no new facts I pet set t up 11 In the tho statement the board of or i pardons took up the matter of giving 1 It c to the public under advisement I Prior to Issuance of the statement Oscar W N Carlson arlson Swedish consul vis- vis 1 at the state stale prison and andr j r urged him to give gl to him hum or to the state stale ri l' board of or pardons some ome facts which It t could auld bo be used In the obtaining obtainIng- of or a commutation of fent sentence nce or which ht bo ho used d to obtain a reprieve V i t. t Hillstrom would not give e an any additional Information to Mr 11 Carlson and last Inight 5 I- I night Mr Ir Carlson Carleon sent a tele telegram ram to toi i the th of or Sweden slating stalin that refused to make malc any state state- meat on the lie matter malter and that he hp reaf- reaf 4 firmed finned his belief that the conviction of l m is Ic legal al and that he had a William at 1 Watson oll Swedish consul general gen gen- cn- cn ral eral at San in also 1180 wired to toGe G e no Gove-no- no Spry Sr asking for the facts fact In Inthe Inthe Inthe the case The same reply as was sent to to the Swedish minister Monday was lent tent the Swedish consul genera general statement nt It was announced by members rs of the u state hoard hoal d o of pardons who read lead the tho statement made by that In Ithe It Ithe Ithe he reargued the tho points brought rou ht out In Insi si the trial of the ca case e before the district J court ourt In opening his hie statement ho asserted as- as f r that It Is nobody's business Lushness how I 1 I was wag shot and ant then launched into n a statement of the case made out b by the state Ho lie then a attacked Hacked the preliminary preliminary prelim prelim- inary examination which was walS given en him Mm an and aleo alto attacked John folio Rollo 1 I. I clerk of the tho supreme court who took tok f the rho shorthand notes noles of the preliminary i j 11 J He al assorted that the notes were 1 riot not correct Th Then n Hillstrom criticized ched In detail the evidence adduced against him at the trial In the district j court lie Ho stated that the tho district attorney at- at torney had not no been heen fair in his t lion Ion of at the case and that his case caso was r I not ably conducted He lie then attacked j Y r. B 13 ono one of his attorneys and said uncomplimentary uncomplimentary- things concernIng concerning concern concern- r ing frig him hum but praised D D. MacDougall MacDougall Mac Mac- Dougall another of hla lilA In lawyers 1 In n conclusion the th statement urged that he hebe her r be Le granted g a new trial but there was waa J nothing in it excepting tho the phrase If I f 5 was uvas shot while m my arms were in the tho Continued on Pa Paso PalO o 2 2 |