Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-11-19 | Page 19 | Helen Keller Made Plea for Hillstrom

Helen K Keller lt I Made Plea for Hillstrom Helen Keller the noted blind woman woman wom worn an who is opp opposed sed t to capital punishment punish punish- m ment nt telegraphed to President Wilson Wilson Wil ViI son son an and to Governor GO nor Spry yesterday pleading th that clemency be shown I Hillstrom I. I Z f Miss Keller while in Salt Lake a afew afew afew few months ago n a lecture tour e expressed pressed in man in Interview iview her opposition to capital punishment She declared her belief then en to be that the state has not the right to take tak human life Ufe From this It Is is s assumed that Miss Ke Keller had n nd no specific int Interest rest in the tIle Hillstrom case cas further than that it was a case of ot capital punishment that had attra attracted ted ed almost world wide attention 1 tt t President Wilson in response to Miss K Kellers Keller's llers ller's plea for Hillstrom telegraphed telegraphed tele tale graphed to her ber last night as follows I 1 was as very much affected by your telegram and wish wieh most sincerely it was as In my power to do o something but unhappily th there re Is nothing I can cantlo tb The m matter lies entirely beyond my Jurisdiction n and power I have been deeply Interested In the case cases but am balked o of all opportunity