Show HILLSTROM PAYS PENALTY FOR CRIME CONVICTED MURDERER OF SALT LAKE GROCER AND HIS SON EXECUTED AT PRISON inal efforts to secure stay of execution rinal prove futile and condemned man paces faces firing squad after night spent in sleep i salt lake city joseph hillstrom Hlll strom convicted of the murder of J 0 mor ahson loon and his son J arling january to ao 1914 was executed at the state arisen friday morning hillstrom was sentenced to bo be shot on september 4 1914 but a delay of the date ot of execution was secured and he was re sentenced to be executed on october 1 1916 1915 at the request of president Preside nf wilson in compliance with W th a request of the swedish minister governor spry granted a respite until the board of pardons could con sider eider tho the case the board of pardons considered the appeal for clemency and denied it and on october 18 hillstrom was azain again sentenced to bo be shot on november 10 19 another request tor for clemency camo came from Pries president ident wilson two days before the execution asking tor for I 1 clemency declaring that his obligations as chief executive of the commonwealth mon wealth of utah and his oath as governor to enforce the laws of the th state precluded his interference with tho the courts order tor for the execution of joseph hillstrom Hlll strom convicted murderer gov william spry after careful consideration of president wll wil sons request declined to act on the appeal of the nations chief tor for reconsideration odthe of the hillstrom Hlll strom case hallstrom Hlll strom om went to the death chair without faltering he preserved the earne carnei calmi calm demeanor that has been character characteristic latic of him since he be was farst arrested during the greater part of hla his last night on earth hillstrom Hlll strom slept soundly when ho he awakened he said he felt elt well with the exception of a gore fioro throat ills his voice was wits husky A message received by governor spry at friday morning caused the governor to get into touch with members of the board of pardons the message was from judge hilton of denver and said william dusky of seattle had made affidavit that he was with hillstrom Hlll strom on the night of the murder hilton asked for a respite of ten days to investigate HIU strom when asked it he knew dusky denied he knew of such a man ahlis decided the governor to order the execution without delay joseph hillstrom Hlll strom was convicted of the murder of john G morrison Morr lson a grocer and his bis son J arling 17 years old at Morri morrisons sons store in the southern aou thern portion of the city about 9 on the evening of january 10 1914 4 the shooting was witnessed by marlin morrison Morr lson another son 14 beirs years old according to this boys story which was corroborated on many points by other evidence two masked men entered the store with drawn pistols and saying weve got you now opened fire on morrl merrl son who tell fell mortally wounded with a bullet though hla his chest J arling morrison Morr lson ran to an ice box in the store seized a 38 calabre revolver and fired detore before the boy could shoot again he fell pierced by three bullets and died almost instantly hillstrom Hlll strom also known as joe hill was arrested three days after the shooting on information given by dr A A bird hillstrom Hlll strom staggered into the doctors homo home two hours after the shooting with a largo bullet wound through his left lung ile he told the doctor he had been shot in a quarrel over a woman and requested that nothing be said regarding his visit or wound the doctor not having peard of the murders treated the and took hillstrom to the boue of tho the edellus brothers in where he had been spending several days accounts of the murders recalled Te called the case to the docar and to fhe informed the officers the doctor noticed an automatic pistol of the same calibre as shells found in the grocery after the shooting in hillstromb Hlll Hill stroms pocket hillstrom Hlll strom adrew the weapon away after leaving the doctors home blood was found at several places in a general south icily direction from the store and fin rm embers of the family said a companion Corn panion had visited him late the night ight of the murders talked private aly y with him and left this man was not ot apprehended and has haa not been peard heard of since the sheriffs office id 1 it was otto applequist who had r for 1 1 some time been hillstromb Hlll Hill stroms com anion |