Show HILLS rom PAYS PEN A L TY FOR CRIME CONVICTED MURDERER MtR DERER OF SALT LAKE GROCER AND HIS SON EXECUTED AT PRISON final efforts to secure stay of execution prove futile and con damned myn min facts firing squad after hight quent in sleep steep salt lake city josepa hillstrom convicted of the murder of J G anfor or risen and hie his son J arling january 10 1914 WM was executed at the state stat prison friday niday morning hillstrom HU latrom WAS sentenced to be shot on september 4 1914 but a delay of the date of execution was secured and he was re r sentenced to be executed on october 1 1915 at the request of president wilson in compliance with a request of the S swedish edish minister governor spry granted a respite un til tit the board of pardons could con can elder alder the case tho the board of pardons considered the angeal for clemency and denied it and on october 18 hillstrom HUl was again sentenced to be shot on november 19 another request tor for clemency came from president wilson two tw days before the execution asking for clemency declaring that his obliga lions as chief executive of the corn mon wealth of utah and his 1113 oata as governor to enforce the laws of the i state precluded his interference with the courts order for the joseph hillstrom Hlll strom convicted murderer gov william spry after careful consideration of president wll wil sona sons request declined to act on the appeal of the nations chief tor for reconsideration of the hallstrom Hlll strom case hallstrom Hlll strom went to the death chair without faltering he ile preserved the same calm demeanor that has been characteristic of him gluen he was as first arrested during the greater part of his last night on earth hillstrom Hlll strom slept sound ly y when he awakened he said he felt well with the exception of a sore throat his ills voice was husky A message received by governor spry at friday morning caused the governor to get into touch with members of tho boad board of pardons the was bom om judge allton of at denver and ad sald william busky of seattle biad made affidavit that he was with hillstrom Hlll strom on th the night ol 01 the murder asked for a respite of ten days to HIU hill atrom aheu asked if he knew busky dusky denied he knew of such a man this decided the governor to order the ex elution without delay joseph hillstrom Hlll strom was convicted cf ot the murder of john G morrison Morr lson a grocer and his son J arling 17 years old at morrisons store in the southern portion of the city about 9 on the evening of january 10 1914 the shooting was witnessed by merlin morrison another son 14 years old according to this boys etory story which was corroborated on an many points by other evidence two masked men nien entered the store drawn pistols and aud baying we wove ve got you now opened are on morri eon son who fell mortally rounded wounded with a bullet though his chest 1 I arling Morr Morri idoa ion ran to an ice ti tox in the store seized a 38 calabre rei revolver olver and fired before the boy could shoot nain he fell pierced by three bul but lets and died almost instantly hillstrom Hlll strom also kno knon an 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 home horne two to hours after the shooting with a urge large bullet wound through his left luns lung he lie told the doctor he be had been becu shot in a quarrel a or or a woman omen aad requested that noting te be eald said regarding bis his visit or wound the doctor not having heard of the murders treated the wound and took hillstrom Hlll strom to the house of the brothers in mur ray my where he bad been spending several days accounts ol 01 the murders recalled the case to the doctor and he informed ism 1 officers ahe he doctor noticed an automatic of the sarn sann 3 callb calibre rf as shells found folind in the grocery after the shoot ing in stroms pocket hulstrom hillstrom threw the weapon aay ay after leaving learing the doctors home honie blood ams ua found at several places in A general south erly direction from the store and members of the family said a companion had bad visited him late the eight of the murders talked privately ate with him and let this man was cot not apprehended and has bas not brer bren beard board of since the th 8 office bald ld it waa wax otto Appleq ul it who he had for or some una timm been tre ins corn com pealon |