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Show HILLSTROM STOLID BEFORE A MINISTER Salt Lake, Jan. 27. "Yes, I believe be-lieve I have heard about him," was the laconic answer yesterday or Joseph Jo-seph Hlllstrom, when in his cell in the county jail he was told by a minister min-ister that through faith in Christ lay salvation for the truly repentanL As he made the remark, the man held as a participant in the slaying of John G. Morrison and his son, John A. Morrison, smiled derisively. Though the conversation was pressed by the Churchman. HIllRtrnm rofrnlnorl fpnm taking part further. He listened without comment to tlie exhortation addressed to him, but made no sign that he was repentant for anything that he had ever done or that ho craved salvation through forgiveness for sin. So far Hlllstrom has vouchsafed no other explanation of the bullet wound in his side, from which he was suffering suf-fering when taken from the Esilus home In Murray, than that first offered, of-fered, that it was suffered on the night of January 10, the night of the Morrison murders, in a quarrel over a woman. The Identity of the woman he still stubbornly refuses to divulge, posing in the heroic attitude of being be-ing determined to keep her name from being smirched. When addressed, he listens indifferently indiffer-ently to whatever is said to him, whether addressed by jailer or minister. min-ister. Itl makes little difference whether the subject be repentance or robbery and murder, it Is said. ' He remains unmoved for an occasional remark, such as quoted above. |