I am not afraid of death, but I'd like to be in the fight a little longer.
-Joe Hill
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Tuesday May 11, 1915
Salt Lake City, Utah - The Rebel Girl, Herself, Visits Joe Hill in the County Jail
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn from the
Fort Scott Daily Tribune-Monitor
of Kansas, April 29, 1915
On May 6th, on her way to California, Miss Elizabeth Gurley Flynn stopped off in Salt Lake City to visit with Fellow Worker Joe Hill who continues to be held in the county jail there. FW Hill has been convicted of murder and has been given a death sentence by the state of Utah. Miss Flynn was allowed to visit with the prisoner face to face in the sheriff's office. She states that she is the first visitor during his long confinement to be allowed to visit with FW Hill face to face and to shake hands with him.
Miss Flynn states that she found Joe Hill to be "tall, slender, very blond, with deep blue eyes." It was a spring day in the "garden city" and the prisoner and his visitor looked out from the prison onto an "expanse of a beautiful lawn."
Joe Hill noted the old bearded man outside who was mowing the lawn, and said to Gurley Flynn, "He's lucky, Gurley. He's a Mormon and he's had two wives and I haven't even had one yet!"
Miss Flynn noted the contrast between the pure mountain air of Utah and the fetid jail odor that assailed the nostrils: "damp air loaded with the sickening smell of disinfectants."
On the subject of the death sentence which he is facing, FW Hill stated:
I am not afraid of death, but I'd like to be in the fight a little longer.
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SOURCE
The Rebel Girl: an autobiography,
my first life (1906-1926)
by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
International Publishers, 1973
https://books.google.com/...
IMAGE
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn from a Fort Scott, Kansas,
newspaper of Apr 29, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
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Letter From Joe Hill to Katie Phar
Salt Lake City
May 7
Katie Phar Spokane Wn
Dear Friend & F. W.
Yours received and am glad to note that you are getting along fine with your music lessons. Am sending you thru the local Sec'y two of my songs and would like to hear how you like them. One of the Songs "The Rebel Girl" was sung at several big meetings in Chicago and was making a bit hit they are telling me. I had the pleasure to shake hands with Gurly Flynn yesterday and she told me that she would be glad to see you when she comes to Spokane. If you would practice up on one of the Songs you could help her a whole lot by singing it at her meeting in Spokane. The Rebel Girl would be best I think because Gurly F. is certainly some Rebel Girl and when [the copy of this letter is incomplete.]
Photograph added.]
SOURCE
The Letters of Joe Hill
-ed by Philip Foner
Oak Publications, 1965
https://books.google.com/...
IMAGE
Follow Worker Joe Hill
http://www.freedomarchives.org/...
Note: Katie Phar was the 10-year-old daughter of a member of the Industrial Workers of the World who lived in Spokane, Washington.
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