. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. I HIS is the tale of a florist who appears to have found easy money too great a temptation. Also, it is an admonition, if there are others similarly inclined, that they would better not try any tricks on readers of The Review. It is the story of August Pajonk, once an honest florist, now a man of many aliases, in jail for want of a bonds- man and facing a term in federal pri- son. He was arrested at Pittsburgh last week, by C. H. Clarahan and A. E. Ger- mer, from the office of General James E. Stuart, chief postoffice inspector at Chicago, who went
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. I HIS is the tale of a florist who appears to have found easy money too great a temptation. Also, it is an admonition, if there are others similarly inclined, that they would better not try any tricks on readers of The Review. It is the story of August Pajonk, once an honest florist, now a man of many aliases, in jail for want of a bonds- man and facing a term in federal pri- son. He was arrested at Pittsburgh last week, by C. H. Clarahan and A. E. Ger- mer, from the office of General James E. Stuart, chief postoffice inspector at Chicago, who went to Pittsburgh as the result of information placed in their hands by The Review. Pajonk was given a hearing before the United States Commissioner at Pittsburgh Feb- ruary 12 and was held under $5,000 bonds to await the action ef the Fed- eral grand jury. How Pajonk Operated. Apparently Pajonk had intended do- ing an honest business; he advertised and took orders with the idea of picking up the stock to fill them. But it was not so easy or so profitable as it had prom- ised to be—the temptatiou was great, with a pocket- ful of other people's money and no home ties, to pull out, change names, and try it over again somewhere else. Pajonk succumbed. Pajonk knows the trade thoroughly. He made just one mistake: he overlooked the zealousness with which The Review guards the in- tegrity of its advertising columns. That was what got him the chance to de- fend himself on the charge of using the mails to de- fraud. "When Pajonk slipped he rented a postoffice box at La Grange, 111., just outside of Chicago, under the name of August Miller. He sent two small classified ads to The Review, accompanied by cash, for publication over the La Grange address. There were nearly 1,000 separate classified ads in that issue, originating all over America, and it is a matter of simple impossi- bility for the publishers to have intimate acquaint- ance with all the advertis- ers. But when a Chicago
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