. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. TWO YEARS IN THE PEN FOR FLIMFLAMMING FLORISTS l^OT Advertiser who failed to keep faith with Review readers, at this paper's complaint, gets prison term at hard labor wo years at ; It I was Judge Kenesaw M. Landis who spoke, in the [United States Circuit court at Chicago March 28, and I his words closed the inci- dent of August Miller, La Grange, 111.; Albert Frei, Pittsburgh, and Fred Klein, of Colona, Pa., whose real name is August Pajonk. The charge against Pajonk was us- ing the mails to defraud; his mistake was in not keeping away
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. TWO YEARS IN THE PEN FOR FLIMFLAMMING FLORISTS l^OT Advertiser who failed to keep faith with Review readers, at this paper's complaint, gets prison term at hard labor wo years at ; It I was Judge Kenesaw M. Landis who spoke, in the [United States Circuit court at Chicago March 28, and I his words closed the inci- dent of August Miller, La Grange, 111.; Albert Frei, Pittsburgh, and Fred Klein, of Colona, Pa., whose real name is August Pajonk. The charge against Pajonk was us- ing the mails to defraud; his mistake was in not keeping away from The Re- view. Over the names of Albert Frei and Fred Klein, another trade paper printed Pajonk's ads after they had been re- fused by The Review, but his arrest, indictment and conviction was solely on evidence placed in the hands of postoffice inspectors by The Review. After Pajonk had disappeared from La Grange, 111., and been located by The Review as . operating under the name of Frei at Pittsburgh, the post- office inspector at Chicago sent two men to the Pennsylvania city to make the arrest. They there found evidence that the man also was operating a matrimonial swindle, (but the case presented by The Review was so clear that no use was made of any- thing else. Pajonk's great mistake, therefore, was in not keeping faith with the readers of The Review. The Trial. When Pajonk was ar- rested he had a sum of money on him that the United States C o m m i s - sioner permitted him to use to employ an attorney and to obtain bail. But Pajonk jumped his $5,000 bail bond in Pittsburgh; when wanted, his attorney could not produce him. Knowing a number ^ of banks in which Pajonk had trifling balances, the postoffice people watched these until they found their man, rearrested him and brought him to Chicago. At the trial, March 27, Pajonk pleaded guilty to the charge. The judge was the man who attained world-wide celebrity by assessing the famous twen- ty-seven-million-dollar fine a
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