Show Fleecing the Unwary for defender and arid adviser Evidence of the need ofa public is accumulative Everyday Every Everyday persons BOn in strained h the urgency of such an day there are fresh cases which ch prove l Three Three cases cases were appealed appealed today to THE TIlE EVENING TELEGRAM TELEGRAM TELE TELE- GRAM I for legal I gal that would have found a public d defender of the men who came to this Two and nd adviser most profitable pape paper pape for for help today vere r loan shark victims One of them who w was s forced to bom w when his wife was ill signed a note to pay s. s several veral hundred p per pr r cent int interest rest a year and is now threatened with exposure if he li cant can't pay up the full amount assessed against him him He He is not able to find steady employment but is working the loan sharks by discharging extra tra a for a company that helps heps all in employees employ es they expose expose He was tas told to take his chances that would defend him if the loan shark hark THE TELEGRAM i attorn attorney y should should be foolish enough to pursue him further and he was also told told old that a special plea would be made with his his' employers against his l is dismissal simply because he has fallen a victim to the money I l I lender en d ere in the lending Another case case showed a a. new wrinkle money game and showed that sometimes even the pawnbrokers pawnbrokers' do not hot grit get a f fair ir deal I One man who vho is employed in the the Hercules Powder camp I In n needed eded 5 5 while here and borrowed it from a second hand dealer He I put up as security s a coat and a watch worth together perhaps perhaps' H He agreed to tp pay payback back 6 the next day When he called hand dealer demanded twice that iq 9 make payment the second amount mount and kept raising the sum that it would take ake to redeem the pawned articles He lIe had worked a scheme on the unthinking and unknowing borrower by having him sign a paper agreeing to toJ J sell the clothes lothes and watch for 6 Now the lender wants wants' him to toI I buy back h his own coat and watch instead of merely redeeming them m. m l i It t is a case of robbery pure and simple and yet public officials tolerate such practices daily This second hand dealer is paying a license of only 25 a year re and is carrying on an and unregulated pawn pawn I I. bu business iness The regular pawnbrokers kers mus must pay pay a license of a aI year and submit to police supervision and inspection They also I m must t. t put up a surety bond of 1000 There has been enough complaint com coal J plaint about them but what about the second hand dealers who are allowed to lend money and fleece the their 1 victims l' l C. C It is about time some public officials did their duty and c cleared ea ed up some of of- these unjust practices Th The victim of this I. latest holdup appealed to the city attorneys attorney's office and was told that there ther was no help for for him because he ha had signed away his rights Yet Tet et he had a witness who could swear that he had been I fraudulently indu induced ed to tosi sign n the paper and who could who testify testify to the tl C verbal agreement Such uch cases as these are repeated daily because the the- men nien who t take k solemn oaths to fig fight t crime refuse to act I |