New-York tribune., 1922-09-23
Dillon Inquiry
Shows Actress
Got 500 Coat
Paid For by DANDY Phil"
kastel, Who Told Witness
He Was Whole Thing i'm
Bankrupt Brokers' Firm
5000 Paid to Lawyer
Fallon Got This i'm 2 Months;
$50 That's Where Cash
Went!" Says Customer

The payment to William J. Fallon,
lawyer, by Dillon & Co., bankrupt stock
brokers, of $3.50 in a period of two
months and the purchase for Doris
| Sheerin, motion picture actress, of q
Hudson seal coat by Dandy Phil"
Kastel, who handed the furrier Dillon
G. Co. check for 500 in payment, was
told of in the Dillon bankruptcy hear
ing yesterday. 1t also was learned
from witness that Kastel proclaimed
himself "the whole works" at Dillon &
Co., labelling Dillon as a mere figure
! head, and that more than $1,000 had
been paid to a man believed to be in
Jail.
Keyes Winter, trustee in bankruptcy,
examining Sam Goldberg, a former Dill
Ion bookkeeper, followed the intricate
trail of the Fallon account through the
| books Of the concern. He found that
/ it led to an account under the name
Ernest Eidlitz," which also bore the
title of Account No. 1000" Mr. Win
ter took an entry of SO 900, which is the
amount Of check No. 1850, that was
finally deposited to the account of Ger
trude Vanderbilt, Of "The Gold Dig
gers" show
Thinks 1t Was a Secret
What accounted for your entering
that $4,000 Fallon entry in Account
No. 2,000?" Mr.. Winter asked the
witness
"Probably because they did not want
any one to know whose it was, and
they told me to enter it under No.
2,000," Goldberg answered.
On July 7, 1921. 81 900 check had
been given Fallon, and on August 18
| following the account showed a debit
Of $l25.
Mr.. Water followed this testimony
with questions about Sam Smith, who
received a total of 1880 from the
Dillon firm. After rapid fire of qucs-
tions Goldberg reluctantly admitted
that Sam Smith might be Frank
Taylor, who is serving q term in Sing
Sing.
Louis S. Rifkin, furricr, told about
the coat. He had his order book to
support his oral testimony. The coat,
he said, had collar and suffs Of mink,
and the payment was made by Kastel
in person October 81, 1920. Kastel
probably found the fur shop at 1899
Madison Avenue through Harold Son
ting, a friend of Rifkin. who was con-
nected with Dillon & Co. The entry
showed that the coat was for Doris
Sheerin.
$50 That's How Our Money Went"
Sam slverman, 149 Broadway, who
| listened interestedly to Rifkin's testi-
mony and who followed him on the
witness stand, remarked with a smile
as he took the stand:
so that's how our money went!"
Silverman lost only 81 900, because
when Dillon & Co. asked him for more
margin on LOCO shares of Alaska and
British Columbia Mining Company Sill
verman asked them to send him the
stock at once, when he would remit
He never got the stock nor his money.
Dillon told him, Silverman testified,
that the stock had been hypothecated
and he would have to wait until Kastel
could recover it. Then Kastel told Sill
verman that Dillon was only figure
head, and that he himself "owned the
place He also said Dillon had stolen
money from him, and exhibited a $15,-
600 check, which he charged was part
of the loot.
Between Dillon and Kastel. one re-
ferring him to the other and back
again Silvarman finally called off ali
deals with the concern and quit.
The next hearing will be on Scptem
Der 26 at 9 o'clock