The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-07-31
GOLD D|GGERS" LIVED
LANSHLY ON SW|NDLES
ACTRESSES HAD MENSE
FORTUNE SHoWERED ON
THEM BY BUCKETERS.
LITERALLY REVELED In LUXURIES
Money Taken From Trusting Inves-
tors Bougkt Jewels and Furs for
Gay Women. Exposure of Billion
Dollar Swindle Ring.


NEW YORK, N. 1.-TWO women
| sit daily in court room listening in
tently to the testimony of witness af-
ter witness in the exposure of New
York's billion dollar swindle ring"
One, a 58-year-ol woman bearing
every earmark of refinement and re-
spectability, brought to the verge of
poverty through the Vaccinations of
inscriptions men, typifies the tragedy
and ruin that follow in the wake of
bucket shops. She invested the money
she received on her husbands life in
surance policy in the expectation of
increasing her income to assure her
she was investing it, but she was on
ly specializing in bucket shop and
all of her money was swept away
She was the victim and there have
been thousands like her.
Where the Money Went.
The other, young woman grown
old before her time, is living evidence
of where the money went. Her Aashy
but expensive frock and her carefully
enameled face only accentuate the
crow's-feet of dissipation under her
eyes, Jewels cover her fingers and
arms and outside the court room
awaits the foreign-made automobile
that brought her from her $40, ,000-a-
year apartment
She is the typical Broadway gold
digger" and the more victims there
are for crooked brokers to fleece the
more of her kind the latter must have
on whom to lavish their luxury. Into
her sealskin coats, her sheer hosiery.
luxurious house furnishings and wild
parties" have gone the savings of
men and women-mostly women-of
small means all over the United
States.
She Is "WIl O. Wisp."
The older woman freely admits her
identity; she has nothing to conceal.
But the younger one does not; there
are too many of her, for one thing,
and it is not the custom for gilded
will-o' -the-wisp to reveal anything.
She affects the poise and hauteur OF
social dowager but you can see
through the gloss and detect the tarn-
ish beneath.
Two men of one of the leading
bucket shops of the country, now re-
pose in jail in New York. Out Of the
closets of their lives skeletons have
arisen to point bony fingers at them.
They are E. M. Fuller and w. F. Nc
Gee, of the defunct brokerage house
of F. NJ. Fuller & Co. They are held
in Jail in contempt of court after
their conviction because they refused
to tell what they did with the S.,
100000 which more than $4,000 per-
sons gave them with which to buy
stocks and bonds.
Three women have come into the
limelight in this case. Fuller was pict-
ured in a suit instituted by Nellie
Black, motion picture actress, as
man who had kept her in a love
nest" for eight months and had law
ished $l25,000 on her in that time.
Nellie Sheehan Likes Fights.
Then there is Nellie Sheehan, who
boasts that she was the first woman
to witness a prize fight in America.
She was brought up on the East Side
and has married often. She maintained
home in a gay section of New York
for years, and among her acquaint-
ances were many noted gamblers of
her time. She took MCGEE, former
office boy, married him and set him
up in business in which he prospered
with the aid of her influential friends.
After having risen from Office boy
to man of means MCGEE was
brought into contact with the higher
side OF gay life So he and Nellie
IL ed h.
took as his wife Louise Groody, an
actress, who rose from the cabarets
OF Coney Island to be the star in
I Good Morning, Dearie," Broadway
success. Miss Groody stepped aboard
boat for Europe while process serv-
ers searched for her. The state has
charged that she has at least 81, $780,,
600 of the $5,000,000 missing from the
Fuller firm.
Nellie Is "Over There"
Nellie Sheehan had preceded her
successor to Paris and had married
again She and her husband now
operate an American bar there, and
it is favorite gathering place for
American sportsmen and women.
While attorneys are seeking more
than a half million dollars that dis
appeared in the crash of Dillon & Co.
another firm OF brokers, Dandy
Phil' Kastel, who backed the con-
Germ, is in hiding. In the record of
the referee this statement appears:
I'm less than six months the great
er part of the monies and the pro-
ceeds of securities collected from the
creditors, amounting in all TO over
$574,861, has been dissipated and
squandered in the profligacy of upper
Broadway, IN cabarets. restaurants
and road houses, and upon race track
touts, moving picture actresses and
gamblers. for alimony, housekeeping
apartments, fur coats, haberdashery,
monogrammed cigarettes, automobiles
and various other similar expenses -
Movie Actress Mentioned
OF this sum of more than half a.
million Dandy Phir' is alleged to
have spent at least $150,000 upon
Doris Sheehan, movie actress. A Mad
ison avenue furrier testified that Kas-
tel bought sealskin coat for 1901
and had it delivered to Miss .Sheehan.
The surface has not been scratched.
the state contends, in the revelations
of lust how deeDlv the "oold dieoere,,