Beasts in Cassocks: The Crimes of the Heads of the Russian Greek Catholic Orthodox Church in America/Chapter 11
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Father Daniel Gilevitch
CHAPTER XI.
At the Inquest
The next day Father Slunin and I left for Wilkes-Barre, Pa. There we were met by Yakov Piatetsky, whose affidavit both in English and in Russian, reads as follows:
"Jeanette, Pa.
"STATEMENT
"In the middle of March, 1914, while I resided in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., a certain person came to my residence and—in the presence of John Feoktistoff Dudikoff—introduced himself as a Russian Consul Rutzky, requesting me to serve as plain companion on his official trip to Jermyn, Pa.
"Leaving Wilkes-Barre for New York City—he asked me to furnish him a considerable sum of money as his expenses overran his expectations. Acting in great haste as a train was ready to leave the station, I handed to "consul" requested sum of money in presence and to full knowledge of John F. Dudikoff, being unable to receive any receipt for given amount, only with promise of immediate return.
"After long lapse of years, being unable to discover any trace of whereabouts of said "Consul," I met him unexpectedly in Pittsburgh, Pa., and to my surprise I found out that said person was impostor of Consul Rutzky, and that his real name was Daniel Gilevich.
"P. S. Money has never ben returned, exact amount of which is known also to J. Dudikoff.
Father Slunin said that Consul Rutzky had also come to Wilkes-Barre. We found him in a hotel in dress uniform, his breast covered with medals and crosses. We made his acquaintance and together with this pseudo-Rutzky (it turned out that he was a former village policeman and at present a clergyman, Daniel Gilevich) we went to German, Pa.