Mr. Hubert. You thought there was a resemblance between that picture and this man?
Mrs. Rich. Yes. For a week this bothered me. And all of a sudden it came crystal clear.
Mr. Hubert. What became clear?
Mrs. Rich. That unless I was way off base, that is who it was. And I do know that a lot of people——
Mr. Hubert. It was a week after the third meeting?
Mrs. Rich. Yes. I had been trying to put a name to that face.
Mr. Hubert. Well, now, what else happened at the third meeting?
Mrs. Rich. Well, No. 1, the raise of ante was turned down. The colonel asked us if we would accept $15,000. My husband started to say something. I hushed him up and said “No.” I said, “I don’t know. I want some time to think about it.” So then the phone rang, and quite a lengthy conversation took place in the other room. I could not swear to who was on the other end of the phone, I have a pretty good idea. And the colonel came back out and said, “I don’t know. We are going to call this off for a while anyway. There has just been a change of plans. We are going to have to postpone this for 3 or 4 months. There will be one more meeting.” And at that time I stood up and I said, “Look, quite frankly I don’t believe we want any part of this at all.” All I wanted to do then and there was to get the devil out of there. I quite frankly was scared. So I grabbed my old man and we cleared out.
Mr. Hubert. But before clearing out, you told them you wanted no part of it.
Mrs. Rich. Yes; that was after the colonel had said there was going to be a 3- or 4-month delay and change of plans, and all this, that and the other. I did not quite figure that maybe things were kosher.