A. They claimed there was a big boom in real estate and they made another deal; they got 35 or 30 per cent. dividend. Then they started to build eight tenement houses, four on One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Street and four on One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street, near Cyprus Avenue.
At the time they were building, the crash came.
They took advantage of the prices and said, "We have not enough money to keep on; the shareholders will have to come together and pay more money on each share."
I paid $10 extra on each share. At that time my mother had acquired eight shares. She had bought another for herself. Then my cousin had bought two for herself, which she did not want to keep, so my mother told her she would buy them from her.
Q. Did Morello know anything about your going to see Commissioner Wood; did you tell him?
A. Yes. I—
Q. What did you tell him?
A. I said that Commissioner Wood, when he found out that I would not give the information he wanted, said that I was just like the rest of them and then told me that I might go.
Q. Did you tell Morello before you went down?
A. No.