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he had acted as chauffeur and had driven people to closed meetings of the action groups of the Communist party, and that among them was Bridges. He drove, he said, Bridges and others with him to a number of meetings, some of which he specified. One was in the woods somewhere, way in back of a lake where there was a large camp house of some sort where they had held a meeting. He made that rather special because he had to wait so long for them. He was not admitted to that meeting. He had to wait way into the middle of the night, way into two or three o'clock in the morning, to take them back to wherever they came from.

As I remember it, this was about all the testimony. I can't lay my hands now upon the original written report which came from Bonham in which he gave this information which had been given him by Milner. Milner, of course, later developed it to a much greater length and much more detail. I think that Milner described two specific occasions in which he had driven Bridges to a closed meeting, into one of which he himself had also gone. I remember questioning that and saying, “He must have been very much trusted by these Communists,” as indeed he was. They thought of him as one of themselves.

There was an episode. I'm not sure that it was related by Milner, but by somebody else whom Milner