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1487 THE ALGER HISS TRIAL
was white, but it was a garish yellow. She said that the brick walls at Volta Place were white, but they were red. She talked about a concrete porch, which wasn't put there until 1946.
And what about these weekly meetings that Chambers said took place between 5 P.M. and 6 P.M. ? Clau-dia Catlett always answered the door. But Mrs. Catlett testified that she only saw Chambers once.
The prosecution said Mrs. Hiss typed the documents at night. But their neighbor, Geoffrey May, said he never heard a typewriter at night. And he would have heard it, because after the Hisses moved, a reporter moved in, and created much annoyance at night when he typed.
Wadleigh said the only time he ever saw Chambers was on a dark street corner when he passed him the briefcase or when he got back the briefcase. Wadleigh never met Mrs. Chambers. He was never in their home. Chambers was never at the Wadleighs'. That is how fellow conspirators treat each other. Hiss would have been crazy, if he had ever had any criminal connection with Chambers, to go to his house and go on trips with him.
When Chambers was asked to produce evidence that Hiss was a Communist, he produced an envelope with the secret documents. But no one saw him open the envelope and pull out the documents. And every
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