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Island. That was the detention station and that was where a good deal of the work was done. We would have had to secure a courtroom in San Francisco by borrowing it from a court, which could have been done if we had had a hearing of any size. I had decided in the midst of all this rumpus of impeachment, accusation, and so forth, that this hearing, although it was unusual - in fact, it was practically never done in immigration cases should have public witnesses present. That was not done in immigration cases. A person given a warrant for deportation is given a hearing, is permitted to have his next of kin present - brother, wife, or some thing like that - and his counsel. Nobody else is present except the immigration inspectors. The immigration inspector makes a charge and the immigration examiner sits as judge and hears the evidence, making the decision. It's all held in the offices of the Immigration Service and there is nobody else present. There is, of course, a record made of the testimony. That's all.

However, I had decided that because of all the bickering there had been on this, to make sure that nobody could ever say that there had been any concealment