At the time, he lived near the Tefereth Zion synagogue located at Clinton Place and Nye Avenue in Newark.

One afternoon he saw a moving van pull up in front of the synagogue, soon followed by a plumbing truck. The plumbing truck backed up to the moving van, whose doors had been opened, and the men on the plumbing truck threw numerous lengths of cut pipe, each about three feet in length, onto the van. The plumbing truck then drove away.

Once the pipes were aboard the moving van, the synagogue doors opened and about 20-25 men emerged and climbed aboard the van. The van then took off in the direction of Irvington.

Next day, the friend said, he read in the Newark Ledger that they'd broken up a German-American Bund meeting about three fourths of a mile away in Irvington.