PATRICIA BLUEMAN QYou are a retired minister? AI was an Anglican bishop. QAnd how old are you? ASeventy-nine. QWhere do you live? THE COURT:Please sit down if you’d be more comfortable, Dr. Hawthorne. This is only a preliminary hearing, quite informal. (Witness sits.) AAt 137 Palmer Avenue in West Vancouver. QDo you live there alone? AI am a widower. I have a housekeeper — Mrs. Mary Mcintosh. QOkay, and your neighbour on your left, as you face the street, that would be 141 Palmer? AYes. QAnd do you know who lives there? AProfessor Jonathan O’Donnell. QHe’s acting dean of law at the University of British Columbia? AYes, I have known him for many years. QAnd do you see him in court? ASitting right there. QIdentifying the accused, for the record. Now I want to take you back to the late-night hours of last Friday, November twenty-seventh. Were you at home on that evening? AI retired at about nine p.m. I had fallen asleep in an armchair while reading and Mrs. McIntosh aroused me and sent me off to bed.
