Trial of Passion

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Please sit down if you’d be more comfortable, Dr. Hawthorne. This is only a preliminary hearing, quite informal. (Witness sits.)

A

At 137 Palmer Avenue in West Vancouver.

Q

Do you live there alone?

A

I am a widower. I have a housekeeper — Mrs. Mary Mcintosh.

Q

Okay, and your neighbour on your left, as you face the street, that would be 141 Palmer?

A

Yes.

Q

And do you know who lives there?

A

Professor Jonathan O’Donnell.

Q

He’s acting dean of law at the University of British Columbia?

A

Yes, I have known him for many years.

Q

And do you see him in court?

A

Sitting right there.

Q

Identifying 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?

A

I 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.

Q

And did something later awake you?

A

There was a great hullabaloo at the front door. I’m not sure what time it was, in the small hours at least. Mrs. Mcintosh has her room upstairs at the back, so I was first to the door.

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