But he has never seen them again. It's a startling tale, which Randy Duplak, his lawyer at the time, remembers to this day. It was almost like a spy game you see on a TV movie. You didn't see it in real life. Fox says smoking was the reason he was given for being kicked out of the Witness congregation in Dartmouth's Woodlawn area.
Smoking is still grounds for being disfellowshipped.
Influenced by Fox's mother, Catherine converted to the Witnesses. Sadly, his wife suffered from mental illness and attempted suicide twice, he says. In 1965, she took their young son Terry and left Arnold, aided in hiding by Witnesses in Toronto, he says. Duplak says the medical records were obtained to satisfy lawyers that Catherine wasn't running because Fox was abusive. He knew that made him vulnerable with the Witnesses, because as the father and an obvious doubter, he could try to override the group's ban on blood transfusions if his children were under medical care.