JUDGE, WITNESSES, COUNSEL AND JURY

Judge	Mr. G. K. Chesterton
Counsel for the Prosecution	Mr. J. Cuming Walters
	and
	Mr. B. W. Matz
Counsel for the Defence	Mr. Cecil Chesterton
	and
	Mr. W. Walter Crotch
John Jasper	Mr. Frederick T. Harry
(Lay Precentor at Cloisterham Cathedral)
Anthony Durdles	Mr. Bransby Williams
(The Cloisterham Stonemason)
The Revd. Septimus Crisparkle	Mr. Arthur Waugh
(Minor Canon at Cloisterham Cathedral)
Miss Helena Landless	Mrs. Laurence Clay
(Ward of Mr. Honeythunder)
“’Er Royal Higness Princess Puffer”	Miss J. K. Prothero
(The Opium Woman)
[Thomas] Bazzard	Mr. C. Sheridan Jones
(Clerk to Mr. Grewgious)
The Clerk of Arraigns	Mr. Walter Dexter
The Usher	Mr. A. E. Brookes Cross
Police Officers	Mr. H. H. Pearce
	and
	Mr. C. H. Green

The Jury will be chosen from among the following:

Mr. George Bernard Shaw (foreman)	Mr. Coulson Kernahan
Sir Francis C. Burnand	Mr. Edwin Pugh
Sir Edward Russell	Mr. William de Morgan
Dr. W. L. Courtney	Mr. Arthur Morrison
Mr. W. W. Jacobs	Mr. Raymond Paton
Mr. Pett Ridge	Mr. Francesco Berger
Mr. Hilaire Belloc	Mr. Ridgwell Cullum
Mr. Tom Gallon	Mr. Justin Huntly McCarthy
Mr. Max Pemberton	Mr. Oscar Browning
Mr. G. S. Street	Mr. Wm. Archer

Barristers, Reporters and Spectators.

INDICTMENT
of
JOHN JASPER

Lay Precentor of Cloisterham Cathedral, in the County of Kent,

for the

MURDER

EDWIN DROOD, Engineer.

TRIAL

Holden at the ASSIZES at WESTMINSTER,
on the 7th January, 1914.

ASSIZE COURT	}	To wit:
KING’S HALL, COVENT GARDEN
County of LONDON

The Jurors for this trial upon their oath[1] present, that JOHN JASPER on the 24th day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty in the Parish of Cloisterham and within the jurisdiction of the said Court, feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought did kill and murder one EDWIN DROOD against the peace of every true Dickensian.

JUDGE, WITNESSES, COUNSEL AND JURY

INDICTMENTofJOHN JASPER

INDICTMENT
of
JOHN JASPER