Trial of John Jasper, lay precentor of Cloisterham Cathedral in the County of Kent, for the murder of Edwin Drood, engineer

by England) Dickens Fellowship (London

Mr. Chesterton: Do you consider those motives adequate to induce you to take the course you say you took?

Witness: I do.

Mr. Chesterton: Enough to make you take all risks?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Chesterton: To go all lengths?

Witness: To the risk of my life.

Mr. Chesterton: Your life?

Witness: He was all I had.

Mr. Chesterton: Enough to compel you to do anything?

Witness: Anything that was right and true. You can’t catch me that way.