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 know anyone who saw the murder?

Witness: No.

Mr. Chesterton: Have you seen his body?

Witness: No.

Mr. Chesterton: Do you know anyone who has seen it?

Witness: I don’t think his body could be seen.

Mr. Chesterton: Then you really have no evidence to produce to prove that Edwin Drood is dead?

Witness: I have the ring.

Mr. Chesterton: That is all the evidence—your whole case? I want to press this point very much. On that ring your case rests. Is that so?

Witness: I am not a woman who understands very much about legal proceedings. It is the first time I have been in court. It is a hard thing for a clever man like you to put a question like this to an unsophisticated witness.