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. Crotch: Are you sworn?

Witness: Yes, deary.

Mr. Crotch: Your name, I believe, is Eliza Lascar?

Witness: Yes, deary. Oh, my lungs is so weak!

Mr. Crotch: My dear lady!

Witness: Oh, my lungs!

Mr. Crotch: You are known as “Princess Puffer”?

Witness: Yes, deary. I got Heavens-hard drunk for sixteen year afore I took to this; but this don’t hurt me, not to speak of.

Mr. Crotch: You keep an opium den in the East End of London, I believe?

Witness: I do; but business is slack.