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: Did you afterwards meet the white-haired gentleman you have spoken of?

Witness: I did, deary.

Mr. Crotch: Did you tell him you knew the prisoner?

Witness: I told him that I knew him.

Mr. Crotch: Yes?

Witness: I said, “I know him. I know him better than all the Reverend Parsons put together knows him.”

Mr. Crotch: Thank you.

[“Princess Puffer” Cross-examined.]

Mr. Walters: Just one question. When you met Edwin Drood, I think you told him “Ned” was a threatened name?

Witness: Yes, deary.