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. Walters: What did you mean by “threatened”?

Witness: It was a bad name.

Mr. Walters: Do you think a man threatened is in danger?

Witness: It sounds like it, deary, don’t it?

Mr. Walters: It does. I want you to agree with me. I think you were in the habit of listening to Mr. Jasper when he had a little opium?

Witness: That is so.

Mr. Walters: Ever hear him say the word “Ned”?

Witness: I can’t recollect. I should think he did.

Mr. Walters: What made you hit upon the name “Ned” as a threatened name?

Witness: He talked about him in a very unkind way.