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: If I told you that Jasper, and Jasper alone, called him “Ned”?

Witness: I should believe you, deary. I should believe you.

Mr. Walters: And you would therefore also believe that Jasper was threatening him?

Witness: Yes, deary.

Mr. Walters: And that he meant it?

Witness: Yes, deary.

Mr. Walters: So you think there was murder in the mind of John Jasper?

Witness: I think he wanted to do him harm.

Mr. Walters: Do you love John Jasper?

Witness: No, I don’t.