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: Your name is Durdles?

Witness: Durdles is my name.

Mr. Walters: Do you always call yourself Durdles?

Witness: I do; ’cause my name is Durdles.

Mr. Walters: You are a stonemason, I believe?

Witness: Ay; Durdles is a stonemason.

Mr. Walters: Would you mind telling us where you work?

Witness: Durdles works anywhere he can, up and down, round about the Cathedral.

Mr. Walters: Round about the Cathedral. Thank you. Very good. Do you happen to know the prisoner, John Jasper?

Witness: Ay; I knows John Jarsper.