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. Chesterton: And you did so?

Witness: I did so. Yes.

Mr. Chesterton: When you went down, how did the case present itself to you as a problem?

Witness: I thought from what Mr. Grewgious told me about the case, that there were three cardinal mysteries. One was why Drood, if he had been murderously assaulted, could give no clear account, as to who had assaulted him; the second was why, if the prisoner was the author of that murderous assault, he had not effected it; and in the third place, why, having failed to kill Drood, he obviously thought he had killed him.

Mr. Chesterton: Having put those three things to yourself, you went down to Cloisterham and disguised yourself?

Witness: I went to a costumier.

Mr. Chesterton: You did not make up your face?

Witness: No.

Mr. Chesterton: You were not known there?

Witness: As far as I know, no.