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: And very ambitious?

Witness: I have not said so.

Mr. Walters: Don’t you want to get on?

Witness: I don’t think that is very ambitious. I think being very ambitious is more than wanting to get on.

Mr. Walters: In order to get on you came to London from Norfolk?

Witness: A good many people have done that before, I am afraid.

Mr. Walters: You wanted to give London the benefit of any genius you had?

Witness: Thank you very much indeed. I wanted to be usefully employed.

Mr. Walters: And you became professionally engaged to Mr. Grewgious?

Witness: Yes.