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

Witness: No.

Mr. Walters: You were not preparing for the part of Datchery in advance?

Witness: Datchery never snored, did he?

Mr. Walters: You were not preparing a part?

Witness: I had no idea that Mr. Drood was going to be murdered.

Mr. Walters: You were not pretending, therefore?

Witness: I was not.

Mr. Walters: You are a man of short sentences, according to the Official Record?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Walters: Very abrupt?