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: Yes.

Mr. Walters: Have you given us only two or three words to-night in your sentences?

Witness: I have been answering under some provocation.

Mr. Walters: Did your Counsel provoke you to your long sentences?

Witness: I trust not.

Mr. Walters: Were you pretending when you gave those short sentences in Mr. Datchery’s character?

Witness: No; but a man in the witness-box is not a good criterion.

Mr. Walters: I suppose you can write?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Walters: I suppose your professional standing teaches you to keep correct records?