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: You did not keep the usual records making your investigations in Cloisterham?

Witness: What are the usual records?

Mr. Walters: I put it to you that you did not write anything down?

Witness: I did.

Mr. Walters: Why did you use the chalk marks?

Witness: Merely as a matter for my own amusement.

Mr. Walters: Were they to be used in any way?

Witness: I should say not.

Mr. Walters: You valued your time so much that you wasted it by putting chalk marks on a door!