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: And you watched him in Cloisterham?

Witness: In the street. He never took any there.

Mr. Walters: You believe that possibly he made a desperate attack on Edwin Drood?

Witness: Yes, I think so.

Mr. Walters: He would possibly make an attack on someone else?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Walters: Don’t you think, therefore, you were in some danger?

Witness: I don’t think I was.

Mr. Walters: You don’t think you were in danger from a man who might make an attack? Are you a man of very great nerve?