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: Thank you. That is all.

Witness: Thank you, sir. I’ll drink your health on the way home, p’raps twice, and I won’t go home till morning.

[Durdles Cross-examined.]

Mr. Crotch: One moment, please.

Witness: Oh, beg pardon, sir, beg pardon.

Mr. Crotch: Now, Durdles, you know all about the destructive qualities of quicklime?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Crotch: Do you say that quicklime will not destroy metals?

Witness: No; I don’t think quicklime will destroy metals.