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

Mr. Crotch: I put it to you again. In what state were the windows of the crypt in 1860?

Witness: Do you mean clean or dirty?

Mr. Crotch: I put it to you they were in a very broken condition?

Witness: Yes, sir; always broken.

Mr. Crotch: As a matter of fact, they were not only broken, weren’t they, but partially boarded up?

Witness: Well, I can’t remember, sir.

Mr. Crotch: Can’t remember! You were constantly in the crypt!

Witness: Some of ’em.

Mr. Crotch: How many windows are there?

Witness: I don’t know.