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: Not that I can remember.

Mr. Crotch: If you cannot remember admitting Datchery, do you at any time remember admitting anybody else?

Witness: No; I can’t say as I do.

Mr. Crotch: Thank you, Mr. Durdles.

Mr. Walters: I won’t trouble you to re-examine you, Mr. Durdles.

Witness: Well, good day. I’ll drink your health on the way home, and I won’t go home till morning—I beg your pardon, my Lord.

[Evidence of Reverend Canon Crisparkle.]

Mr. Walters: The Reverend Canon Crisparkle.

Usher: Reverend Canon Crisparkle.

[That gentleman responded to the call, and entering the witness box, was duly sworn.]