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: Do you remember his reply?

Witness: He said, “Yes; I am afraid that is true, although I took very little to drink.”

Mr. Crotch: “Although I can satisfy you at another time that I had very little to drink.” I put it, those were the words he used?

Witness: Doubtless.

Mr. Crotch: You said you went down to the weir, which is two miles from the river?

Witness: No; two miles from the point at which Edwin Drood and Neville Landless went down to watch the storm. It is two miles higher up.

Mr. Crotch: And it was there you found the articles you have described?

Witness: That is so.

Mr. Crotch: What was the position of the watch and chain?

Witness: It was adhering to the timbers. Where two timbers crossed, it had become fixed.