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: As though somebody had gone down with a hammer and nail and hung it up deliberately?

Witness: No, that I would not say.

Mr. Crotch: Was the pin in the mud?

Witness: In the mud.

Mr. Crotch: This was ordinary loose mud?

Witness: Yes, a kind of sludge.

Mr. Crotch: Did you find anything else?

Witness: No.

Mr. Crotch: Nothing else at all?

Witness: No.