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: I was afraid of nothing to be free.

Mr. Walters: What did you do in order to make a flight successful?

Witness: I cut off my hair, and dressed myself as a boy.

Mr. Walters: That needed a great amount of daring?

Witness: Well, the occasion needed all the daring I could command.

Mr. Walters: And when it needs all the daring you can command, you don’t mind daring?

Witness: No.

Mr. Walters: As a matter of fact, you did it, I think, not only for yourself, but for your brother?

Witness: I think more for him than for myself.

Mr. Walters: And you love your brother very much?