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: He was so sad and unhappy that he left Cloisterham, and took lodgings in London.

Mr. Walters: You went with him?

Witness: No, I stopped there to live it down.

Mr. Walters: That is where your courage came in again?—But you need not reply. I shall leave it to the Jury to draw their own conclusions. And now, all this time you were watching Jasper? Did you discover anything about his actions?

Witness: Nothing definite.

Mr. Walters: Did you hear of his going here and there?

Witness: Yes; there were periodical disappearances.

Mr. Walters: Did you know where he went on those occasions?

Witness: Yes, he went to London.

Mr. Walters: And when in Cloisterham, how did he behave?