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: Yes, it was difficult, but I determined to overcome every difficulty.

Mr. Walters: You did not shrink?

Witness: Naturally I shrank, but the end was worth all the sacrifice.

Mr. Walters: You determined to go through with it?

Witness: I did.

Mr. Walters: Because you had this double motive?

Witness: That is so.

Mr. Walters: The overpowering motive which overcame everything else?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Walters: Very well, now; if you could have avoided dressing yourself as a man, if some other course had been open to you, would you have taken it?