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. Walters: You think that, wherever he was, he would have spoken, if alive?

Witness: I do.

Mr. Walters: Thank you, that will do.

[Helena Landless Cross-examined.]

Mr. Chesterton: Miss Landless, you say you knew the prisoner to some extent before the disappearance of Edwin Drood?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Chesterton: When did you learn that the prisoner was addicted to opium smoking—or have you learned it?

Witness: Mr. Tope told me of a seizure he had in the Cathedral.

Mr. Chesterton: When was that, approximately?

Witness: As far as I can remember, about a few weeks after I came to Cloisterham as Dick Datchery. Rosa told me how frightened she was of him after he had had a dream; that he used to go into a peculiar kind of dream, and a film came over his eyes, and then she was more terrified of him than before.