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. Chesterton: But you are putting two very different dates. I want to know when you realised he was addicted to opium smoking.

Witness: It takes a little time to realise anything. We hear this and that, and we put two and two together.

Mr. Chesterton: When Rosa gave you that information, did you suspect opium smoking?

Witness: I had a faint suspicion.

Mr. Chesterton: It occurred to you that it was probably opium. You knew Edwin Drood, Miss Landless?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Chesterton: Was he a conspicuous person—a person to notice very much?

Witness: Not very much, with the exception of this: that he was rather patronising, and had the air of a lad who was very much at home with himself.

Mr. Chesterton: He dressed like ordinary young men?

Witness: Yes.