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 there would not have been anything eccentric about coffee or tea?

Witness: I think it would be a very feminine beverage.

Mr. Chesterton: Very well. You told my learned friend that you did not really lose your way from the Crozier to Tope’s?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Chesterton: The truth of your story you are prepared to stake on that being so?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Chesterton: Will the Jury look at page 191 of the book?[2] There it states “he soon became bewildered, and went boggling about and about the Cathedral tower, whenever he could catch a glimpse of it....” (To the witness.) You could catch a glimpse of it when you liked?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Chesterton: There was no question of catching a glimpse of it. You could go straight to it if you wanted to?

Witness: If you are quoting from the book.