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: I took it for spirits, and beer, and so on.

Mr. Chesterton: So you knew little about the drinking, but a great deal about the scoring?

Witness: That interested me as a child. My brother and I used to talk about it.

Mr. Chesterton: What was the purpose of the scores?

Witness: The tavern keepers would do it to know what was due from Tom Scott, or Jim Price.

Mr. Chesterton: You told us that you undertook the Datchery impersonation, so to speak, in collaboration with Mr. Grewgious?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Chesterton: May I take it you know him well?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Chesterton: Frequently correspond with him?