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

Judge: No, I think that’s fair.

Mr. Chesterton: Now, the next time we hear anything of the official records, Miss Landless, you were back again in London. How was that?—in your own proper person, and ceased to be Datchery.

Witness: I went up in the evening.

Mr. Chesterton: In the evening?

Witness: By the last ’bus and train.

Mr. Chesterton: What time?

Witness: The ’bus that leaves the Crozier.

Mr. Chesterton: What time?

Witness: I forget exactly, but I think about six.

Mr. Chesterton: Had you any reason for going up?