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: Very well. (To witness.) You met, you have told us, an opium woman?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Chesterton: And you had a conversation with her, and afterwards made a mark on your score—your Cingalese score?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Chesterton: A moderate mark; then you saw her, in the Cathedral, shake her fist at Jasper?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Chesterton: Then you made a big mark. What was the meaning of that?

Mr. Walters: I am not sure that she is bound to answer that question. It is sufficient that she made the mark.

Mr. Chesterton: I am endeavouring to show that this story is not true, as I shall represent to the Jury, and my motive for asking the question is, that I suggest it was not Miss Landless who made the mark. The witness who did make the mark will be summoned later, and asked why he made it.

Witness: You ask why I made the long mark?