Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ TRIAL OF JOHN JASPER TRIAL OF JOHN JASPER Lay Precentor of Cloisterham Cathedral in the County of Kent, for the MURDER OF EDWIN DROOD Engineer. Heard by MR. JUSTICE GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON sitting with a Special Jury, in the King’s Hall, Covent Garden, W.C., on Wednesday, the 7th January, 1914. Verbatim Report of the proceedings from the Shorthand Notes of J. W. T. LEY. LONDON CHAPMAN & HALL, LTD. 1914 _Printed by The Westminster Press (Gerrards Ltd.), 411a Harrow Road, London, W._ KING’S HALL, COVENT GARDEN JANUARY 7th, 1914. [Illustration: The Trial of John Jasper for The Murder of Edwin Drood] Under the Auspices of The Dickens Fellowship (London Branch) Frank S. Johnson, _Hon. Sec._ JUDGE, WITNESSES, COUNSEL AND JURY JUDGE Mr. G. K. CHESTERTON COUNSEL FOR THE PROSECUTION Mr. J. CUMING WALTERS and Mr. B. W. MATZ COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENCE Mr. CECIL CHESTERTON and Mr. W. WALTER CROTCH JOHN JASPER Mr. FREDERICK T. HARRY (_Lay Precentor at Cloisterham Cathedral_) ANTHONY DURDLES Mr. BRANSBY WILLIAMS (_The Cloisterham Stonemason_) THE REVD. SEPTIMUS CRISPARKLE Mr. ARTHUR WAUGH (_Minor Canon at Cloisterham Cathedral_) MISS HELENA LANDLESS Mrs. LAURENCE CLAY (_Ward of Mr. Honeythunder_) “’ER ROYAL HIGNESS PRINCESS PUFFER” Miss J. K. PROTHERO (_The Opium Woman_) [THOMAS] BAZZARD Mr. C. SHERIDAN JONES (_Clerk to Mr. Grewgious_) THE CLERK OF ARRAIGNS Mr. WALTER DEXTER THE USHER Mr. A. E. BROOKES CROSS POLICE OFFICERS Mr. H. H. PEARCE and Mr. C. H. GREEN The JURY will be chosen from among the following: Mr. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (foreman) Sir FRANCIS C. BURNAND Sir EDWARD RUSSELL Dr. W. L. COURTNEY Mr. W. W. JACOBS Mr. PETT RIDGE Mr. HILAIRE BELLOC Mr. TOM GALLON Mr. MAX PEMBERTON Mr. G. S. STREET Mr. COULSON KERNAHAN Mr. EDWIN PUGH Mr. WILLIAM DE MORGAN Mr. ARTHUR MORRISON Mr. RAYMOND PATON Mr. FRANCESCO BERGER Mr. RIDGWELL CULLUM Mr. JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY Mr. OSCAR BROWNING Mr. WM. ARCHER Barristers, Reporters and Spectators. INDICTMENT of JOHN JASPER _Lay Precentor of Cloisterham Cathedral, in the County of Kent_, for the MURDER of EDWIN DROOD, _Engineer_. TRIAL Holden at the ASSIZES at WESTMINSTER, on the 7th January, 1914.