INDICTMENT of JOHN JASPER
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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.
ASSIZE COURT } To wit:
KING’S HALL, COVENT GARDEN
County of LONDON
The Jurors for this trial upon their oath[1] present, that JOHN JASPER on the 24th day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty in the Parish of Cloisterham and within the jurisdiction of the said Court, feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought did kill and murder one EDWIN DROOD against the peace of every true Dickensian.