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Title: Trial of John Jasper for the murder of Edwin Drood; in aid of Samaritan, Children's Homeopathic, St. Agnes and Mt. Sinai hospitals, April 29, 1914, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, U.S.A
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Dickens Fellowship (Philadelphia, Pa.) Patterson, John M. (John Morrison), b. 1874
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: (Philadelphia) Philadelphia Branch, Dickens Fellowship
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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mony with that possibility in mind.We present to you, therefore, in John Jasper, a manpresumably innocent, a man of intelligence, a manof morbid sensibility, a man upon whom his myriadmisfortunes so preyed that he felt himself obligedto resort to the use of an opiate to keep himselffrom being driven utterly mad. A man boweddown and broken by a grief we can hardly measure,as a result of his loss of one for whom his love hasever remained constant and does so remain to thisday. I shall ask you to keep in mind that we are nothere to prove the angelic purity of the accused. Weare not here to prove that he had not, as which ofus has not, unworthy aims and unfortunate im-pulses. We are not here to contrast unfavorably hischaracter and life with that, let us say, of CanonCrisparkle; but we are here to say to you and toprove by our evidence that this man is not, andcould not be, guilty of the crime of murder, upon allthe evidence which has been, and will be, submittedfor your consideration. 94
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Miss Sarah Evans as Mrs. Tope DEFENSE—MRS. TOPES TESTIMONY We shall show you by other witnesses the reputa-tion of this defendant as well as the reputation ofthat child-like individual whom his fond tutor,Canon Crisparkle, has done so much to protect. Weshall show you that the so-called suspicious circum-stances brought forward by the prosecution in theirmonstrous persecution of this defendant are ex-plainable as most ordinary and common place. Weshall show you these things in order that yourverdict of Not Guilty may stand as a rebuke tothose who would seek to take advantage of the unfor-tunate and persecute the innocent. The Court: Call a witness and proceed expedi-tiously. Defendants Evidence. (Mrs. Tope takes the witness stand.) By Mr. Scott: Q. You are the wife of the verger at Cloister-ham? A. I am. Q. You and your husband keep the gatehousethere, dont you ? A. Yes; we both kept the gatehouse. Q. Jasper lives with you? A. He is my lodger. Q. Of course you know Mr. Jasper? A. Oh

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