Trial of John Jasper for the Murder of Edwin Drood: In Aid of...
[Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)]. Patterson, John M. 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. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Branch Dickens Fellowship, [1914]. 151 pp. Illustrations. Publisher's blue textured cloth, printed title label to spine. Top edge gilt. Light shelfwear, faint dampstain to bottom of front board. Some pages uncut. Internally clean. A very good copy. $75. * Printed in an edition of 500 numbered copies signed by the publisher, this copy is unnumbered and unsigned. A charming piece of Dickensiana, this is the report of a mock trial of John Jasper that was held by the Philadelphia chapter of the Dickens Fellowship in order to benefit a number of local hospitals. A similar mock trial was held by the London chapter the same year, with G.K. Chesterton serving as the judge. Unlike their British counterparts, who found Jasper guilty of manslaughter, the Philadelphia jury dismissed the charges.
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