The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

When Hightower walks home after learning that the Sheriff is closing in on Christmas, he is so shaken that when "someone speaks to him in passing," he "does not even know" that he has been addressed (310). There's no indication of the gender of this passerby, but it's unlikely that a black would speak first in passing a white man, so we identify 'him' as white.

These are the "other prisoners" in the jail at the same time that Lucas Burch (Joe Brown) is there (303). They are only referred to by Buck Conner when he orders Burch to stop talking.

In his hunt for Joe Christmas across the Yoknapatawpha countryside Sheriff Kennedy is joined by a large posse. There are "thirty or forty" men waiting for the bloodhounds who arrive on the train the day after Joanna's body is discovered (296), and the narrative suggests this same group remains on the trail through the following week.

This cashier brings the sheriff the envelope that Joanna Burden deposited at the bank, addressed by her "To to be opened at my death" (294).

When Sheriff Kennedy learns that someone lives in the cabin behind Joanna Burden's house, he decides the most efficient way to find the facts is to order his deputy Buford to "Get me a nigger" (291). The narrator says next: "The deputy and two or three others got him a nigger" (291). At first the man pleads ignorance but then, after being whipped by the deputy, says "It's two white man" who have been living there (293). He does not protest his treatment.