"Miz Winterbottom's" is where the two Yankee "cyarpet-baggers" who try to organize the emancipated slaves to vote are boarding, and it is here that Colonel Sartoris seeks them out and kills them - before apologizing to Mrs. Winterbottom for "mussing up [her] guest-room" with the murder (243). (Faulkner narrates this shooting in two later novels - Light in August and The Unvanquished; in that last account he relocates it in the Holston House, the oldest hotel in Jefferson.)
Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Sun, 2018-01-21 13:26
There is no biographical information about the unnamed jailer who appears in this story. In the narrative he discovers that Flint has somehow escaped from his cell without leaving a trace.
Submitted by rlcoleman@usout... on Sun, 2018-01-21 13:22
The sheriff sends "Ben Berry and some others" to Joel Flint's house in case the escaped Joel Flint returns there (122). These "others" are not described in any way, though it seems as if they are not members of the sheriff's office, which is why we identify them as a kind of 'posse.'
