Sunday Evening in Littlefield 1943

The Roy Hunts were visiting in Lubbock. Jim Thomas usually had an accomplice and they were in Littlefield. An interesting part of the telling of Clovis Road was whether Thomas would have killed the Hunts that night had they been home. He probably would have tried. It turned into a recon mission, and he returned the next night. He may have been there other evenings also. Who was that accomplice and was he there the next night?
Another question that came up in writing the story was the usually barking dogs next door to the west. They didn’t bark. Thomas did not know the dogs so it was not like the Sherlock Holmes story. The Sunday visit allowed them to know he had to drug the dogs the next night, which according to Slo Grisom there is no doubt he did.