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Ellis aged 35, was six feet tall, 190 pounds, black hair, hazel eyes, pale skin, attractive face, looked like a cowboymanners, deep voice, quiet, said little, wore neat suits, lace up leather shoes, a white shirt with a tie, and a hat Near his aparte houses had been rehborhood boys played baseball there in the late spring and through the suaer school years

Ellis had an Uncle Bruce that owned a dairy faro there several ti This farm had 100 yellow belly Guernsey cows on about 130 acres Ellis drove his Buick over state roads, secondary roads, a rural road, then a dirt road and reached the farm Slowly he rolled the Buick onto the farm house’s front yard and stopped to park there This left the driveway to the left open The house was one story being ashed and trimmed in black To one side was corn field To the other was a vegetable garden with a lot of strawberries Around the rear of it was a one car garage, a pump house, a smoke house, an out house, a tin roofed wood shed, trellised uplots Across the dirt road was a barnyard with an unpainted granary that had a corn field behind it, a white washed barn with a shed addition for cows to one side, a pasture behind