[quote=paramount] . . . And a pillow was over his head…??[/quote]That’s not what the innkeeper said in an impromptu interview on the day the Justice’s body was found. He said he was lying down on the bed on top of the covers. He had apparently collapsed shortly after entering his room the night before … and never woke up.
The innkeeper (ranch owner) is the only one who knows how the body looked and seemed very credible to me. He seemed very professional and had nothing to hide. He didn’t immediately let himself in the Justice’s room until after he missed both breakfast lunch the next day. Even then, he stated that he knocked several times and got no answer before he finally used his master key to enter the room.
It’s extremely likely that the ranch owner didn’t touch the body except to try to rouse him or see if he was dead. So it would have been in the same position he found it in when the authorities got there.
