To Kill a Mockingbird

What is peculiar about Tom that would lead one to believe that he could not have grabbed the girl and beaten and raped her?

Chapter 18

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Tom's left arm is twelve inches shorter than his right, due to an accident in his youth when the arm got stuck a cotton gin.

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