i just read this book lol. i had this question and used scout telling dill about the night they were attacked. "Jem and I were on our way home from the Thanksgiving pageant. We took the short way home because it was dark outside. On our way through the field, we heard these footsteps behind us. I didn't hear the footsteps but Jem did. Then I thought it was just Cecil Jacobs trying to scare me again tonight. I called out his name but no one answered. Jem told me to stop walking, the steps stopped, we continued. Again, I was told to stop, again the following stopped. We went on again, we stopped again, but this time the footsteps did not, so we had to really run for it. Whoever it was, was really fast. I tripped, got beat up a little, and ruined my ham costume and he got Jem, but at least we didn't die. Jem was beaten up pretty badly, way worse than I had been. He had a couple broken bones. We got home and Atticus then had to call Mr Heck Tate and he came over to get some information, then went to look at the field and found Bob Ewell dead under a tree. He had been stabbed with a knife. Boo Radley must've been the one who killed him. Who else could it have been, Dill? I just don't know why Bob Ewell would have wanted to hurt us. It was Atticus who accused him of beating up Mayella Ewell instead of Tom Robinson, not Jem and I." (253 words I think)
