Slim

Slim is a homeless man who lives in a shed behind the Pool Hall. Mike Dawson first meets him hiding in the bushes in the park where Rita was murdered. Slim figures out that he is talking to Mike Dawson, the man whom everyone thinks murdered Rita. Mike denies murdering Rita, and Slim believes him because a voice in his head told him that Mike was innocent. Slim wears a boy scout uniform which he calls the Uniform of Protection. According to Slim, the uniform designates him the protector of the town and makes every part of his body that it covers invulnerable.