During the book Witness someone shot a little girls father and killed him. Harvey is guilty of it, on page 29 he joins the Klan.The Klan is a huge group of racists that do whatever they want. After he joined the Klan he was going to trash another mans business; it was so bad that no one came to Harvey's store to buy anything also on page 92 the Doc was refusing to do anything for Harvey, but Harvey then said Klan will see to him if he does. He was basically threatened the Doc.  Page 102 Harvey smashed a bottle and said that it felt good breaking it in his Klu Klux Klan clothes and doesn't care if it hurt anyone. Another reason why Harvey is guilty is because Johnny and Merlin didn't do it. Johnny isn't guilty because he left the Klan on page 113 and wanted o redeem him self with God because he was ashamed of what he'd done when he was with the Klan. Merlin also didn't do it; on page 115 Merlin was handed a bottle of poison and was told to dump it in the Sutter's well water. Merlin couldn't do it, he refused to take the  poison and kill someone. Harvey Pettibone is the man that shot that little girls father he doesn't feel the pain when he ruins something.