<P> Maxwell Green is the new lawyer in town . He is normally the judicially - assigned defense attorney but Judge Taylor assigned Tom Robinson's case to Atticus to give Tom Robinson a better chance . </P> <P> Mr. X Billups who is seen only once in the book, going to the trial, is described as a "funny man". X is his name, and not his initial . He was asked repeated times what his name was until he signed it . X was the name he had been given when he was born because his parents marked his birth certificate with an X instead of a name . </P> <P> The Barber Sisters (Miss Sarah, nicknamed "Tutti" and Miss Frances, nicknamed "Frutti") are maiden sisters who live in the only house in Maycomb with a cellar . They were originally from Clanton, Alabama; and are rumored to be Republicans . Besides their Yankee ways, both sisters are deaf (Tutti completely deaf; Frutti uses an ear trumpet), and had a Halloween prank pulled on them by some "wicked" schoolchildren (Scout claims she was not included) who put all of their furniture in their cellar . </P> <P> Mrs. Farrow is a lady in the missionary society who visits the Finch house occasionally . </P>

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