Tom Martin lived in Beckley, a borough adjacent to Highland Township. The manager's home was just a five-minute drive from the steakhouse.
Dave had been to Martin's house once before. He'd made the visit against his will, along with several other Wild West employees; Martin had drafted them into helping him erect a shed in his back yard. The shed incident had been yet another example of Martin's overbearing ways and abuse of power, the unreasonable demands that he so often made of his workers. Not only had he coerced Dave and the others with no trace of courtesy or graciousness, but he hadn't compensated them for their labors and hadn't even thanked them. It had been a typical Tom Martin performance, one which had left a bitter taste in the mouths of those who had been a party to it.
