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~ ®@ @ 053020 (Rev 10-6-951 44A-0N-30112, 62D-JN-30045-FD302 baliddaiios of D302 0¢ TRANSCRIPT-EMMETT TILL TRIAL Sept 1955 on Page 93 © i understand - - but what statement was made, that was true? A Yes, Sir. ©) And you didn't tell him that you actually came up | there for the purpose of arresting him or anything like that, did you? : A Well, I didn't right at that moment. QO I mean before any statement was made:'to you? A No; Sir. QO In other words, when he was talking to you, he ; thought that he was talking to a confidential friend and | in a confidential manner, didn't he? A Well, I couldn't answer that question. MR. BRELAND: We submit, Your Honor, that the witness should not be permitted to testify on the grounds that any statement made to the witness was made as a matter of con- fidence, and any statement that was made, whatever it was, would not be competent in this case. And we object further, Your Honor, because the corpus delicti has not been established. There has been no testimony here that this bedy that was taken from the river was the body of Emmett Till. And any admission, if the corpus delicti has not been established, then such admission or admissions that might have been made, as far 90