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: 44A-JN-30112, 62D-JN-30045-FD302 pers TRANSCRIPT-EMMETT TELL TRIAL Sept 1955.0 -Paee i107 a A Yes, : f Q When you got down there, tell the court and jury [ what you ali did, 7 A Well, the first thing we done, one boy went down ! there - - - the first thing we done - - the first boy - - let me see mow - - when the first boy went down - - Bo | Mims and Mr. Melton, I think that was the deputy's name, | and Fred Mims ~ - well, they came back to the house and got me and my Daddy, and we went down there at first. | OQ And then what happened? A Well, they brought the rope back there, and then me and this other boy was in a boat, and Mr. Melton was there, and they had the rope around the boy's legs and then they hung it on there, and they had it on this other boat, and then they carried it: down the river and took it out. on the other side there. Q How did you ‘hang it there? A Well, they pulled up the river a little ways and got in unhung, so that they could move it, and then they gor this rope around the legs, and then we carried it on up the river, and then we just come on across and pulled it Over.on the bank in the boat. Q When you pulled it back up the river, did the bady float? 104