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LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE Wright could not identify what type of automobile was used by Milam and Bryant. The vehicle was operated without headlights. After the vehicle departed, Wright "...stood on the porch there for maybe twenty minutes or more." When asked if anyone else, with the exception of Milam and Bryant, was there at the time of Till’s kidnaping, Wright responded “There was one man who stood there at the screen door." "...he was standing kind of with his head down like this here peering. He was trying to hide, it looked like.” "He acted like a colored man.” | Wright stated he did not see Till, or anyone else, getting into a car and didn't see anyone in the car when it drove off. Wright did not observe headlights, tail lights or interior lights on the car. Wright was asked about the Voice he heard out by the car being the voice of one of the three men. Wright responded, “It was just a voice. They took him out there, and somebody said, ‘Is this him?’ and then a voice said, ‘Yes.’ But it wasn't one of them.” Wright could not tell if the vehicle used to take Till from his home was a truck or a car because of the darkness. | Wnhght described Till as having "...stammering speech. Sometimes he couldn't " get a word out." Additionally, Till weighed about one hundred fifty pounds and "He looked like a man.” Wright testified that when Milam and Bryant came into his home there were no lights on in the home and no lights were tumed on. The only lighting was the flashlight carried by Milam, Wright believed Till was sleeping in his shorts and maybe a shirt. When told to get up and put his clothes on, Till put on a shirt, trousers and shoes.. Wright described in detail where each individual in the home was 53 LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE This document contains neither recommendazions nor conclusions of the FB. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency: it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.