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a | LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE also stateq___ told her...““When they were washing the blood, they moved this canopy, we used to call it a tarpaulin...” “...they moved it out the way and he saw this shoe...” '?! he was waiting outside the “gambling place” Cp some other men when a girl named Japproached and told them that J.W. Milam had taken a boy, killed him and dumped his body in the river. [__Pritnessed] pointing out to the group a shoe lying on the ground that, according to “Too Tight” Collins, the boy [Till] had been wearing, '? | | In a separate interview] [stated he had been gambling at a juke joint in Glendora, Mississippi on the night of Till’s murder and had been called to help a gitlfriend with a flat tire. id so, purchasin in : ae [ a BIC _ Mississippi with Melvin Campbell’s assistance and then returning to Glendora, Mississippi. Once back in Glendora, Mississippi a man name —__ fhowed [ona several other people a burned shoe, which] paid was one of Emmett Till’s shoes, !?? | PT c During all known interviews off __e has denied any involvement in Till’s kidnaping and murder. ¢ Oudie Brown (deceased): Brown related that on the morning after Till was killed he was walking and “Too Tight” [Collins] was washing J.W. Milam’s truck out. “... looked down and I said what all that blood coming from. He laughed. The boy laughed. That’s what he did. He said there’s a shoe there. There’s ond of his shoes — "Mise O/S LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. 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.