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Emmett Till — Part 1
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that’s Emmett’s, that’s Bobo’s ring.”| rad seen Till wearing the ring during
Till’s visit to Mississippi. '*°
| re at home when Mose Wright told him that they had
b6 found a body and Mose Wright wanted to go and identify it. [___}ariee Mose
_ Wright to where the body was, watched as Mose Wright pulled a ring from Till’s
finger and then heard Mose wee State the body was Tull. Additionally, Mose
. Note: During the course of the investigation the ring was not
discovered and there is no reason to expect that it will be found.
d. August 31, 1955, 3:00 p.m. Greenwood, Mississippi:
e C.A. Strickland (believed deceased): Strickland was an Identification Officer,
Collision Department, Greenwood Police Department. At approximately 3:00 p.m.
on August 31, 1955 Strickland was called upon to take photographs of adead body at
the Century Burial Funeral Home in Greenwood, Mississippi. At trial, Strickland
‘identified a photograph he had taken of the body. The photographs were not located
during the course of the investigation. 132
# C.F, (Chick) Nelson (deceased): Testified that Nelson was the manager and
operator of a funeral home in Tutwiler, Mississippi. Nelson was requested to pick up
the body of Emmett Till during the last part of August and Nelson sent someone to
pick up the body at Century Funeral Home. The body was then brought to Neison's
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Appendtx A - Transcript ~ State of Mississippi vs. J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, Second District of Tallahatchie
County, Seventeenth Judicial District, September £955 - Testimony of C.A. Strickland, 80 to 85
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