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‘ LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE body had not been tampered with except that it had been clothed. Bradley was able to positively identify the body, in the casket and on the slab, as that of Emmett Louis Till by looking very carefully at the ears, forehead, hairline, hair, nose, lips and chin. Bradley knew it was her boy "beyond a shadow of a doubt." | Bradley further testified Till frequently wore a ring that had been sent to her in her husband's effects following his death. Bradley identified a ring, which had been | taken off of the body recovered from the Tallahatchie River, as a ring worn by Till and the ring she had received in her husband's effects following his death, ‘Additionally, at trial Bradley identified Till from a photograph which had been taken by Mr. Strickland as a photograph of Till, '°® '°? D. State of Mississippi vs. Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam: Milam and Bryant were indicted by a Grand Jury in Tallahatchie County on September 5, 1955 on one count each of kidnaping and murder. ‘* The kidnaping charge was dropped by the prosecution and the trial for murder took place in Sumner, Mississippi from September 19, 1955 through September 23, 1955, on which date they were acquitted. Press accounts reveal that after the trial had begun, additional witnesses were identified and a break in the proceedings occurred on Tuesday September 20, 1955 in order for these leads to be pursued. [_pavised that a barn on the Clint Shurden Plantation was searched on September 25 20, 1955 by Sunflower County District Attomey Stanny Sanders and Sunflower County Sheriff's ~ Appendix Ae > Transcript - State of Mississippi vs. TW. Milara and Roy Bryant, Second District of Tallahatchie Misc 0/5 ” The Lynching of Emmett Till, a Documentary Narrative, Christopher Metress, 62 to 63 82 LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE This document contains neither zecommendations nor conclusions of the FBE. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency, it and its coments are not to be distributed outside your agency.