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...neck. Mose Wright said the body was that of his nephew. To the surprise of many Northerners, the Tallahatchie County grand jury promptly indicted two white men for murder: Roy Bryant, 24, storekeeper and ex-paratrooper, husband of the insulted woman; and his half brother, J. W. Milam...
Asked to identify the men who took Emmett Till from his cabin, Mose Wright stood up and pointed a gnarled finger straight at Milam, then at Roy Bryant. The sheriff of neighboring Leflore County related that Bryant and Milam admitted taking Emmett Till, but claimed that they later let him go when they learned he was the wrong boy. The boy's mother testified that the body from the river was her son; on his finger was his dead father's ring, with the initials L.T. (Louis Till). She had cautioned him about Tallahatchie County. She told...
...frightened he could hardly talk. He told his story: early on the morning after the kidnaping of Emmett Till, he had seen a boy who looked like Till's photographs in a truck with four white men. Soon afterward, he saw the truck outside a barn belonging to Milam's brother, and heard sounds inside "like someone being whipped." What sounds? "He say, 'oh,' " said Willie Reed, in a very low voice...
...till last week did the new company get around to incorporating formally. At a meeting in the Slick Oil Co. offices in San Antonio's 21-story ,Milam Building, Earl Slick was elected president, Charlie Urschel Jr., treasurer. Tom will probably be vice president. Total capitalization: $1,000,000, almost all put up by the Slick and Urschel families...
...Smaltz, "but Duetsch ya think that Camp Edwards ought to Turner coach in for a Newman?" Salapakos a lunch and we can make a Turek over to the stadium and watch the Crimson Strout its stuff. The crowd will be good Casella said Mitchell be there. To be Franche, Milam, we Coshnear got caught last time we sneaked into the stadium but I'd do it again any O'Day to see the soldiers Lloyd to the slaughter...