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{| Pa — This document contains neither recommendations ner conclusions of the FBI. it is the property of the FBS and is loaned to your agency: it and its LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE detailed account of the black customer grabbing her hand, grabbing her waist and b6 how she had screamed fof ito come and help her. m IC. b. August 27, 1955 - Evening - Money, Mississippi: ° [ives near Money, Mississippi, and had just returned to b6 Mississippi from a summer vacation trip to Chicago, Illinois. [entered Bryant’s 7c Grocery & Meat Market, accompanied by his uncle and his mother. When he entered the store, Roy Bryant oo | were inside. Roy Bryant asked [here he[ | was on “that Thursday or Friday or something...” “I didn’t know what the devil he was talkin’ about, so he, he acted like he wanted to do something to me...” [___] mother intervened... “and she said what’s goin’on? And ah, he just started out off and he say you all got to teach this boy how to say I said yes sir, no sir.” At about the sametime[SSSSSS~S~C=édé Said something to Roy Bryant thaf{—_]could not hear. The text day{ | father went and told their landowner about the incident. The landowner went to find out if Roy Bryant had a problem with[ | and learned that Roy Bryant was in jail for kidnaping Preacher Wright’s grandson the night before. ” ° [ On the evening prior to Till’s kidnaping, a black boy | bé ; i. b7C entered Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market and Roy Bryant was aggressively quizzing the boy. initially| fia not recall exact details about the incident. However, in another interview [__Jreattea “ .Eknow that there was a lady and her little boy or her grandson or somebody was in the store and, I don’t Mise 0/3 47 LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.