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LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE here. I said Who? That’s the way I said it, I say Who? emmett Till’s shoe. Now that’s the way he said it.” Brown also recalled being with J.W. Milam on the day Milam was arrested by the “high sheriff” in Minter City, Mississippi. '™* h. August 28,1955 - 2:00 p.m. ~ Money, Mississippi: | ® George Smith (deceased): Smith was Sheriff of Leflore County. On Sunday, August 28, 1955, at approximately 2:00 p.m., Smith arrived at Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market in the town of Money, Mississippi. Upon his arrival, he found that the Bryant’s store was closed and Bryant was asleep in the back of the store. Smith spoke with Roy Bryant, while seated inside Smith's car, outside Bryant's store in | Money, Mississippi. “Lasked him why did he go down there and get that little nigger boy, and he said that he went down and got him to let his wife see him to identify him, and then he said that she said it wasn't the right one, and then he said that he turned him loose" "in front of his store". Bryant told Smith, they got Emmett Till at "Mose Wright's". Bryant also told Smith "He said he went to some of his people - - I don't remember just who he said now - - and he said he played cards there the rest of the night." Smith arrested Bryant and took him to the jail in Greenwood, Mississippi, where Bryant stayed “from that time on until he was brought to Tallahatchie County..." Misc O/S5 Appendix A - Transcript - State of Mississippi vs. J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, Second District of Tallahatchie County, Seventeenth Judicial District, September 1955 - Testimony of Mr. George Smith, 85 10 99 and 117 to 128 oT LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is foaned to yout agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.