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—_— o£ . , : 2: en le 7 Ot fg Mo mT i HH Hm WE Wr b6 bie LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE 5. Monday - August 29, 1955: | a. Greenwood, Mississippi: ¢ John Ed Cothran: Cothran was a Deputy Sheriff for the Leflore County Sheriff's Department. Cothran testified that he spoke with J.W. Milam in the Leflore County jail, after Milam was arrested, on a Monday. “I asked him if they went out there and got that little boy and if they had done something with him, And he said that they had brought him up there to that store and turned him loose, there at Roy Bryant's store." Milam told Cothran they had got the boy at "Mose Wright's." Milam fiirther told Cothran ”...they brought him up there and talked to him, and then they let him Bo. n136 [Fiat “Well about all I remember i is that ah, J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant went to that old nigger house of Mose Wright, that little boy Emmett’s granddaddy. Well I talked to him on several different occasions when I was working that time. They never did mention nobody but Milam and Bryant.. ee Bryant and Milam were arrested, stating “...the Sunday evening me and him arrested Roy...” “...at the store in Money, and that was a Sunday evening, The Monday morning, me and the sheriff was sitting in the sheriff's office and I tooked out at the window and I said lookey yonder George. He said oh dog gone let’s go get him....” « .That’s Milam...” “. - he come down around there to see about his half brother. Well he got to see about him cause he went right up there with him.”’ ‘36 Appendix A - Transcript - State of Mississippi vs. J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, Second District of Tallahatchie ae Seventeenth Judicial Piste — 5 Testimony of Mr, John Ed Cothran, 143,144 Pe LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBS. It is the property of the FB! and is loaned lo your agency, it and ils contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.