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. Tue ait nk wy LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE body was brought to the shore. The body was lying on the river bank with a gin fan pulley tied around its neck with barbed wire. [__fecatted untangling the wire b6 Pac from the body; injuries to the head of the bof sz [Jana carrying the body to the funeral home in Greenwood, Mississippi. [ ] could not recall the body having a ring on any of its 47 fingers. | « Mose Wright (deceased): Testified that following Till’s kidnaping on August 28, 1955, the next time Wright observed Tilt was the following Wednesday when "...he was taken out of the river. He was in a boat then "...and..."He was dead. A Deputy Sheriff from Greenwood, Mississippi notified Wright to come to the river. Present at the river was Sheriff Strider, Deputy Garland Melton and a lot of other white people. Wright observed the undertaker, Chester Miller, take a ring off of Till’s finger and place it on the seat of the funeral coach. Miller then gave the ring to Wright and Wright later gave the ring to a Leflore County Sheriff's Deputy. When asked about the ring taken from Till's finger, Wright stated he had never seen the ring before, but had been told by Simeon and Robert [Wright’s sons] the ring was Till's. 148, 149 b6 : bic re ae “What happened was, the sheriff brought the ring out to our house and showed it to dad, which I was standin’ there with him, said this is the ring that we.found on the body. And that’s when I uh, blurted out, said Mise 0/5 '* Appendix A - Transcript — State of Mississippi vs. J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, Second District of Tatlahatchie C enth Judicial District, September 1955 - Testimony of Mose Wright, 4 to 64 49 - “[ Saw Them Take Emmett Till — The tape-recorded story by Emmett Till’ Uncle Moses Wright,” Front Page Detective, October 25, 2 .. Mise o/s LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE ; This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is che property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not te be distributed outside your agency.