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b6é b7¢ b6 b7c LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE ; funeral home where the body was prepared for shipping to Chicago and subsequently shipped to A. A. Rainer and Sons Funeral Home in Chicago.'*? [ After Roy Bryant’s anest[ | was taken in by family members. “J was at Buddy Mitam’s store...” “...and Raymond [Roy Bryant’s twin brother] came in. I don’t know if Raymond was by himself of not. I think that was the day the body was found, and I think that he told me that and, and uh, I don’t know what I said to him; that Roy, Roy said he didn’t do anything to him or something and anyway, Raymond said Roy didn’t. It was Melvin. Well ch went, I said well why would, why would they arrest Roy then? And he said I was not to tell anybody it was Melvin and I said well I will...” '™ Movement and Identification of the Body: es who did not testify at trial, worked at I [sin Greenwood, Mississippi, transported Till’s body from the recovery site on the Tallahatchie River to the funeral home. Once nee! _] recalled placing the body in a coffin and then taking the body to Money, Mississippi for burial. While there; a Deputy Sheriff “and that boy’s uncle” advised them the body needed to be taken to Tutwiler, Mississippi, as the body was going to go to | Chicago for burial. The following moming [na Chester Miller went to the funeral home in Tutwiler and were told they had soaked the body in fluid to preserve it. The body was placed in rubber pouches, placed in a casket and they took the body to Clarksdale to the train. [hia not recall a doctor looking at the body. So '? Appendix A - Transcript, - State of Mississippi vs. J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, Second District of Tallahatchie Coun Seventeenth Judicial District, September 1955 - Testimony of C.F. (Chick) Nelson, 177 to 180 Misc O/S LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE This document contains neither reconmmendations nor conclusions of the FBI. [t is the property of the FBI and is toaned to your agency, it and its contents are not to be distributed outside yaur agency.