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LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE Department Deputy Rice. Dr. T.R.M. Howard, a prominent black citizen who is credited with finding some of the additional witnesses was also allegedly present when the bar was searched. 102 A partial transcript of the trial was made and a copy was in the possession of defense attorney J W. Kellum. Kellum apparently loaned the transcript to someone, could not recall who he had loaned it to and thus it became lost. At the time of Kellum’s death in 1996 his sonf | ps c [__]earchea Kellum’s files and was unable to locate the transcript. '° In if | recalled ...a transcript of that case was made for the purpose of having it in the event a kidnaping charge - was placed against those boys in Leflore County.” “ ] currently { [ understood thaf | had a transcript of the trial made| had borrowed a copy of the transcript fron{___fluring[ attendance at law school and bé subsequently returned it iq sf b7C [Ja native of Tallahatchie County, and c—— ee | obtained a copy of the trial transcript from defense attorney JJ. - bIC Breland, [sea the transcript as a reference material in wing [tt [fever returned the transcript and kept it for many years. Some years ago[ home suffered a flood and the transcript, along with other Till research material, was destroyed. 166 [ ____eealted that the family had ordered a copy of the court records and had to pay _ $75 to have them made.'*” Mise o/s 33 LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBi it is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be disiributed outside your agency.