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LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE [fs native of Tallahatchie County, provided the Federal Bureau of Investigation with a copy of the trial transcript. [_tece McGarrh, Sr, had testified at the trial of Milam and Bryant as a character witness'for the defense. Upon McGarrh, Sr.’s death, [ obtained the copy of the transcript fomn[ 188 A review of the purported transcript provided bf reveals that the final page is a certification of the document which is signed by Court Reporter James T. O’ Day in Tate County, Mississippi on October 28, 1955, ! News accounts of the trial depicted photographs of the ring which was entered into evidence, one of which is shown below. A review of this photograph reveals the tag attached to the ring has the words “Exhibit 1 to Testimony of Mr. Cothran 9/2 1/55” and appears to bear a signature of “J T O’Day.” 168 Mise O/S ‘69 Appendix A - Transcript - State of Mississippi vs. J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, Second District of Tallahatchie- County, Seventeenth Judicial District, September 1955, 351 |. 8¢ 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 distributed outside your agency. .