An arrest warrant for a woman accusing Emmett Till was found in the basement nearly 70 years later.

Team Mississippi Looking for evidence of the lynching of black teenager Emmett Till in the basement of a state court, he charged a white woman in the 1955 kidnapping case unpaid decree was found. Till's relatives, who began her search, hope that authorities will only arrest her after nearly 70 years.

Carolyn Bryant Donam's arrest warrant (identified as "Mrs. Roy Bryant" in the document) was in a boxed file folder last week, Elms Stockstill, Leflore County Patrol. Found in. I told the Associated Press on Wednesday.

He said the documents are kept in boxes every 10 years, dated August 29, 1955. There was no other indication of where the warrant was. There may have been.

"They narrowed it down in the 1950s and 1960s and were fortunate," said Stockstill, who certified the warrant as genuine.

The search was initiated by the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation and contained two members of Till's family. And her daughter, Teri Watts. They want authorities to use a warrant to arrest Donam. At the time of her murder, Donam married one of two white men who were acquitted just weeks after Till was kidnapped from her relatives' house and killed and abandoned in the river.

"Provide her and charge her," Teriwats told AP in an interview.

Donam filed a proceeding in August 1955 for accusing 14-year-old Till of making improper steps at the Mississippi Money family store. Till's cousin there said Till whistled a woman who flew in the face of the racist social norms of that era.

Evidence shows that a woman, perhaps Donam, identified Till in the man who later killed him. At the time, her arrest warrant for Donam had been released, but Sheriff Rufloa told reporters that she did not want to "abuse" the woman because she had two young children.

Donam, now in her 80s and recently living in North Carolina, has not publicly commented on her call for prosecution. However, Teri Watts said the Tills believe that a warrant accusing them of kidnapping Donam is new evidence.

"This is what Mississippi needs to move forward," she said.

District Attorney Dewain Richardson indicted the case, but refused to comment on the warrant, but on the Till case in December. The Justice Department, citing the report , stated that prosecution was not possible.

Reflor County Sheriff Ricky Banks, contacted by AP on Wednesday, said: .. He knew about warrants.

The bank, which was seven years old when Till was killed, said when a former district attorney investigated the case five or six years ago, "nothing was said about the warrant." rice field.

"Get a copy of the warrant, get a DA, and see if you can get an opinion on it," Banks said. The bank said he would have to talk to law enforcement officers in the state where Donam lives if the warrant could still be provided.

Arrest warrants can become "obsolete" over time and changes in circumstances, and even if sheriffs agree to serve them, the 1955 arrest warrant will almost certainly be in court. Ronald J said he would not pass the convocation. Ricrak, a professor of law at the University of Mississippi.

However, when combined with new evidence, he said, the original arrest warrant could be "absolutely" an important stepping stone to establish a probable cause for initiating a new prosecution. Stated.

"If you go before the judge, you can say,'Once the judge decided that there was a possible cause, more information is available today.'" Rychlak said.

Till from Chicago visited his relatives in Mississippi on August 24, 1955, when he entered the store where Donam, then 21 years old, was working. Till's relatives, Wheeler Parker and Till, who were there at the time, told AP that they whistled the woman. Donham testified in court that Till also grabbed her and made lascivious comments.

Two nights later, Donam's then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W.Miram armed themselves in the countryside of Le Flore County, the hometown of Till's granduncle Morse Wright. Appeared and was looking for a young man. Till's brutal body, weighted by fans, was pulled from the river in another county a few days later. His mother's decision to open the casket so that Chicago mourners could see what happened helped revitalize the civil rights movement of the building at the time.

Brian and Miram were acquitted of the murder, but later admitted to the murder in a magazine interview. Both men were nominated in the same warrant accusing them of kidnapping Donam, but authorities were acquitted and did not pursue the case.

Wright testifies during a murder trial that a person with a voice "lighter" than the man's identity took him from the pickup truck to Till, and the kidnapper took him out of his family's house. did. Other evidence in the FBI file shows earlier that same night that Donam told her husband that at least the other two black men were not the right people.