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Mrs. Knowlton
responds
To the Editor:
This letter is in reference to the May 23 paper saying I said Kenny beat me and kicked me while I cringed on the floor. That statement came from someone else, not me. We argued like most brothers and sisters, but it’s no one’s business but bur own. Had I been beaten like it was made to sound, I would think I would have been in the hospital.
Henry [Payne], was drunk as usual and running his mouth. He never stayed in a hospital, either. And the story with him wouldn't be fit for this paper as to things he said and did when drunk.
As for Wayne [Leonard], they don’t call him Greasy for nothing. Always trying to be slick. He likes to threaten women with a gun, check his background.1
If you want to cross the moat, throw the alligators another piece of meat, which is what has and is being done by a few people. My brother hasn’t killed anyone. And, yes, I live in a house with no running water, yet I’m told I’m a big dealer. Then we are supposed to have the Fauquier County Sheriffs Department and Rapphannock County on Allison’s payroll, also.
You have to look at the fact of about 70 men being put into raiding six houses and getting like a gram of cocaine. The worst is very easy to believe. I say sources of information should be checked out better. Fauquier County is not a drug haven. I would think D.C. should be at the top of the list, what with the murder rate there.
This does not reflect on Mr. Apperson, truly a very impressive man and I look to be a judge in the future. Looks good, too. Ha. Ha.
I trust this will be printed correctly. If you wish to know what one
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