Letter to the Editor by Donald Weyer, of Batavia:
Who said Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" was the pinnacle of true-crime reporting? They hadn't read Howard Owens's factual article about his protagonist, his character, Abrams; his setting, the Tonawanda Indian Reservation; his action: the comings, goings, and doings or lack of doings, of the crime of said Abrams; and his dialogue of Abrams, and of the judge, the prosecuting attorney, and the defense attorney, in Abrams's criminal sentencing hearing (on 12/7/23?)!
(The only thing missing from the literary account was the probable incredible amount of cash money floating around the reservation from its sales of cigarettes, gasoline, etc., and the reservation's exemption from certain laws, regulations, taxation, etc., applied to the majority of U.S. citizens. But then, maybe those are topics for future "The Batavian" examination).
