- Deputies charge 42 purple people LAKE CORMORANT, MISS. (AP) — When DeSota County deputies responded + to the disturbance call, they had no idea what they'd find. But purple people wearing fishhead necklaces was not a Forty-two purple people, to be.exact. Some of them nude, to be specific. And most of them rather smelly, to be perfectly frank. “They had some kind of purplo stuff all over them," possibility they'd considered. said Sheriff Denver Sowell. Ann Landers’ Dear Ann: .| have seen several fetters In your column » about battered women. Almost always the blame falls on her, nat him. The most recent example was a letter from a pollee officer who said police can't help because the women don’t want help. Seven months of Interviewing has convinced me that this is not true. The women | talk to say It la useless to call the police. The response Is usually ‘“‘mind your husband.”’ Then they offer to escort her, the victim, out of the * house. 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