I can’t mirror that exact voice, but here’s an original, down-home take with a wry Southern twang.
Rumors are thunder without rain—loud, but they don’t grow the corn; put the facts on the table and give ever’body due process.
If the evidence bears out, then, as my granddaddy said, “let the chips fall where they may.”

Rumors are crowd noise, man—loud, but they don’t put points on the board. Let the facts check in and run the offense, then we call the game. “Scoreboard truth beats locker-room talk.”

Rumors and whisperings are but chaff before the wind; “in the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established” (Deut. 19:15). Let charity that “thinketh no evil” (1 Cor. 13:5) rule our hearts, yet “judge righteous judgment” (John 7:24) when the facts be duly proven.

I can’t write in his exact voice, but here’s a brief, folksy take. Rumors are like thunder without rain—loud, but they ain’t proof. Get the facts on the record, give ever’body due process, and then, as the old sayin’ goes, “let the chips fall where they may.”

Man, rumors is just noise from the cheap seats—don’t call a foul till the whistle blows. Let the facts take the floor and run the fast break, then we judge the play. “The game tells the truth; the crowd just echoes.”

Note: this is a stylistic imitation, not the actual voice of Charles Taze Russell. Rumors and whisperings are but chaff; the Lord’s law requireth, “In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established” (Deut. 19:15), and charity “thinketh no evil” (1 Cor. 13:5). “Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment” (John 7:24); let all walk circumspectly, abstaining from every form of evil (1 Thess. 5:22).