VICAR OF HUNSLET

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 30, 5 February 1913, Page 7

VICAR OF HUNSLET

HIS MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE VILLAGERS INCENSED . A THREE WEEKS'" SEARCH. By Telegraph.— Pre*s Association,— Copyright (Received February 5, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 4th February. The villagers at Hunslet are incensed over the report that Albert Knight, Vicar of Christ Church, Hunslet, has left the country- under an assumed name. It was first etated that Knight had fallen over Flatnborough Head, and for three weeks the villagers were indefatigable in their search for the body. Knight was very popular, and was a cricketer, footballer, and box«r. Lately ha treated hia wife violently, and behaved queerly. On the 18th January he compelled her to accompany him to Bridlington, whence they tramped six miles through mud and fog to a d.ingerous cliff. Knight then told her lie intended to disappear. He carefully prepared the scene, leaving his umbrella and camera on the cliff. He then departed, after instructing hfe wife to go to the nearest farmhouse and say she saw him fall" over. The wife wa« not aware of Knight's intentions. She was simply terrorised. She did rfot know of his relations with a School teacher. , (Received February 5, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, 4th February. It fs believed that Knight and th;e school teacher sailed in the steamer Ballarab under assumed names.