MISPLACED AFFECTIONS
DESERTED WIFE AND FLOCK
(Received Feb. 5, 5.5 p.m.)
LONDON, Feb. 5. ■The Rev. Mr Knight, who was highly strung and .emotional, was a preacher of the revivalist type. He raised his congregation from a score to ■600,., ■:. .
The details of his flight were carefully planned from the time lie dramatically disappeared at the cliff-edge in a1 blaze of flashlight, with which he pretended to take a photograph, untune "joined Fanny Grimes aboard •fcheßallarat.
Knight's hair was cut unusually short the day before he disappeared. ; His marked attention to Miss Grimes caused the dividing of his congregation into two groups—one defending the Vicar and the other full oJf misgivings. Gossip was silenced upon Miss Grimes quitting Leeds in September for the South of England, but the intimacy was renewed again in the autumn, during Knight's six weeks' vacation.
Despite the wife's objections there was an impressive memorial service after Knight's supposed death, at which the Bishop eulogised the "de~ eeaseid."
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 32, 6 February 1913, Page 5
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