FLAMBOROUGH HEAD MYSTERY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 220, 5 February 1913, Page 5

FLAMBOROUGH HEAD MYSTERY.

A SUGGESTED EXPLANATION*. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London. February 3. The Chief Constable at Leeds states that the Rev. Mr. Knight, who. it was cabled recently, through himself off Flamborough Head, is not dead, but that he left the country under an assumed name. ;;nd is believed to have gone to Australia.

The Vicar of llun-iet la parish of Leeds, in Yorkshire) was walking with his wife along the cliffs nn the coast at Flainboroiigh Head when, withor.t uttering a won 1 ., he disappeared over the edge. lb' had gone out to tak> photographs. liis wife immediareiv procured assistance, and close to the brink of the c'ifT were discovered 'lie vanished man's umbrella and a tin of flashlight powder. Hut neither on t.iie cliff nor in the sea were discovered the traces of either ihe vic.tr. or hi- camera, hat. or clothing. Three men as-evt that they saw somebody, whom they took to be "the vicar, at a railway -tation in the "vicinity, which could ea-ily have been reached from the clilT in the time that elapsed from the moment that lie disappeared and when he was supposed to have been seen there. A reward has been offered for the recovery of the body.