NOT DEAD, BUT GONE AWAY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 30, 4 February 1913, Page 5

NOT DEAD, BUT GONE AWAY.

A VANISHED VICAR. (Keceived 8.53 a.m.) LONDON, February 3. The chief constable oi Leeds states that the Eev. Knight, vicar of Hunslet. is not dead, but has left the country under an cssumed name. It is believed that he has gone to Australia. On January 25 Mr. Knight, the vicar of Hunslet, a parish of Leeds, in Yorkshire, was walking with his wife along the rlrffs on the coast at Flamborough Head when, without uttering a word, he disappeared over the edge. He had gone ont to take photographs. His wife immediately procured assistance, and close to the brink of the cliff were discovered the vanished man's umbrella and a tin ot flashlight powder. But neither on the cliff aor in the sea were there any traces of either the vicar, or his camera, hat, or clothing. Three men asserted that they saw somebody whom they took to be the vicar at a. railway station in the vicinity, which could easily have been reached from the cliff in the time that elapsed from the moment that he disappeared and when he was supposed to have been seen by the men.