Newspaper chain heir killed

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34021, 9 December 1975, Page 21

Newspaper chain heir killed

cy Z P A -Reuter—Copyright) PHILADELPHIA. December 8. The 30-year-old bachelor heir to a United States newspaper) fortune was stabbed to death when three burg-; lars broke into his lux-i ury flat in Philadelphia; yesterday. Police said that the body! of John Knight II whose) grandfather founded the)

Knight newspaper chain, was found fully clothed and bound in his ’bedroom. He had been stabbed five times. British-born Mrs Rosemary McKinnon, wife of Mr (Knight’s former university ) room-mate, Dr John McKinnon, was stabbed in the I chest and hand during a 'fight with one of the intruders. She was not badly hurt.

Police said that the couple | was staying the night with iMr Knight when three men I broke in. Mrs McKinnon (said that she was awakened Iby a man armed with a pisItol and was tied up. Mrs McKinnon, aged 26, managed to free herself while the robbers ransacked the apartment. She fought one of them before running down a corridor to a lift. But another intruder chased her into the lift, and stabbed her as they rode down from the twenty-third floor.

She managed to escape at the third floor while her attacker fled.

Her husband, a 29-year-old hospital psychiatrist, also struggled with the men before they ran away. He was unharmed.

Mr Knight had just been named director of new projects for the Philadelphia “Daily News.” He had previously worked for the Detroit “Free Press,” another of the 33 newspapers in the Knight-Ridder chain.