KNIGHT'S REPUTATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 42, 18 February 1913, Page 5

KNIGHT'S REPUTATION.

MESSAGE TO HfS BISHOP. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (United Press Association.) London, February 17. The Daily Mail says that Captain Hutchinson, of the Port Lincoln, wirelessly transmitted Knight’s message to the Bishop of Ripon, relinquishing his priestly orders; also a statement to the public to the effect that while working in Leeds in connection with the white slavery cause he lost his good reputation and the reputation of a comrade working with him, through babbling tongues seeing evil where it did not exist. While seeking to prevent a girl being sent to a house of ill-fame in Leeds, he was openly accused of evil by one of his church workers. Feeling that ho had brought ruin and disgrace on the church ho thought that by dying in one country lie might recover for himself and restore to his comrade a new reputation. Knight adds that his wife is not blameworthy. “1 am,” he says, “prepared to bear the consequences. I have no definite plans except working for a living, seeking even as an outcast to do some good in the world and redeem what appears to be evil.” THIS STATEMENT REPUDIATED. (Received 10.20 a.m.) London, February 17. The National VilTgance Association denies Knight’s white slave efforts. He merely answered the Association s formal questions, which did not necessitate Ids visiting suspicious houses.