John J. Knight |
| Posted 2009-12-03 by Pat R |
| Arizona State Miner (Wickenburg) Saturday, January 9, 1926, p 3 c 1 Phoenix Sheriff Combs The Desert For Secret Of Murder Texas Oil Man's Skull and Burned Papers Widely Separated Sheriff Johnny Moore and a party of deputies have combed the desert and western foothills of the White Tanks Mountains and can find no evidence to add to the handbag that once belonged to John J. Knight and to the skull with gold-filled teeth, believed to be that of the missing Texas oil man. Bag and skull were found near each other, but fully 10 miles from the point where Knight's car was abandoned in the sands of the Hassayampa river's western bank. Soon after the disappearance, a suitcase that had belonged to Mr. Knight was found in the Buckeye canal, while papers it had contained were identified in the ashes of a fire in which they had been burned. It is believed, however, that this feature of the mysterious case was added by persons, presumably hunters, who stole the suitcase from the car and who had nothing to do with Knight's disappearance or murder. It is only known that they were in a Ford car. The sheriff has had no response thus far from a chart of the skull's teeth, sent to Dallas. There is understanding that the $5000 reward offered by Texas relatives has been withdrawn. |
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