The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-01
M Knight Arraigned Asks
a Jury Trial.
A DIP INTO HIS PAST
GIimpses of His Career at Greensboro
High Point, etc. Are the Doctors
Feet Loaded, or Can He Turn
in Drodping Like
Cal?
Especial to News and Observer }


Harry p. MacKnight, who was ar
rested here Tuesday on charge of
attempted false pretenses preferred by
the local manager of the w. {. T. u,
was this morning arraigned in police
court He entered a pleas Of not
guilty and demanded jury trial.
This action on his part necessitated
a continuance of the case. office was
given by the prosecuting attorney that
additional charges may be filed in the
case before the jury trial is had.
Since his arrest the police here have
learned considerable about MacKnight
and his history. First it was ascer
tanned that when he arrived here
little over two weeks ago he was ac
companied by a young woman, whom
he took to the Sibley Hospital and
there introduced her as his patient
MISS Ellen Burnap, of Lowell, Mass.
This development came through DR.
MacKnight explaining his possession
OF q $50 draft signed Ey a Mrs. Bur-
nap of Lowell. At the hospital, II
was stated that MacKnight had paid
in advance for two weeks board foI
his patient and tnat he had also paid
foI an operation which was found t.
be Immediately necessary Miss Bun
nap was reported as peing we'll on the
road to recovery and it is learned
from Lowell, Mass, that Miss Burnap
and her mother met MaCKnight at
cuthern Pines.
FROM indianapolis, Ind., whict4
1plaee MacKnigpt gave as his home, it
was feaInea thAt Harry p. Macknight
was married i'm that city about tw
y, ars ago, and that he practiced ''elec-
triCal treatment" while there, later go
ing to Greensboro, N. c., and to High
Point, n. c., where he was known as
IKE healer. At the last named place
he was the central figure in a sensa-
tic nal slander suit in the summer OF
1901.
Of these later Incidents of his case.
Nj cKnight says lie was a victim -
/ ersecution at the haI dS of doctors in
North Carolina. He is an osteopath,
a his successful practice, he stated
M. de enemies for him among other
physicians, he was arrested and tried
o. an alleged violation of the medica
Law and was acquitted by Magistrate
Q w Shaw. Later he was indicted
~ the grand jury and acquitted.
The case went to the Supreme
court he says, and was decided in his
favor But at Southern Pines. for
which he now Processes to be laboring
50 unselfshly. he seems to b. more
beloved than he was in Greensboro
and High Point, since it appears from
papers sent here by Mayor Ferguson
that he was there charged with being
an ex-convict. In support of ,his the
Org the police here have been furnish
eG with a photograph taken twelve
vars ago at Columbus, Ohio.
The name on the photograph is
Hiram p. MacKnight and his profess
sion is given as that Of \ lawyer The
I isoner denied that the old photo
graph was a likeness of him, and also
said he had never served in prison.
The photograph, he stated, is that of
e cousin, who was arrested and after
wards pardoned because it was shown
tfat he was innocent. He said there
are four relatives with the same init
ials.
DR.. MacKnight said he was born in
Georgia about twenty miles from
Macon. and that he afterwards went
t. New York, where he gradual ed rom
the Albany law school. He also lived
81 Detroit, Mich, and said he was as
s:stant la wreporter in a court presid-
e1 over by Judge Brown, who is now
one of the justices of the Supreme
&C Lrt of the United States.
MacKnight denied that he had ever
&C elected any money for the purpose
OF building a hospital at Southern
I1r es, which he stated, is to e used
for the treatment of young women
ccr nected with the w. G. r. r. He
sSys he never received one cent for
lis labors in connection with the work
% establishing the hospital, but was
or ~ securing the subscription
When I'm released" he said. "I
S. II renew the work of eadeevoring
t provide the necessary mo ey for
the erection of the hospital al South
ern Pines"
The ground, he stated, had already
been donated. In other words DR.
MacKnight proposes that as soon as
he goes out of Jail Southern Pines and
the w. G. T. q. shall have that hos
pltal whether they want it or not.
Hon. G. b. Patterson, of the Sixth
North Carolina District. who is in the
city on Department business for some
of his constituents. is of the opinion
that the reduction plank in the Re-
publican national platform will harm
the negro. He is quoted by the Wash
ington correspondent of a Richmond
paper as saying:
THE specific plank in the Republi-
can platform referred to, speaks of re-
ducing the representation of any
State found to be unconstitutionally
withholding suffrage from any of its
citizens. Though used in the ordinary
sense, this phrase is easily interpreted
We remember that the same man who
read this plank to the Republican
delegates at Chicago was the most ac-
tive advocate of the famous force bill.