Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-01-03 | Page 1 | Nude Maniac Tries to Preach Sermon

NUDE MANIAC TRIES TO PREACH SERMON Disrobes and Attempts to Force Way to Pulpit of Spokane Evangelist. SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 2. Stark naked and raving mad, Frank Mays, a strapping laborer, 20 years old, went suddenly insano in tho "Billy Sunday" Sun-day" tabeniaclo about G o'clock last night and attempted to mount tho pulpit pul-pit to dclivor an exhortation to tho assembled as-sembled carJy-comers on "Tho Devil." Tho madman was prevented from carding card-ing out. his purpose by ushers with whom ho fought like a tiger. Wrap-pod Wrap-pod in a blanket, tho insano man was taken to tho city jail, bound hand and foot. At tho station Mays declared ho had disrobed to prove that ho was an ajigel from God. Still manacled, tho man was locked up ni 11 strong cell, where ho squirmed out of tho blanket ana began to shout that he was the devil como to put "Billy Sunday" out of business. Ho varied theso statements by singing hymns. Beforo making his spectacular at-tompt at-tompt to outer the tabernacle, Mays went into a waiting room whero ho disrobed. dis-robed. TIo was half way to tho pulpit when ho was discovered. His herculean hercu-lean strength onablod him to light his captors for several minutes beforo ho was overcome and bound.