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Show SUES POPE LEO XIII. : Deranged New York Lawyer Seeks j to Escheat Cathedral Site. Monroe Frank, a lawyer, has filed a lis pendens against the block on I which St. Patrick's cathedral stands, I in an action which he has brought in the supreme court, New York, against "Leo the Thirteenth, a person calling himself the only visible earthly representative repre-sentative of the infinite power of the I universe, and John Doe, a person whose real name is unknown to plaintiff." plain-tiff." He designates the action as one "for the purpose of preventing, the threatened waste of real estate property proper-ty in which the United States of America Amer-ica has an Interest." He asks that all persons be removed from the property and that costs be payable by the defendants de-fendants personally to him. At Monroe Frank's home. No. 155 East Forty-second street, New York, it was said that he had been placed under the care af a physician, awaiting await-ing further evidences of mental derangement, de-rangement, of which his action regarding regard-ing the cathedral was one. Frank has been studying and attending to busi ness so seriously that his health and mind have suffered. |