Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1915 — Insane Man Wanted to Advise President About Peace. [ARTICLE]

Insane Man Wanted to Advise President About Peace.

If you have some hobby about how to restore peace in Europe you had better not make a trip to Washington to try to tell thfe president about it. Frank Frycek, of Chicago, became imbued with the idea that he was a “special priest, appointed by God” and he secured the garb of a priest and went to Washington to see President Wilson and advise him how to end the war. Such cranks have always been a common thing and the White House is supplied with some special police to prevent them from seeing the chief magistrate. Frycek was arrested and taken to the Washington asylum for observation as to his mental condition. He is 55 years old and a native Bohemian.