LEADS TO PRISON

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 87, 9 October 1935, Page 9

LEADS TO PRISON

A MAN'S APPETITE

Smiling broadly, a well-dressed man, John ■ Thompson, aged twenty-eight, stood in the dock at Liverpool recently listening with apparent pride to references to his enormous appetite, says the "News-Chronicle." At one meal which he partook of at the grill room, Lime-Street Station, and which lasted two. and a half hours, he consumed steak and vegetables, ham and eggs, three whiskies and sodas, a glass of sherry, and some beer.

Thompson was charged with fraudulently, obtaining credit from the railway company, and also from the proprietors of St. George's Restaurant. At the grill room his bill amounted to 18s 4d, and when it was handed to him he asked to see the manager. To him he explained: "I have had my meal, but I have got no money. My name is Thompson, and I live at Friary Park, Finchley, London."

He then suggested he was expecting some friends in a car. He gave the number of the car and went out saying he would look for his friends. But he did not return. Three days later, it was alleged, he went to the St. George's Kestaurant and had a meal costing 10s 2d. The waitress saw him place his check on another table and begin to walk away. She stopped him, and he told her he had no money, and had had nothing to eat for two days.

Thompson had refused to give any information about himself, and In remanding him in custody, the chairman, Mr. Julius Jacobs, remarked: "We shall have to keep you for five days. There ■will be nothing left for the other prisoners." Thompson smiled even mora "broadly; as he w.ent downstairs to the Cells, ' ' .