NO GAOL TO HOLD HIM.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 127, 30 May 1908, Page 6

NO GAOL TO HOLD HIM.

"Dan" Wadsworth, Hartford's heavy man, and said to be the fattest man in all New England, is in gaol, serving a sentence of sixty days for in- "* fraction of the State's liquor law. But this is only half the truth, for "Dan" is not confined in a cell, nor does he wear the gaol uniform. The reason is obvious. ' He weighs 29st, and there is no uniform in the gaoler's outfit that he could get into. It is just possible for him to squeeze through any of the prison doors. The gaoler recognised that in the peace and quiet of a cell, with wholesome food and little exercise, Wadsworth's inclination to take on flesh would meet with unusually favourable \ conditions, so though he might be squeezed in, at the end of sixty days it might become a question whether he could be got out without pulling doVn the cell wall. Since he could not be put in any cell he was confined (a misnomer) in the hospital ward, where he does pretty much as he likes. As "a matter of principle" he elected "to take it out" rather than pay a fine of £5 and costs, but takes his detention philosophically. To a newspaper man who interviewed him he said: "I have a good bed here, plenty of good food to eat, and would just as soon spend the next too months here as anywhere else. The March N winds now appeal to me, anyhow; and it doesn't pay to worry."