ENORMOUS APPETITE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22719, 4 November 1935, Page 6

ENORMOUS APPETITE

Smiling broadly, a -well-dressed man, John Thompson, aged 28, stood in the dock at Liverpool recently listening with apparent pride to references to his enormous appetite. At one meal which he partook of at the grill room, Lime street station, and which lasted two hours and a-half, 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 grid room his bill amounted to IBs 4d, and when it was handed to him he asked to see the manager. To him he explainedr “a. 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 cax\ 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 Restaurant 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 ho 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, Air Julius Jacobs, remarked: “We shall have to keep you for five days. There will be nothing 'left for the other prisoners.” Thompson smiled even more broadly as he went downstairs to the cells.