ALWAYS HUNGRY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23691, 24 December 1938, Page 12

ALWAYS HUNGRY

BIG MAN'S APPETITE BREAKS INTO RESTAURANTS MOST OF STOCK EATEN Frank Mackowicki, 20 years old, 6ft 6in tall, and 20 stone in weight, trundled into a restaurant'in his size 14 boots, sat down, and ordered a meal 'writes the New York correspondent of a London newspaper). He ate two pounds of steaiC, with potates, three large pieces of bread, some dessert, and two cups of coffee. Then he ordered the same meal all over again, and ate that. Unsatisfied, he ate the complete dinner a third time. Frank was still hungry, and was going to order a fourth, but by this time a crowd had gathered round b:s tab'.e, and he does not like people watching him eat. So he paid his bill and- got out. Frank had a job with a blacksmith then, and could afford it. But when he got out of work he found that his appetite took some keeping. . , That is why Frank Mackowicki has been in trouble with the police off and on for 10 years. Even the police agree that Frank has no criminal instincts— ju:t the natural one of hunger. When the Newark police arrested him for his last outbreak, in which he looted six cafes, he ate most of the stock and complained of feeling weak. He has been in and out of reform institutions, always on the same charge, " breaking and entering a restaurant." , Frank does not really mind being arrested. His first meal at the police station was one foot of Bologna sausage, one whole loaf, four apple pies, and, in the words of the police chief, "enough coffee to float a rowboat."