No Gaol to Hold Him.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13608, 30 May 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)

No Gaol to Hold Him.

" Dan" Wadsworth, Hartford's lieavy man and .said to be the fattest man in all Now England, is iii gaol scrying a sentence of sixty daya for infraction of the State's liquor lav. But this is otily half the truth, for "Dan" is not confined iu a cell, nor. doea he wear the gaol uniform. The reason is obvious. He weighs 29st, and theie is no uniform iu the gaoler's outfit that he could get into. It- is just- possible for hint to squeeze through any of thu prison doois. The gaoler recognised ma. in the peace and quiet- of a cell, and wholesome food avj.j little exercise, Wadsworth's inclination s to take on flesh would meet with unusually favourable conditions, so though he might be squeezed in, at the end 01 sixty uays it might become a, question whether he could be got. out without pulling down the cell wall. Si net he could not be put in any ceil he was confined (a misnomer) in the hospital waru, where he does pretty much as ho likes. As " a matter of principle,"' he elected " to take it out " rather than pay a tine of £5 and costs, but takes his detention philosophicallv. / To a new.>pu L .-. man who interviewed liini he said: " 1 have a good bad here, plenty of good food to eat, and would just as .voon spend the next, two months here ab anywhere else. The March winds now appeal to me, anyhow : and it doesn't pay to worry."