ENORMOUS APPETITE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 228, 28 September 1935, Page 7

ENORMOUS APPETITE

i Smiling- broadly, a well-dressed man. ! .lut n i | Mtn, aged 2S, st in I he l.ivi-rptml dm-l; recently listening with i :i ,»j»u i ent pi <l ( > lo references to his on"lite \ t nite meal w hit li hr partook of at thu grill room. Lime an<l n half hours, he vonsumed steak tint! vegetables, ham and eggs three | whiskies and sodas, a glass of sherry

ami some beer. 'l'hompson was charged with frauduI lently obtaining c.edit from tfie railI way company, and also from the pro- , pr ctors of St. George’s Restaurant. At Hie grill room his bill amounted to .iSs ! bl., find when it was winded lo h in he 1 asked to see the, manager. T.) him he i explained: “ I have had my mual, but 1 . , have got no money. My name is ThompI son. and I live at Faiary Park, I inchlcy ■ | London.’ | He then suggested he wm expecting

I some friends in a car. iic gave the num- ' ber of the car amt went out >uying he would look for his friends. But he dhl , not leturn. Three days later, it was i alleged, he went to the St. G. urge’s I Restaurant find had a mea! costing 10s 2d. The ’waitress saw him place h s check on another table and begin to , walk away. She stopped him. and he told her he no money find had had nothing to cat for two days. j Thompson had refused to give any information about himself, and in re-

manding him in ciistodv the chairimin, Mr. Julius Jackobs, remarked. “We shall have to keep vou for live daye. There w I be nothing left for the other p.isoncrs.Thompson smiled oven more bmadlv as he went downstairs to the