ALWAYS HUNGRY

Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20693, 31 December 1938, Page 14 (Supplement)

ALWAYS HUNGRY

BIG MAN’S APPETITE MOST OF STOCK EATEN Frank Mackowicki, 20 years old, 6ft 6in tall and 20 stone in weight, trundled into a restaurant in his size H boots, sat down and ordered a meal, writes the New York correspondent of a London newspaper. lie ale two pounds of steak, with potatoes, three large pieces of bread, some dessert, and two cups of coffee. Then he ordered the same meal all over again and ale that. Unsatisfied, he ale the complete dinner a third tim e. Frank was still hungry and was going to order a fourth, but by this time a crowd had gathered round his table, and he doesn't like people watching him eat. So he paid liis bill and got out. Frank bad a .job with a blacksmith then and could afford it. Bui when he got out of work he found that his appelite took some keeping. That is why Frank Mackowicki has been in trouble with the police, off and on, for ten years. Even the police agree that Frank has no criminal instincts —just the natural one of hunger. When the Newark police arrested him for his last outbreak, in which he looted siv cafes, he ate most of the stock and complained of feeling weak. Me has been in and out of reform institutions, always on the same charge, "breaking and entering a restaurant.’' Frank doesn't really mind being arrested. Mis 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 c' to i! - ■at a iw-b o at.”