ENORMOUS APPETITE

Evening Star, Issue 22144, 26 September 1935, Page 5

ENORMOUS APPETITE

Smiling broadly, a well-dressed man, John Thompson, aged 28, stood m tho 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 and a-half hours, he consumed steak and vegetables, ham and eggs, three whiskies and sodas, a glass ot sherry and some beer. . • Thompson was charged with fradulently obtaining credit from the railway company, and also from the proprietors of St. George’s Restaurant. At the grill room his bill amounted to 18s 4d, and when it was handed to him ho asked to see the manager. To him m explained: “I have had my meal, but [ have got no money. ‘ My name is Thompson, and I live at Friary 1 ark, Finchley, London.” He then suggested he was expecting some friends in a car. He gave the number of the car and went out saying lie would look for his friends. But he did not return. Three days later, it was alleged, he went to the ot. 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 he 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, Mr 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.