The Laziest Man.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2664, 20 November 1909, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Laziest Man.

REFUSED WORK BECAUSE HIS “HAIR NEEDED DYING.”

“The laziest man in existence” has, according to a statement made by Inspector Young, of the N.S.P.C.G., been discovered .at West Green; London. The inspector "applied at Tottenham recently for a .summons against the person in" question for neglecting his i children/. . He .was, the inspector explained, the laziest man in the world. His wife said her . husband lay in bed all day, and never washed. There was nothing physically tho matter with lum.. She had dragged i him out of bed, but lie went back on the first occasion he could. On one occasion lie stayed m bed for three months. Once a letter came offering him employment, but he simply said, “I think it’s gaining; I’ll go -to-morrow. __ Tho next job he declined because he “wanted a new sot of teeth and liis hail dyed At another time lie went into the workhouse, but came, out to r go to bed. |Tjc. wife chased him out of the house with a poker, hut he got through the window and' went to bed. A ■ summons was granted, on _tne hearing of which he was sentenced to eix -months’ hard labor.