Show FOR STEALING ELECTRICITY CiTY w T Conway Is Arrested Charged With Tapping Wires JUMPER SAID TO BE USED LIGHT INVESTIGATION INVESTIGATION TION RESULTS IN WARRANT W T Conway Is accused of using what the Utah Light Railway com company company pany officials regard as a jumper of ofa ofa a character most unholy for the pur purpose purpose pose of defrauding the company of Its increment from light supplied to the Conway home at Fourth street Con Conway Conway way was arrested yesterday charged with a violation of section re revised revised statutes which makes it a mis misdemeanor misdemeanor demeanor to employ a device to secure electricity without causing the current to pass through the meter provided for registering the quantity of electricity consumed The electrIc light experts give Con Conway Conway way credit for constructing the smoothest device they have encountered encountered ered HI His method of keeping the light bill down was worked successfully from about the middle of October until Dec 9 when the company got on Whether the small amount of regis registering registering done by the Conway meter aroused suspicion Is not stated but George R fl and Don S Campbell inspectors for the company visited the Conway residence Dec 9 to read and inspect the meter s J hey pried around a bit and turned on the theU U lights of the house Next they turned off the main switch ahead if f the he me meter er but the lights continued to 10 bUrn They Say Hoots George mon remarked Mr Campbell Im telling thee there is with the hoose Mr concurred Being inspect inspectors ors they knew what the layman might not know When the main switch is thrown off and the lights hold out to burn the current not through the meter The Inspectors proceeded to inspect and encountered the unholy jumper presently A jumper is a conn connected wire that passes around the m meter ter That Is to say It jumps the meter hence the name The jumper in the Con Conway way house was found to be concealed by a small nall shelf placed above the niter The wires entering through U 11 the he f wall of the house and passing to Lo the meter on the wall inside Lad iad been tapped just above the half The jumping wires were then conducted around the meter and connected with the house wires be beyond ond the meter The connection was established by means of spiral springs of wire and hooks so that the current could be cut through the meter or jumped around it by bythe bythe the simple process of changing from one set of hooks to the other Complaint Is Issued The case was laid before Assistant County Attorney Willard Hanson Aft After After er hearing a statement of the alleged facts in the matter Mr 11 Hanson drew drewa a 8 complaint which was sworn to by byM byM M C Godbe city superintendent of light service for the company Conway was arrested yesterday afternoon and made a virtual admission that he had done the wiring himself He is known as a man of an inventive turn of mind and had evolved several clever me mechanical mechanical devices Under the statutes of the state the offense constitutes a misdemeanor and andis is punishable by six months in the county jail or a fine of or both |