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Show LIGHT COMPANY BEFEATSJOIWAT Jndge Bishop Holds That Litter Hohhrd Thorn (if Klec-tricity. Klec-tricity. FINK OF $25 IMPOSED; CASE WILL BK APPEALED Defendant tSUima to Have Invention In-vention That Will Startle the World. W. T. Conway, the only man up to ; date who has ever succeeded In beating the I'tah Light and Railway company out of more light than he paid for. has been found guilty by Judge Bishop and fined tX. Mr. Conway says he will appeal ap-peal tho case and fight It out In the higher courts. The story In a nutshell Is that Mr. t'onway attached a wire in the rear of his home meter, and after harnessing har-nessing the precious fluid escorted it to his workshop for use as wnnted. ! The man who reads the meter, and In- I cldentally has the patron of tho company at his mercy when ngurlng up how much he Is lndcbled to the concern, r.ust his -agle i )i toward the . ontrlvune..-and- tore It out by tho roots, so to speak, without ceremony and without consulting Mr. Conway. Claims He Is Innocent. Mi Conway claims that ho Is innocent of -defiling the electricity He admits that he made the connections because, h. wunted to uso some limits, and the company didn't have time to adjust them for him, but they had only bean Installed -lav when they were removed, and Mr Conway thinks that the company failed to provo that they had been robhe.l or any light at all Mr. Conway an Inventor. But in addition to being un electrician. Mr. Conway Is an Inventor. He says so himself, and while telling a Tribune reporter re-porter of his object In lighting up lii-workshop. lii-workshop. he related In detail how he expected to have steamships running between be-tween New York and London within it few years at the rat of sixty miles un hour Will Use Electricity. In speaking of his Invention, Mr. Con-wav Con-wav said "I am positive thut the model which I nm now at work on will lead to a great Invention. I um Just nn sure that I euii propel a boat at the rule of a mile a minute as 1 nm that I am living liv-ing I will ns electricity Instead of steam, but of course I won't obtain It from the I'tah Light and Railway company. com-pany. "There Is no reason why this can not I- done, and I think tefore long that I will be able to demonstrate this fact to the largest steamship builders In the country As I said before. It was for tin-purpose tin-purpose of making experiments that I made the connection with the electric wires, but I had no thought of robbing the company. However If I am successful success-ful In producing a boat that can travel ' n mile n minute I won't mind a little thing like a 125 fine." |