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Domestic News
December 19, 1910
The Evening Standard
Ogden, Weber County, Utah
What is this article about?
In Salt Lake on Dec. 18, Utah Light & Railway agents investigate Harry Revier, Majestic theatre manager, for stealing electricity via wire manipulation to avoid meter charges, preparing to prosecute.
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PROBING SECRETS OF "JUICE" THEFTS
SALT LAKE, Dec. 18-Some interesting data relative to the "ways" of reducing operating expenses of a moving picture theatre, are being gathered by the Utah Light & Railway agents to prosecute their case against Harry Revier as manager of the Majestic theatre for "swiping" juice to operate the moving picture machine in that place.
According to information now in the hands of agents of the company, Revier is rather handy when it comes to manipulating innocent looking little wires and switches in the operating room of a theatre. In fact, it is said that he is a master of the art of manufacturing and applying "jumpers"— the electrician's slang phrase for a wire that will carry a large portion of the current from a switch through a moving picture machine and back to the grounding wire, without it passing through the recording meter and piling up the bill of the user.
Revier, it is declared, had his operating room at the Majestic so nicely arranged and equipped that he jealously guarded it from inspection by any electrician who might be in the employ of the light company, unless he had visited the room himself, first.
The company is securing witnesses and evidence and is preparing to fight the case against Revier to the last ditch.
SALT LAKE, Dec. 18-Some interesting data relative to the "ways" of reducing operating expenses of a moving picture theatre, are being gathered by the Utah Light & Railway agents to prosecute their case against Harry Revier as manager of the Majestic theatre for "swiping" juice to operate the moving picture machine in that place.
According to information now in the hands of agents of the company, Revier is rather handy when it comes to manipulating innocent looking little wires and switches in the operating room of a theatre. In fact, it is said that he is a master of the art of manufacturing and applying "jumpers"— the electrician's slang phrase for a wire that will carry a large portion of the current from a switch through a moving picture machine and back to the grounding wire, without it passing through the recording meter and piling up the bill of the user.
Revier, it is declared, had his operating room at the Majestic so nicely arranged and equipped that he jealously guarded it from inspection by any electrician who might be in the employ of the light company, unless he had visited the room himself, first.
The company is securing witnesses and evidence and is preparing to fight the case against Revier to the last ditch.
What sub-type of article is it?
Crime
Legal Or Court
What keywords are associated?
Electricity Theft
Harry Revier
Majestic Theatre
Utah Light Railway
Jumpers
What entities or persons were involved?
Harry Revier
Where did it happen?
Salt Lake
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Salt Lake
Event Date
Dec. 18
Key Persons
Harry Revier
Outcome
the company is securing witnesses and evidence and is preparing to fight the case against revier to the last ditch.
Event Details
Utah Light & Railway agents are gathering data on Harry Revier, manager of the Majestic theatre, for allegedly stealing electricity by manipulating wires and switches to bypass the meter using 'jumpers'. He guarded the operating room from inspections.