Show TRAGEDY IN MONTANA anaconda na shut down herne lie did not 11 heller oller in murderer a invention enraged by an imaginary grievance john mcgeary formerly employed by the anaconda copper mining company at the Nta washoe shoe smelling smelting sm elting plant in ann anaconda mont deliberately shot and fatally injured william J evans gene gen eral superintendent of machinery of the amalgamated properties sunday morning mr evans succumbed to the wounds a few hours later the assassin shot mr evans first in the back of the neck the ball finding au an exit through the face ilia I 1 he second ball was fired into the right side of the back after the victim lay prostrate on the ground mcgeary attempted to make his escape but was shot by a bystander and seriously wounded when he surrendered the shooting down of the popular official of the anaconda company is the direct result of a desire on the part of mcgeary to have installed in the concentration plant a device which he claims be a great improvement as complied with the machinery now in use mcgeary Mt Geary according to his hl own atory tor y 1 declares that thai lie he has invented a 1 simple I 1 1 e piece of machinery known as a rack to hold field the screen in the jig and th this is ho says lie he wanted tried at the works in order that lie he might learn how successful it would be frequently mcgeary has called on mr alvans and asked him that he be be given an opportunity to improve the concentrator but bet believing leving that there was waa little if any value in the device tied had not taken the matter up in earnest as an Ate mcgeary Geary had desired and this was the cause of the work mans hatred for the official |