A murder had certainly been committed.
It was just as necessary as ever, therefore, for the detectives to capture the trio of villains.
Evelyn Grimm and her rascally uncle were now entirely out of the case.
The young girl’s friends took hold of her affairs, with the assurance that much of the inheritance would be saved for her.
As for Napoleon Blood, he was held for trial on a number of criminal charges.
Scraggs, the Asylum keeper, was also jailed and his asylum closed.
The case simmered rapidly down to the problem of running down the Tough Trio.
Or rather to the running down of the Bradys by this clique of rogues.
For that they had not abandoned their purpose of assassinating the detectives was proved by the following startling message received by Old King Brady one day.
Thus it read: