These reports had been in the morning newspapers, but the full story had been left for the evening journals. The later papers had amplified the news of the underworld with even more sensational findings.
On a lonely road, near the Indiana border, the police had discovered the bodies of those notorious killers, John Genara and Tony Anelmo!
Four Savoli henchmen in a single night! What was in back of this?
The newspapers hinted that the Sicilians had been put on the spot for attempting a double cross; but they made no connection with the Varona-Vacchi murder, which seemed obviously the work of rival gangsters.
MIKE LARRIGAN grinned grimly as he read the reports. This was good news to him.
Varona and Vacchi had been able lieutenants of the big shot; Genara and Anelmo had been Savoli’s most formidable killers. There could be only one immediate result: a weakening of the Savoli forces.
This was opportunity.
That night, three of Larrigan’s hoodlums acting under orders, entered a road house and shot down two of Savoli’s gunmen. The news was phoned immediately to the big shot and his enforcer.
Borrango called up Larrigan. He heard nothing but curses in reply.
Then Machine-gun McGinnis brought in the news that Larrigan had not kept the rendezvous that would have led to the death of Monk Thurman.