Clarendon and Higgins had led the way through the secret passage — which was revealed to them in diagrams — and had overheard Savoli’s conference with his underlings.
They had been waiting, Higgins with his automatic ready, when Monk Thurman had made his entry. The assistant commissioner had been prepared to shoot the first man who made a move.
Steve Cronin had been the victim. Once too often had he sought to thwart The Shadow.
The Shadow had been everywhere during the battles in Chicago. He had traveled in numerous disguises; he had been on the building when Larrigan was killed. He had taken photographs that were useful to the district attorney’s office.
But his important connection with evidence assembled never reached the public. He was known simply as Mr. X, the man who had tipped off the police.
The chief credit for the work that had ended in the spectacular raid belonged to Morris Clarendon and Barney Higgins.
The Shadow had submerged his identity. He had come to Chicago unknown; he had left without any one discovering who he actually was. By his amazing skill, he had caused rebellion in the Savoli ranks and had pitted one gang against another, until the vast organization of the underworld had crumbled.
Jerry Kirklyn found wonderful material for his newspaper. The data supplied by Barney Higgins reached the front pages of the Chicago dailies, and brought new and more amazing revelations that exposed the machinations of Savoli and his lieutenants.
BACK home, Vincent followed the accounts of doings in Chicago long after the day when he had participated in the raid that had ended the regime of Nick Savoli.
The trial of Machine-gun McGinnis had resulted in a complete victory for the State. The man who had murdered Claude Fellows received the death penalty.