Shayne folded the paper and read a boxed editorial near the center of the page. It was starkly titled, WARNING!

Jeff Towne is a two-fisted fighting man. Those of us in El Paso who have followed his career with interest during the past decade know this to be true. He is a man accustomed to ride roughshod over his enemies, crushing and casting aside those who oppose him, surging upward through sheer aggressiveness to a position of industrial and financial leadership in this community.

Now, looking for more worlds to conquer, Jeff Towne has acquired political ambitions, and he brings to the political arena those same ruthless characteristics that have not failed him in the past. Jeff Towne is determined to be the next mayor of El Paso!

Yesterday a young soldier died beneath the wheels of Jeff Towne’s speeding limousine in the streets of this city. Crushed, as other men have been crushed when they stood in Jeff Towne’s way.

Fearful of a public reaction which will smash his political aspirations beneath a landslide of votes for Honest John Carter, Jeff Towne is fighting back!

With a vast fortune at his disposal, Towne has retained the services of a notorious private detective to fly here from New Orleans in a desperate attempt to cover up the true facts in this case.

Some of us in El Paso know Michael Shayne personally, and most of us know of him through newspaper accounts of his past exploits in cleverly circumventing the Law and disproving the guilt of wealthy clients.

The citizens of El Paso are solemnly warned to expect subtle trickery and distortion of facts by this detective when he takes over the case against Jeff Towne. An indication of his methods is his telephonic demand of yesterday upon Chief Dyer that an autopsy be immediately performed upon the body of Towne’s victim for the ostensible purpose of ascertaining the cause of death.