Ed Hutcheson, the tough editor of The New York Daily, found that the heirs of the deceased owner were selling the newspaper to a strictly commercial competitor. At first, he thought the upcoming unemployment was an opportunity to recapture his separated wife, Nora. However, when a reporter was tracking the clues of the blackmailer Reenzi, he was severely beaten, and Hutchison was stabbed and began a full-scale crusade against the gangsters, hoping that Reenzi could be linked to the murder of a woman... In the three issues before the end of "The Day"