Grim Justice
Garrie Hall

	Those of the underworld are not sleeping soundly in 
	their beds. Not while Grim Justice stalks the night.

	Tony Scalesi walked free from court last week after 
	a technicality stopped justice from taking its 
	course. Yesterday he was found dead. His body was 
	riddled with bullets but the Coroner determined that 
	the cause of death was heart failure due to a massive 
	shock or trauma.
	
	A calling card was left with the body, a picture of 
	the Grim Reaper holding the scales of justice. 
	Scalesi is the tenth victim of the masked vigilante 
	the papers call 'Grim Justice'. All have been 
	criminals.
	
	Little is known about Grim Justice. He (it?) seems to be a 
creature of the supernatural, not least in physical aspect. A thing 
with no face, just a skull and the ability to appear and disappear 
into the night.
	Grim Justice exhibits an uncanny ability to find his victims 
wherever they choose to hide. To date no less than ten known gangsters 
and countless lesser felons have fallen to his 'tommy gun'.

Possibilities
1       Grim Justice is the ghost of Jim Malone, a cop investigating 
high level corruption and murdered by gangsters in cold blood in front 
of his family. His tortured soul has risen from the grave and stalks 
the city, avenging Malone. He is killing those that he believes set 
him up, from the hoods that pulled the trigger to his boss, Police 
Chief Nathan Jordan.
	Jordan has guessed the force behind Grim Justice and will 
covertly hire investigators to 'exorcise' this menace.

2       Grim Justice is a highly organised and dedicated group of 
vigilantes. They have agents placed in all walks of life from the 
ganglands to the courts and can trace just about anyone anywhere.
	However, the organisation has fascist tendencies and is 
inclined to target non-WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) 
individuals. Attempts to breach their security will be met with 
violent resistance.

3       Grim Justice is a classic case of paranoid schizophrenia. By 
day he is plain old Harry Brown, librarian and something of an expert 
in the occult. By night he is Grim Justice.
	Brown was driven insane by the sight of his parents gunned 
down in cold blood by a lone robber. He has remained stable until 
recently when he witnessed another killing, pushing him over the edge.
	As Grim Justice, he uses his considerable occult knowledge to 
magic his way to his victims. By night Harry Brown is a powerful 
sorcerer indiscriminately murdering criminals and gangsters.

Copyright (c) 1990 Garrie Hall