His period of immunity was over.

His eye caught Gottlieb and myself standing on the corner.
"Well, boys," he exclaimed ruefully, "I'm caught.

How much is it going to cost ?" "Fifteen thousand dollars," answered Gottlieb, adding, after a moment's pause--"and disbursements." I need hardly add that Mr.Brown lost no time in raising the necessary ransom and within the hour had paid his judgment in full and secured his discharge.

The days are long since over, however, when judgment defaulters had anything to fear; and now a beneficent bankruptcy law, merely for the asking, washes all their debts away.
But the power to secure another's arrest is even more easily available now than in the days of my early practice owing to the great number of new crimes created by the statutes.
One of the most ingenious devices for extorting money that ever came to my attention was invented by a client of mine named Levine -- a poor sort of character, to be sure, but cleverer than many a better man.

In detail his method was as follows: He first bought at wholesale a large quantity of cheap watches covered with gold plate.