Great Cases of Detective Burns: How Abe Ruef Confessed

I'm not authorized by the prosecution to make you any offers of immunity,' I said; 'you must take your punishment in the French restaurant case; but it now depends on yourself whether you'll be pushed to the limit. The people are not in the mood to stand any trifling.'

"With this much to meditate on, I left him. I found it enough to start the ball rolling. Ruef sent for Henry Ach, his attorney, and began playing for time. When I saw him again he seemed more receptive; he was a wily one.