So none of his guests had cash or a credit card number to phone in to the restaurant? I find it kind of hard to believe that no one in the house had any other form of payment. Sounds like alcohol may have been a contributing factor here.
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Sounds like Boot Leather might be a factor here:
"Bedgood said he left to pay the food bill in person at the restaurant, and when he returned, police in force had Livsey in cuffs outside with individual police units stationed at several intersections in the neighborhood."
I suppose the "individual police units stationed at several intersections in the neighborhood" were necessary, in case the former general had a roving battalion-strength Combat Command in the area to rescue him...