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This scheme had therefore been hit upon, and very successfully; for proving before a magistrate that a man was carried home dead drunk and speechless at midnight, was quite as good an alibi as could be brought forward.
'Tis true, there is nothing perfect under the sun; but if there were, it would certainly be Paddy at an alibi.
Then the guest looked up from his book and stated his alibi: 'I was in my stable, sitting up with a sick horse, he said. 'I came away long after the church service was over when the poor beast died with frothing at the nose. You can ask my stable-boy. Jack bowed his head respectfully. 'Your stableboy, Mutenu, has told me so this evening, he said. 'But, O master, why should we lie?
Everything would have been against me, the rope ladder and all the things I had said." "But then you could have proved an alibi," said Nance. "You were up here the night the ghost chased Molly and me." "So I could," Judy exclaimed. "I was so scared I forgot all about that night. There's something about Adele that makes you lose your senses.
"He is popularly supposed to start every dog fight in Nome; but this time he can prove a clear alibi, for he slept at the foot of my bed all night."
Well, Alibi had never gotten one of these five-dollar bills, because he was usually in just before Saint Peter closed the gate. Several times he had been reproved, and once Mr. Armour had said, "Tom, be late once more and you are a has-wazzer." Shortly after this, one night, Alibi Tom had a half-dozen stockmen to entertain.
"And, what's more, he couldn't have made the remark the way Shakespeare has it, anyhow," said Yorick, "and for a very good reason. I wasn't buried in that graveyard, and Hamlet and I can prove an alibi for the skull, too." "It was a good play, just the same," said Cicero. "Very," put in Doctor Johnson. "It cured me of insomnia."
Though connected with the White-Cap affair by which Alfred lost his eyesight and his life, he proved an alibi, or spasmodic paresis, or something, and, having stood a compurgation and "ordeal" trial, was released.
He told his landlady he was going to Devonport, so that if he bungled, the police would be put temporarily off his track. His real destination was Liverpool, for he intended to leave the country. Lest, however, his plan should break down here, too, he arranged an ingenious alibi by being driven to Euston for the 5.15 train to Liverpool.
Medical gentlemen are always very positive about their evidence. They have to be otherwise who'd believe 'em? If we'd time I could tell you of a case in which well, 'twas all because of Dr. Gaunt that the murderer escaped. We all knew perfectly well the man we caught did it, but he was able to prove an alibi as to the time Dr. Gaunt said the poor soul was killed."
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