But, unhappily, eachalibi would have been almost equally compromising.
Well, the shadow in this picture will prove an alibi for some one.
Thus a person charged with an offence may be able to prove an alibi by the aid of a skilfully prepared combination photograph.
If you can prove an alibion my behalf, I can prove one on yours.
I had seen a cavalryman passing along the road in front of the house, and as Mr. Alibi came in at the same moment, I sent him to hail the wayfarer, and bring him to the house.
When he was told that you had not come, he seemed very low-spirited, and told Mr. Alibi that he must see you, to give you a paper.
As I finished this note, Mr. Alibi appeared with the cavalryman.
And Mr. Alibi flapped his wings, stretched out his neck, and seemed about to cackle.
Mohun returned to his camp, and I remained at the house of Mr. Alibi until morning, stretched on a lounge, and wrapped in my cape.
I do not know if she is a witch or an epileptic, or what--but she has convinced me that Alibi has the paper we want.
Mr. Alibi took a bucket, and went out as though to seek the spring.
Faking is mighty poor business Ted, whether it's trying to establish an alibi for flunking your school exams, or making army shoes with paper soles for the government.
I can furnish an alibi for the entire day," Lynch added.
I think even Max Lynch may find it difficult to alibi this.
This savored strongly of an attempt to alibi a confederate, and Spurrier inquired bluntly: "Since you broached this subject, I think it's fair to ask you another question.
Here was where his proper alibi began, with the exception of Jim Farland.
How did he know I was going to make analibi like that?
In fact, we have an alibi that tells us that Sid was quite a distance from Rufus Shepley's suite when Shepley was slain.
I just want you to whisper in the ear of the court that the alibilooks good, and let it go at that.
We know that he tried to help smash your alibi by telling a falsehood, and by sending those notes to the barber and the merchant.
It told you not to help a man named Sidney Prale, arrested for murder, to make his alibi by telling that he was here with this man last night about eleven o'clock, didn't it?
It would have made his alibi stronger, of course, and every little bit helps.
Farland has given me to understand that myalibi now is of such a nature that the case against me may be dismissed.
You mean to say that he has any sort of an alibi at all?
An alibi is an important thing in a case like this," Farland said.
His alibi was perfect; they soon would know that he could not have committed the crime.
Crooks like them can fix up an alibi when they need one.
When men are banded together for the purpose of committing crime, the sanctity of an oath is easily laid aside when an alibi becomes necessary.
There they found a number of the men present who were to serve as witnesses to establish an alibi for the slayers.
The alibi was, however completely broken down by witnesses for the Commonwealth, with the result that a number of the conspirators are now doing time in the State penitentiary.
At the desk, when the accusation had been read and the alibi announced, Dossonville extended his hand to Barabant and said: "Thanks, citoyen.
Like every other suspected person, he wanted time, and time would be taken up in proving an alibi for Cyril, as well as showing by concurrent proof that he was not his brother.
Either the alibi would break down altogether, or it would be perfectly clear that Guy had committed a forgery.
And that was one of the days, I think, when you proved the alibi in Belgium before the Devonshire magistrates at Tavistock yesterday," the clerk went on, with a searching glance.
An alibi prepared in advance," objected the examining-magistrate.
Next to an alibi that breaks down;--you know what an alibi is, Madame Goesler?
Next to an alibi that breaks down, an unsuccessful attempt to affix the fault on another party is the most fatal blow which a prisoner's counsel can inflict upon him.
However, an alibi might very easily discount all this circumstantial evidence, were it not for the fact that there could be no alibi for Bob McGraw, for beyond doubt he must have been in the neighborhood of Garlock that very day.
Alibi or no alibi, he'll get twenty years in San Quentin on that evidence" mourned Harley P.
These papers are merely a few affidavits, proving an absolute alibi in the matter of that Garlock robbery.
Next to the alibicomes Paddy's powers in sustaining a cross-examination.
He is accordingly great in it; but still we maintain that his execution of an alibi is his ablest performance, comprising, as it does, both the conception and construction of the work.
Put him forward to prove an alibi for his fourteenth or fifteenth cousin, and you will be gratified by the pomp, pride, and circumstance of true swearing.
But beyond Bailey Harbor he saw his alibi crumbling.
Instinctively he began building up analibi and planning his flight.
