Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without the aid of a "good alibi," and near the scene of the crime instead of outside the county, John ("Garry") Scaccio, henchman of pasty-faced Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond, went on trial at Catskill, N. Y. last week. He was accused of torturing a Greene County cider hauler in the course of an applejack war. In Troy last month Gangster Diamond was acquitted of a part in the same crime on the strength of an alibi supported by a "physio-therapeutist" who has since become the State's target for perjury proceedings (TIME, July 27). It took only...
From the criminals' lexicon comes this saw: You can always buy an alibi. Whether bought or not, simple alibis twice in a month have overridden masses of condemning evidence gathered by the State of New York...
...them under the farmer's wriggling feet, himself set fire to Parks's old-fashioned underdrawers. Three State witnesses placed Diamond near the scene of the crime around the time it happened. Five men, including a "physio-therapeutist"' and a jobless street-cleaning commissioner, presented the alibi: that Diamond was in Albany, many miles away. The jury voted "Not Guilty." Attorney General Bennett declared himself "stunned! . . . But I intend to continue the prosecution." Observers thought he would try to get perjury indictments for those who came forward with Diamond's alibi...
...nomination even by a minority vote was due chiefly to the good work of his payroll machine, the Negro vote, the solid support of the "gang wards." Two also-ran Republican candidates took enough anti-Thompson votes away from Judge Lyle to give him an alibi in defeat...
...usual returns from honest (?!) bankrupts. In dollars and cents, 37½% is equal to about $1,500,000. If you add to it the $1,750,000 absorbed by referees, receivers, trustees, auditors, experts, court fees, lawyer fees, plus the $1,500,000 of "depreciation" of assets (great alibi that!), plus $2,000,000 of so-called "unearned" profits paid by me to investors before bankruptcy, and never recovered, the staggering figure will more than puzzle you when you compare it with the liabilities of about $4,000,000. Amazing, but true. If you desire certified copies of auditors...