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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...
...unsavory record and reputation of Author Means, ex-convict. Not so the Vancouver Sun, which announced its feature with a sheet made up like the front page of an unspeakably yellow journal, topped by a shrieking headline: "WAS PRESIDENT HARDING MURDERED? ... Did His Shellfish Illness in Vancouver Provide 'Alibi' for Subtle Poison Plot? ... 'I HAVE NO REGRETS,' SAID MRS. HARDING, OPPOSING AUTOPSY." Of Author Means the Sun said: "He knew (as no other living person) the entire confidential story of the White House. And Gaston Means-close mouthed, silent, efficient- did not talk-until...