The hermit of Turkey Hollow : $b The story of an alibi, being an exploit of Ephraim Tutt, attorney & counselor at law

Train, Arthur Cheney · 1945

“O my grandfather’s clock was too high for the shelf, So it stood ninety years on the floor. It was taller by half than the old man himself, Though it weighed not a pennyweight more. It was bought on the morn of the day he was born, And was always his treasure and pride, But it--stopped--short--never to go again---- When--the old--man--died.” “Alibi (al’-i-bi) n. 1. In law, a plea of having been elsewhere at the time an offense is alleged to have been committed. Hence.--a. The fact or state of having been elsewhere at the time specified; as, “he attempted to prove an alibi.”--Cent. Dict.…

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