“Nivver a bit. He got out av it wid th’ aid av an alibi, av yez know what thoat is, divil a bit do Oi.”
“Why, he must have proved that he was in another locality at the time the murder was committed.”
“Thot’s it! thot’s it! Thot’s th’ way he escaped.”
“Well, if he proved that he was all right.”
“Av he proved it? Well, he samed to prove it. Anyhow, it wur enough to get him off.”
“Of course it is pretty tough to be charged with murder, but many an innocent man has been accused of the crime.”
Larry nodded and turned the quid in his mouth.
“An’ minny a marn thot wur not innocent has got off widout bein’ poonished. It have been talked since thin thot old Joe’s alibi would not hold warther.”
“If that is true, why wasn’t it discovered in the first place?”
“It wur fixed fer him thin, an’ th’ weak point not discovered till aftherward. Even thin it wur not found by anybody thot cared to get mixed in it at all, at all; but thim thot know say it’s more thin aven old Joe tapped th’ unlucky devvil on th’ head. Oi warneted to tell yez, so ye’d know th’ koind av a coostomer ye wur d’aling wid.”