livan's being in the alley. Mr. Hynes said that if he was
beyond the shed he was of necessity in the alley. A short dispute
followed, in which some testimony was read, which was finally won
by Mr. Hynes, who then continued:

"There is no more point about his being on one side of the shed
than on the other; the point lies in the value of the alibi. They
put young Knight on the stand and there is nothing that better
illustrates the value of an alibi than his testimony. They put on
Menahan and they both swore that the two Hylands came there on
Sunday afternoon about 5 o'clock. Knight swears that O'Sullivan was
in the house from a point of time between 4 and 5 o'clock on the
afternoon of Sunday, May 5, and that when the Hylands came in he
shook hands with them, and he was not out of the house from that
time until he went out at 10 o'clock that night, when it is
conceded that O'Sullivan was down at Mrs. Conklin's at that time,
and did not get home until half-past 7 or 8. And yet they could put
Knight on the stand--honestly swearing, because there was no proof
that he was swearing falsely--honestly swearing and insisting,
under Judge Longenecker's cross-examination, that O'Sullivan was
not out of the house from 4 or 5 o'clock until 10 o'clock that
Sunday night. But everybody knows he was out. He was with Detective
Murray down at Mrs. Conklin's. Everybody concedes that he did not
get home until half-past 7 or 8 o'clock.

WORTHLESSNESS OF THE ALIBI.

"Now, there is the value of an alibi. Knight says that the two
Hylands got there between 4 and 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, and
were in the house and did not leave until about 10 o'clock. The
tall Hyland said nothing about their leaving O'Sullivan's house in
the afternoon. Recess came, and I wondered where the memories were
put together, and the fact was recalled that it had already
appeared in the evidence that O'Sullivan was down at the Conklin's
house at those hours. When the Smaller Hyland went on the stand in
the afternoon he said they went there between 4 and 5 o'clock. He
said O'Sullivan was not at home and they went off to a ball game
and did not return until about 7:30 in the evening. Others of
O'Sullivan's household testified to the same state of facts. Knight
swears that the Hylands never