I would correct it.
"I don't know," said Tony.
That would be American usage. The British, I believe, would write it this way. See for example: http://grammartips.homestead.com/inside.html
@Swift
The page you provided a link for is just wrong. It doesn't give the whole story.
The words between the quotes are a full sentence, so the punctuation goes inside.
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