The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-10-03
MANNING S. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER3. 1906.

less he could get noaey it nesnt ruiz
ard exposure rs tried to borrow 1fon
Scoroeder, 5u5 be was very penuriou'
and would not lend cent.
One day Schroeder took r 'cke,
With him to the county town 20 ssl
8 heId & cattle. After this transse
tiou Schroeder had nearly 81. 0o0 II
cash in his pocket. Toe idas occurred
to Rocker to drug him and roh him
He obtained chlorsl 10 g drug store
TneJ went to ho.sl to celebrate ths
successful days business snd Rocker
cont-iTea to gut the chlo1sl in Schoe
der's whiskey.
! Schroeder vas strong man, aac
although ne bccsme q zed under the
Influence Of the drug, &c was not un
conscicus. Rocker wss tco much unde,
observation to attack him in the
town, snd SO be helped hin into the
buggy and started back to Doon. When
Jhsy were IN lonely spot as stopped
and throttlsd the baif conscious man,
VINO struggled fesr:u:ly until Recker
finally choksd him to death. Then
Rocker teok the money from SchIoe-
def's pockets.
Rocker drove back to Doom late a.
nigns, carried Soh:ceder's body into
tae barn and there hanged him in
which condition be vas found.
Mrs. Rocker kept silent soou. her
husbands confession for lolg time,
ou5 when in & lit OF dencnisc sempsr
ne attempted to murder their chile bS
throwing is down a well sic ccul:;
endure things 20 longer. She ga7s In
forIsticn to the pclice and z~a o.
sectives were sent to arrest R.oksr,
who then, like Elgens Acam, 'walk
sd between with SyVSs ugon nis wcis:.
st first It sppescsd thss tus confes-
sion could not be USED against r jck2;
a5 his trisl cn the ground that the
svideLce IT wife canpot be admit.
ed against her husband, but then just
In tn nick OF time It was d;Sc~v,.sa
that be was bigsmift, and tha.
sherefore she ~as nos legally his VIII
Hs vas tried and convictsd OF mur-
oer ia sh7 first 6egrse il 1904 ant
sentenced 70 Be banged.
Hs secured new arial on tsciI:ca
grounds snd change II Venus was
granted from L:on County 20 0 ceola
county OF which Slb.sy Is the county
sass, OF the ground OF PIT JUDGE IN the
io.msr plsce.
The nocturnal confession to the
Site sgain formed the evidence. The
jury oelioefSted fifteen hours anc
dnslly agrssd tc verdict Of murder
IN the 1rsu dsgree, which was folio Hel
cy e sentence OF life imp isunnent.
Rocker received the sentence With
shs caiious remark that it WsS bettsr
than the list oce. Hs Is now under
senteEcs, tut motion for q new trta.
viii bs August OF October 6.
1t Will BE- interesting 10 recall bow
closely the case Of Rocker resembles
the classical one Of Eugene ArSm.
The latter was an English schoo
seacaer in the eighteenth century,
sho made great AID original RESEARCH.
IS in phiology. Bsiag IN sore neen
Of money, he murdered mold man fot
oas ac-6 that be carried aad MD nj
ooGy In csve. After this ne uSeo
10 wander IN lonely pisces and talk to
airasef. O.e DAY II this mood be
CHANGED upon one Of his little boys
and 20 him he related lSst the night
before he imagined he vas commit
5irg q murder in q dreSn. Then he
described the murder vito great Wv
id1ess, which is portrayed IN poem
by rhonas Hood wMch commences:
He told how murderers walk the
earth.
Beneath the curse of Cain,
With crimson clouds before their eyes
And flames about their brain;
For blooo has left upon their souls
It's everlasting stain!
Ihs boy was so impressed with the
wonderful realism ef Elgere Aran's
narrstt7e that he repeated 1t tc
others, whose attention was thereby
directed to the crine which hsd bseG
committed, and as the poem conceud
es:
That very night. while gentle sleep
The u,chln eyelids kiss'd,
Two stern faced men set out. from
Lyon,
Through the cold and heavy mist,
And Eugene A1am wa.k'd between
With gyves upon his wrist.