The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-10-03
he SAVED HIM
One Brother Co1efesses to Crime
TO Save Another.
I'M TIE GUILTY ON::
Said Charles Schachsr to the JudgF
Who Was About to Sentence Scha.
cher's Brother to Prison for
Crime He Did Not
Commit

Crime He Did Not
Commit.
There Is mere ttan "hcnor ar,oD'
thieves The plain and rnvarnish
ed facts here set forth sho@ thsS Il
the bosom Of 3 thief the sepss OF jos
tice may be SO firmly implanted TIA
be is inca oatle ct seeing snotae
punished for the crime that wss o.
own.
You have seen these impulses pcr
trayed upon the stage 10 ttr.lIlos
meIodrana. You may perhaps recai
how your heart throbbed SIS the MINI
court scene progressed. You felt tha'
the hero in the prisoners ocok Fs'
innocent, though the evidence seene'
overwhelmingly against him. Yol
watched the psls sscs OF the heroine
his promised wife, scd glcrieo in tht
stssdfsstness Of her fsith IL tie NAL
she loved.
Then, at tie critical mcmant, bow
your pulses bounded when the rea
crinipsl pushed his way through the
throng befole the bar Of justice ant
said to tie Judge:
This man is innocent; I, and
alone, an guilty.
Well, such scene hss lstslV beer
enscseo in rsa. cou1:->Hother in
stance that real human life is con
stsntly coming to the support OF the
ideals Of poets and dramstisus; thai
man and women, even IL, this self
seeking and sorGid age, have gooc
impulses, and act upon them to theii
own self sacrifice.
II q dramstist should make this in
stance tie basis for stsge play pro
baby he would entitle bis ptecs
Brother Tor Brcther"-for the NAL
wrongly sccusso, imprisoned ano
brought to trisl was the brother CT
the guilty man. who wss safe becsuss
he was not even suspected OF shs
crime.
These brothers are Charles and
Abraham Schacher and twins. Abrs'
ham issunnarried. Charles, with bis
comely wife and several children,
lives in q comfortable howe IN ths
Jewish garter Of Montreal, Canada
BE was s har6working man, nuci
respected by sll his neighbors. Abrs,
ham was OF . lively disposition, ano
inclined to be convival.
In November OF last year Abraham
Schacher left Montreal and journeys.
to New York, expecting u mad dssir.
able employment thers, lie said H.
had gone nom Monsresl only a raN
days when 8 terrible blow fell upo1
CHARLES Schacfsr and bis oeVoLe,
family.
Officers O: the law from Kingston
went one evening to the Scnsche!
home, found the husband snd fathe,
in the bosom OF his family and plscee
him under arrest.
why is this?" demanded The
astonishe6 man.
You are are wanted II Kingston,
the cncers said. You are accused
OF the burglary OF McKeg's fur store
there last week. The value OF tins
furs stolen is $4,000. Hzre is th,
warrant for your arrest. CJme, NJ
hsve no time to waste"
My husband shall not so witt
YOU" said MIS-. Schschsr, stoutly
mo man in the world is more limo
cent than he is, Of any crime"
I'VE nuss do cur duty" said the
officers. Come, Scnacher, get you!
hst snd coat
mo, he shall not co." said the
wife again, clinging to her husband'k I
arm. Tell ne, when vas this burg
lazy comntateo?"
The officers named the date Of the
burglary.
"There!" said the woman in triumph:
ST told you my husband could moi
be guilty. can prove that he wss
here st home with me and our chil.
dren on thai night. He lad not beaI
to Kingston for more than week"
You will have TO tell that to the
judge" said the officers, I'VE must ot
our duty"
II will CO." said Charles Schacher.
cslmsly-and then to his wife, VINO
vas weeping On his shoulder: Why
should not go with these gentlemen:
] am innocent, bus mistakes otten
happen in this world. 1 will sool
prove my innocence, then I 1in re.
turn, and all viii be as IL was
before"
Before they took Charles Schache,
away the ,hcers carefully searched
the house. They found none OF the
stolen artieleS-they found nothing
in the slightest degree pointing tc
him SIS the thief. BUS they took nin
to Kingston and locked him up.
L. Is well known that e6cers Of the
lsw DO not ike to confess their mis-
takes. Although the law presunes
the accused ITO be innocent until be
Is proved guilty" the operation OF the
laws machinery gives that worthy
sdage,a decidedly farcieal look, even
q comic opera Interpretation. Al
though the lsw presumed Charles
Schacher to be innocent, it kept him
carefully behind hon bars and set
about systematically to fasten the
crime upon him.
There we're several acccmplices also
behind the bars, against whom there
was sufficient evidence. But they
preserved & sullen silence. It Vas
useless for Charles Schscher to appeal
to them. So the lawyers for the pro-
sscution went on serenely to wind
their tolls about Schacher, beginning
with the only solitary fact IN their
possession-thst his name was that OF
one Of the thieves.
All this time Charles Schacher Ian.
goised In jal-fron Novembes until
June 20 he was deprived Of his liberty,
snd then was removed from his CELL