The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-20
CASPER HAUSERS
SAID TO BE IDENTIFIED.

PUZZLED ALL EURoPE-THE IDIoTIC YOUTH
THE RIGHTFUL DUKE OF BADEN-A DAUGH-
TER OF THE GERMAN EMPEROR MARRIEs A
PRINCE WITH THE BAR sINIsTER-soME Ex-
TRAoRDINARY DEVELOPMENTS OF ROYAL
/ ROMANCE.
This strange and startling story is from
the New York Mercury, and will interest
| thousands of people on the two hemispheres:
The mystery of that mysterious individual,
Casper Hauser. has puzzled the entire world,
The tate of the unfortunate youth at one
time created more excitement and eager
curiosity throughout Europe than any event
of the present century. Although his true
parentage and the names OF those through
whose instrumentality he was consigned to
his bloody grave have been established al
| most beyond doubt, dread of the eonse-
queDces of displeasing so many illustrious
personages has hitherto prevented the affair
| for facts which alone could elicit the
complete truth. IN a strange manner the
mystery has been solved, and the Mer-
/ curry is the first American paper TO lay the
solution before its readers. On the evening
of the 26sh of May, 1928. a casual passenger
through the streets of Nuremberg met
youth about fifteen or sixteen years of age,
| whose singular appearance at once arrested
his attention. Although strongly Ouilt, he
seemed hardly Able TO use his liulhs while
| the dim twilight of the late summer eve. In
his hand he held letter addressed TO a well
know citizen, which he presented to every
passer by with an unmeaning stare. When
conducted to the house of the person to
| whom he appeared to be directed he was of
fered food but refused with disgust ali ex-
cept plain bread and water, and, throwing
| himself down on heap OF straw, went into
a sound sleep. The persons in whose Charge
he was left did not know what to make of
him, tor on the one hand he displayed the
mingled
| CURIOSITY AND STUPID INSENsI BILITY,
of some being to whom all is new, but who
has no perceptible sppreciative faculty, while
he could repeat certain words with dis
tinctness and in a distinct hand wrote down
the name of Casper Hauser. AS an idiot or
a clever imposter, they finally determined
to send him to prison, where a close exami-
nation showed him to be incapable of any
attempt at fraud, but on the contrary, to be
the victim himself of crime. The soles of
his feet were perfectly soft and white, prov
ing that he had never been permitted to take
exercise. 1t was clear that he had never
seen and never learned anything; he was a
complete stranger TO the cOmmoDest ties and
duties which bind mankind together, and
utterly ignorant of the nature or even exist
ence of society or morality; in short, be had
evidently vegetated in complete iso-
lation, and literally In obscurity for
he could not bear the effect of light upon his
eyes, and neither knew, at first,
the difference between night and day, nor
could he measure time. Professor Danmer
charged himself with his education. By
gentle degrees armed with the utmost
patience, he attempted TO awaken the DOR
mant faculties of this extraordinary being.
He learned with rapidity, and vague, misty
recollections of the long, dreary purgatory
in which the years of his childhood had been
spent rose before his mind. He would
often talk about his jailer, for whom, how
ever, he did not appear TO entertain any
feelings of ill-will, but rather wondered in
J his simplicity, how he could have offended
him. The professor, VINO had never entirely
. discontinued his researches as to the birth
of his unfortunate pupil, encouraged him to
track back the depths of his memory, and
hoped eventually to collect the scattered
facts he from time to time obtained into
: some tangible shape. Thus three or four
years rolled peacably along. The world,
, TIRED OF ITS NINE-DAYs' WONDER,
J had forgotten all about Casper, and he might
3 tondly hope that his enemies had done the
same thing; but il was not so. They had not
, let any of his movements escape them, and
3 probably the professors hopes had been toe
loudly expressed, for an attempt was made
/. TO assassinate the poor youth, which failed
s and resulted in obtaining for him more
9 powerful protection than that of the worthy
a scientist, that of the Earl OF Stanhope, an
q English noblemsp, who at that time was re-
I siding in Germany. On the 14th of Decen
g Der, 1888, Hauser, who had been left alone
: was enticed to a solitary grot by an unknown
t man, who plunged dagger into his heart
Z Every effort was made by the authorities &c
i, discover the assassin, and Lord St2nhope or
:. tered large sum for his arrest, bat all was
: in vain. Among those well acquainted with
n
O was not practicable for the strone
t arm OF despotism to suppress, but lit
d tie doubt will be found TO exist, tha
poor, friendless, murdered Casper Hause
| was by birth a sovereign prince. New de
velopments prove beyond a doubt that III IN
ser was the son of the Grand Duke Charles
l. of Baden, and his wife, Stephanis, conse
% quently, the legitimate heir of the throne
"a Charles, who had married Stephania, a nice
q of Napoleon the First, in 1906, was a man o
reckless character. Not long after wedding
r. he became enamored of the Baroness Geye
,r Won Geyersberg, whom be raised to tn
!. rank of Countess Won Hochberg. Thi
r. woman attempted 30 poison the gram
r duchess, and, when the latter was Delivers
= of an heir TO the crown of Baden, she cause
q the enid to be stolen. It was the unior.u
"a nate creature afterwards known under tn
"a name of Casper Hauser. The gran
n duchess was assured by the physician
ST all of whom were in the pay of the countess
q that
m HER CHILD HAD DIED.
ID She believed ituntil her husband was dea,
as when she secretly cansed the infants coffi
a TO be opened. 1t was empty. Some tin
Il. attsrward she gave birth to another son, br
ry the mother seemed to believe that her Chi
had been taken from her and another subst
tuted. This was really the case, the subst
rs tuted baby being iilegitimate son
lx-Dn fhn hah uix
)n birth about the same time. The bastard WI
ge christened Leopold, and became heir a.
n, parent of Baden. The Grand Duchess new
I'D spoke to him, even after he had becen
of Grand Duke. She lived in seclusion, an
Id died few years ago. Whether her husbar
to Charles discovered the fraud, certain it
in that she finally poisoned biz
it. whereupon her son Lsopold b