The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-03-09
A MYSTERIOUS CRIME.

n MI ISEEkSAUD9 SktEME.
On the 2Gth of May, 1928, as the
mild afternoon sun shown upon the
brown old city of Nuremberg in Ba.
varia, throwing many a narrow, tall,
gable fronted street into shadow, gold.
ening the quaint roofs and chimney
stacks where the. pigeons build their
nests, as the starks in Amsterdam
and brooding with genial warmth on
the fresh green foliage ofthe'platz or
sqnares-two shoemakers' workmen
who stood smoking at the corner Of
the Unschlett Flatz Glanced tonotice
for the streets, Of the old town, which
is so famous for the manufactory of
toys and beer, were almost deserted,
it being then dinner hour, a boy poor
ly-dressed approaching with the
vague and anxious look Of stranger.
On coming up to them he inquired.
"Where was Newgate.street?"
One of the men thought the ladwaq
a workman out of employment, The
other that he was a stable-boy. AS
one of them was accompanying him
in the direction he required, the lad
took a letter out Of his pocket, saying:
Direct where this belongs
whence come you?" inquired his
guide.
From Ratisbon."
ooh, indeed! What do the people
think of the war in your town2p
The boy did not understand him
had never heard of war-did not, evi-
dently, know what the man meant by
his question. His accent was that
ola Bavarian-peasant, and he.appear-
ed to know only a few sentences, like
a parrot, and to be as ignorant as one.
The letter he bore was directed to
q captain of cavalry regiment stu.
toned at Nuremberg. When the ser.
want of the latter, who was then from
home, asked the lad what he wanted,
he repeated several times the words:
"To be a rider like my father" He
appeared so weary as 10 be hardly
ableato stand. Bread, meat and a
glass Of beer were brought to him; the
first he devoured ravenously, but
spat out the meat and beer with dis
gust; so they gave him water, which
he drank with intense relish.
The servant present elected from
the forlorn boy that he had been com.
PEELED to travel day and night-for
how long was not clear. He seemed
TO dislike the crowd and the scene
which oppressed him; had the air Of
one as bewildered as though he had
dropped from the moon. To test
whether he could write, a pencil was
placed in his hand. "Write your
name"
He understood this, and wrote
"KAspER HAusER."
On being brought to the stable he
tLoro nn,+n1 h;r, o,,1 IL
,grh p"Yvn .osa n.'" "ns' niu lhereuy
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into c"v,Irv ra ag;mant ' and oo 'vUeiFeu @ y ;,
idently The comnosit;nn of some 10 i Do.
signing nerson, When the conto;n
returned he sent the how IN tba NM
lice.oGice, Here he was eya,n;reJ p
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not saw aWhy9" uRoca,oo Jon't r1t
know s The ;nsnoctor From, sh"t ",'t hs
elected thnmcht be had bean hrnnrbt @ m
mn by moor foIk in so,Ne wood nr
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idiot He saemod about sova"to a" toon '
was fonr fect nina ;ncb.s h;gh
we'll fed weIi.mnda brnoJ ] shnnIJ' IA
ercd b;s f"e i;1b, y" hra,,n r''1H h.ir
clustered in small 1 cnrI, about
his focc Dos,;to III. stnn;diin bo
had sometbing b;gb ihroa A. :, Pnrt I him ~
His feet and Iands were sw"I, md
very dolicntn nnito n,I;Go Ill ] lh"sa Nf - - =
yonng neasani @ accrstonnad ',,YIC ~ ro;I 4 . !"