Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-20

~ Dtferke Career snd Tfssieai Death
~ Hs@rer fseosef.
Ka6per Hnusar made his appear
aIIce IN Nuremberg May 70, 1928
Ho was found alone In tho street IN
obls to speak intelIigibly or TO walk
upfiGhtly being apparently either
foolish or insane.
After inspection by the police he
was detained as n ya1rant, and by
degrees the sympathy Of the whole
town wns enlisted IN his behalf, HE
condition being such as b. convince
Ais guardians that he was the victim
of deep laid and cruel plot. The
boys intellect developed rapidly un.
der the kind care Of bis now friends,
and before long ho was able ~ give
some account Of his previous exist
once, which had been passed In
dark cell and in solitude until at last
his keeper took him out and carried
him to Nuremberg.
Many theories were propounded,
butDono Of them fitted the case, until,
little by little, suspicion was mar
rowed down to the royal house Of
Baden, wherein singular conjunc
tton Of circumstances had resulted In
the extinction of the regular line and
The accession OF the offspring by
morBanntic marriage of previous
ruler.
N the meantime Kaspar Hauser
was being carefully nurtured and ed
t1cnfed Ia the family OF an estiinable
(eocher Of Nuremberg, the whole
oQmmunity vying with each otherin
Kind attention TO the city's adopted
son.
While In that apparently safe re-
troat his life was attempted by an
unknown assassin, who succeeded In
wounding but not in killing the mys
tezious waif. After that event the
boy was constantly guarded by two
policemen, II being evident that for
rome reason or other his existence
WAS continual menace TO powerful !
and unscrupulous enemies. In 1881, |
three years after Kaspar Hauser's ar |
rival, nm English nobleman, Lord
6tanhope, visited Nuremberg, cult.
waited the youths acquaintance and
finally offered to adopt the founding
and take him home TO England.
This chance was considered too
Fortunate 10 be rejected, and accord
|A&ly Kaspar Hauser was transferred
with due formaIity to Lord Stan
hopes protection. Instead Of being
leken 70 England, however, he was
placed Ia a teachers family in Aus
bnoh, whore Lord Stanhope left him
md poon afterward began to preju.
lice his friends against him us
and impostor. His pecu-
Nary resources were cut off, no was
xeAted unkindly by his appointed
guardians, and finally no was stabbed
ia mortally wounded in the park,
shifher no had been decoyed by n
|lrauRer, who escaped after dealing
ho fatal blow.
Kasper Hnuser's death gave new
impetus to the efforts for tho discov. [
nv OF his real identity, and the grad
val development Of facts concerning
i'm from that time TO this has con
tantly added strength to the early
aaggestion that he was the son OF
3rund Duke Karl and Grand Duchess
ltephanie OF Baden, put out of the
ray IN order 10 secure the throne 10 !
he stepbrother of the grand duke
y his fathers morganatic marriage
pith Countess Hochber. This woman
nd Margrave Ludwig. brother and
liccessor OF Grand Duke Karl, were
he instigators OF the plot Major !
Iennenhofer, n confidential agent os .
he pair. carried out their orders aud !,
ord 6tanhope was a paid oonfeder. '
% whose work it was 10 secure the !
prson Of Kasper Hauscr and place :
I'm where his enemies could get at !
|m- KATE Fields Washington.
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