Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1893-02-25
A FORGOTTEN SENSATION.
The Strange Career and Tragicai Death
of Knsper Hauser.

of Kasper Hauser.
Kasper Hauser made his appear
ance in Nuremberg May 26, 1929.
He was found alone i'll the street u1l-
able to speak intelligibly or to walk
uprightly, being apparently either
foolish Or insane.
After inspection by the police lie
was detained as a warrant. and by
degrees the sympathy Of the w1;,,,.
town was enlisted in his behalf, l.s
condition being such rs to coaly.llc,,
his guardians that he was the victim
OF a deep laid and cruel plot TIE
boys intellect developed rapidly I'M
der the kind care Of his new friends,
and before long he was able to give
some account Of his previous exist
ence, which had been passed i'll
dark cell ard in solitude until at last
his keeper took him out and carried
him to Nuremberg.
Many theories We're propounded,
but none Of them fitted the case, until,
little by little, suspicion WAS Ear-
rowcd down to the royal house e
Baden, W herein a singular con iuuc-
ton of circumstances had resulted i'll
the extinction Of the regular line and
the accession Of the offspring by
1norganatic marriage Of previous
ruler
In the meantime KasDar Hauser
was being carefully nrrtured and ed
ucated in the family of an estilnable
teacher Of Nuremberg, the whole
community vying with each other i'll
kind attention to the city's adopted
son.
While in that apparently safe re-
treat his life was attempted by an
unknown assassin. who succeeded in
wounding but not in killing the lnys-
terious waif After that event the
boy was constantly guarded by two
policemen, it being evident that for
some reason OF other his existence
was a continual menace to powerful
and unsc1~upulous enemies. IN 1891.
three years after Kaspar Hauscrs ar
rival, an English nobleman, Lord
Stanhope, visited Nuremberg, cult
waited the youths acquaintance and
finally offered to adopt the founding
and take him home = England.
This chance was considered too
fortunate to be rejected, and accord
ingly Kaspar Hauser was transferred
with due formality to Lord Stan
hopes protection. Instead Of being
taken to England, however, he was
placed in teachers family in Aus
bach, where Lord Stanhope left HIM
and soon afterward began to preju-
dice his friends against him as a
swindler and impostor His pecu-
MARY resources We're cut off, he was
treated unhindly by his appointed
guardians, and finally he was stabbed
and mortally wounded in the park,
whittier he had been decoyed by
stranger, who escaped after dealing
the fatal blow.
Kasper Iialsers death gave new
impetus to the efforts for the discov-
cry Of his real identity, and the grad
ual development Of facts concerning
him from that time to this has CON
stantly added strength to the early
that he was the son of
Grand Duke Karl and Grand Duchess
of Baden, put out Of the
way in order to secure TIC throne TO
the stepbi,ot}cr Of tie grand! duke
by bis fathers n1yG"ana,i@ ,narl ;asce
with Co7lll tess HocAbor Ii..5 woman
and 1iargrave Ludwig, brother aud
Of Grand Duke Karl were
the instigators OF the plot; Major
Hennenhofer, confidential agent cf
the pair, carried out their orders and
Lord Stanhope was a paid confeder-
ate whose work it was to secure the
person Of Kasper Hauser and place
him where ilis enemies could get at
him. Fields Washington.