The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-09


stand that the child was the offspring Of a
LADY OF the court and a high officer.
The heir 20 the crown Of Baden remained
in Falkenhaus three years. IN July. ISIS, L
was ordered by the countess 70 remove the
child and bring him TO Hochsal. near Lau-
fenburg. where the pastor. Father Dietz.
would take him in charge. The change OF
locality was decided upon because Grand
Duke Charies's suspicious had been aroused
by a mysterious illness that befell him in
Nienna-an attempt upon his life by Count
ess Hochberg.
SECOND CHILD DIES.
Meanwhile another prince was born to
the Duchess Stephanle. He saw the light
on April 30, 1916. and died May s. 1917. but
I have had nothing to do with this. The
baby's removal was intrusted BIZ Prince
Louis and the Countess Hochberg TO the
Baron Won Ende. grand ducal chamber
lain. and. like myself. an agent of Prince
Louis. On May II. 1917, Chamberlain Won
Ende succeeded in persuading the little
ones nurse that he should be weighed in a
pair Of new-fangled scales, which he (Ende)
furnished. And while everybody in the
room was watching the scales. Ende poured
q poisonous lotion into the princes food. A
few hours later the child was taken with
cramps anu LIDuSu the BIdIQ QNCUcsS ,
physician expressly stated that he would
not be responsible for a catastrophe IL
Prince Louis's physician was permitted to
come near his patient, that functionary
was at once sent for by Won Ende. The
baby died within the next twenty-four
hours. from laborious teething. accom-
panied by high fever and Commissions" as
the official gazette put it.
Twenty davg later MareraVa Frederick
the last obstacle IN the path Of the Hoch-
bergs, was removed. He died suddenly,
after two days illness, and Prince Louis's
ever oblging physician closed his eyes.
When he heard of this new death In his
family. the grand duke became very much
alarmed, and on May 30 issued a Cabinet
order banishing my master and the men,
bers OF his court, Including myself. 70 Sa-
lem. near the Swiss frontier. This feudal
seat is only a few miles distant from
HOchsal, where the young prince was kept.
Our Punishment was not OF long duration,
for on Dec. s. in the following year. the
grand duke was gathered to his fathers
after three years of intense suffering, and
my master, Prince Louis. donned the pur-
pie. The grand duke fell victim to the slow
poison administered TO him in Vienna.
DISCOVERY OF CAsPAR.
Up TO the latter part Of 1920 the new
grand duke, former Prince Louis, was left
under the impression that. in conformity
with the original arrangement, his broth
er's son had been killed after his removal
from the Carlsruhe schloss. That this por-
ton CT the conspiracy was not carried out,
was due to a desire on the part of the
Countess Hochberg to use the child. If nee
essary. as a means for compelling Louis to
keep HIS promise not 10 marry.
If, at any time, Louis attempted to break
his word and endanger the Hochbergs'
prospects for succession, the countess
would have produced the living witness to
unheard-of infamy.
The above gives the key to the Caspar
Hauser mystery as far as the lads impris-
onment, the subsequent attempt on his
lie and his final taking off are concerned.
All histories of Caspar Hauser begin
with the strange foundling's appearance
an the tallow market of Nuremberg. Ba-
varia. on May &c. 1923. 1t is alleged that he
was there accidentally discovered by a
citizen OF the town. 9 shoemaker. who pre-
ARded to be much a~stounded at the youths
QUEER appearance, his inability TO either
talk OF use his hands and feet.
The newly-discovered evidence goes to
show that the Nuremberger was paid for
the part he played. Countess Hochberg
had been dead several years. the question
of succession by her offspring had not only
been definitely settled by the parties. i'm
mediately interested, but agreements to
that effect had been ratified by the powers
OF Europe. There was. then. no good rea-
son for keeping the lad longer in his sub
terranean asylum at Hoohsal. The grand
duke. who, by this time. had been fully &C
quainted with the fact Of the princes ex-
istence, ordered me to remove the boy
from Baden territory. and lose him
somewhere IN one OF the neighboring states.
I selected Nuremberg because I had a
trusted agent 1.-THE shoemaker already men
tioned) in that town, and because it's gar
rison was looking for recruits.
TRIED TO SMUGGLE HIM INTO ARMY.
Our plan was to pass or Caspar as a
"sCldier child and thus smuggle him into
che army, where he would be lost sight Of.
TIC this end we taught him to write his
given name. and placed a letter. addressed
TO the commander OF the garrison and pur-
porting to give an outline OF the found
ung's history IN the boys hands. The fact
that he had not the use OF his legs and feet
was a drawback. and could not be rene
died in a hurry. During the last week OF
his Imprisonment his keeper had instructed
Caspar in walking and also in pronouncing
a few words. such as IT want TO be a
horseman like my father" On the journey
from Hochsal to Nuremberg we kept up
this practice Of speech and locomotion, but
90 little purpose. as subsequent events
proved. All the stories printed about Cas-
par's debut in Nuremberg mention his
Rwkwardness.
The letter to the military commander,
which 1 trust into Caspar's hands upon
taking leave OF him, announced that the
writer. a peasant. had received the boy
An October. 1872. and had brought him UP
according to directions contained in a Lat
IN note from the baby's. mother. The note
was inclosed and read as follows:
"The child hereby intrusted to yeu has
been regularly baptized. Bring him up in
the Lutheran faith. His father was q sol
der in the Light Horse. When ne is seven
teen years old, send him to Nuremberg,
where the Sixth Regiment Of Light Horse
Is garrisoned. 10 which his father belonged.
His father is dead and l am a poor girl
unable to support him. The child was born
In April. lSl2."
Tn letters were written BY Father Dietz,
OF Hochsal. who. unfortunately. used the