Arizona republican., 1914-07-30
The False Count Solar
 Case

On the first of August, 1773, a horseman was travelling along the road to Peranne, France. He saw lying in the roadway a bundle of what seemed to be half consumed rags. They turned out to be a boy about Il years old, half-starved and uttering inarticulate cries. He was found to be deaf and dumb. He was first adopted by a woman, later placed in an asylum, and afterwards taken in hand by the Abbe de rEpee, who taught the mute the deaf and dumb motion language.
 The boy told story of remem bering having lived with his father and mother and sister in great house with spacious gardens. Also that he used to ride in a carriage and on horseback; his father was tall and his face scared by wounds re- ueived in battle Later, his father had died, and when his mother. sis ter and himself were in mourning a man took him on horseback to the wood and left him there, where he had wandered for some days without food until found by the horseman. The story created much interest and excitement in France and at
 once conjectures were made as to
 what noble family the boy belonged
 A lady hearing the story mentioned that in the autumn of 1773 a boy who was deaf and dumb and was
 the only son of Count Solar had
 been sent from his home in Toulouse | by his mother to Bagneres de Bi- gorre under the care of a young
 lawyer, named Cazeaux. Later the lawyer returned, but without the | boy, who was said to have died in January, 1774. His father was de | ceased previous to the boy and a year later the mother died. Very likely this boy was Joseph. The
 mother not wanting the burden of
 an imperfect child, had charged Ca
 zeaux to put him away.
 The boy was taken to Clermont where the Countess Solar had passed
 the first four years with her son. Although the boy was now seven- teen, several of the residents per ceived a slight resemblance of the boy to the son of the countess. Even some of the relatives were struck with the resemblance and the case seemed strong for the boy Joseph, as
 the Count The present countess who would be Josephs sister, failed
 to recognize the boy, nor did the
 boy himself know her to be his sis ter.
 The Abbe and the Due de Pen thievre, a prince Of the blood, start CT a trial against the lawyer Ca zeauX, the only surviving member of arrest of Cazeaux and his prose- cution as the abductor and exposer
 of Joseph.
 At noon, the officers of justice found the lawyer in Toulouse, and
 with mob clamoring at their heels, he was taken and thrown into the Hotel de Vile, into a miserable dungeon without light, which was called La Misercorde. At the trial
 he had for his defense a brilliant young lawyer named Bronson de
 Coudray, who told in eloquent terms his ill treatment on the cart in which the prisoners were transferred from Toulouse to Paris. For seven
 teen days he was chained to the cart while travelling. while stopping at inns chained to the table and
 even to the bed while sleeping. In
 Paris he was thrown into the vaults
 of the Grand Chatelet Thence he
 was transferred to a still lower dun geon, without light or air, and kept i for six days without examination l For six days-and the law says that
 every prisoner shall be examined
 within every twenty-four hou-s-ht
 was left in darkness and solitude tC i brood over the cruelty which he hat 1 innocently suffered.'
 It was subsequently, proved that 1 the day that Cazeaux left Toulouse
 with the young Solar was the 4th o
 September, while Joseph had beer ] found exactly one month earlier, il