Norwich bulletin., 1922-02-17
FAMOUS TRIALS
THE SOLAR CASE


 On the first Of August ITS a 2rse- man was Graveling. along tie lead to Feranne, rance. He saw lying il the roadway a bundle, of what seemed U be half consumed. rags. They turned out 10 be a boy about II yea.s cd half starved and utte-ing inarticu.ate cries. He was found to be deaf and dumb, He WIS first aIopted by a wo- man. later placed in anasylun. and afterward taken ia hand by the Ahbe de TEpee who taught the mute the deaf and dumb Tnot.on Ia guage.
 Tie boy told Q story Of remamberiag having lived with his father and mo- the and $ ster in great house with spacious ga 6ens- Also Int he used to ride in carr age and on horseback; h-s father was tai and his face 4caI- rel by wounds received ia battle at CT his ia her had dieds Id vixen his no her, sister and himself were in u-ourn-ng, q man took him on horse back to the wood and left him the-e, Whe- c h. h2d wande&ed for one days without food until oalld by the horse man.
 Tie story created much interest and c, citement in Fra zee 8 at once co lectures were made as. to y-hat pob.e tamil the boy bel1nced< 4 lay hear Il autumn of 1T75 bcy. who was deaf and dumb and was the only son of Count Solar, had been sent from his hone il Touiorsa by Ii mother to Gagne es de RiGorre, under the care Of 8 young lawyer named CazeauX. Later the lawyer returned, but with out the boy who was said to have d;e7 in January. 1774. His father was deceased previously to the bov and a year later the mother died. Very like " this boy was Joseph The mother not wanting the burden of an imper- feet child, had charged Cazeaux to put him away.
 The boy was taken to Clernaont. where the Countess Solar had passed the first four years with her son. AL though the boy was now r, sevey al of the residents. perceived a slight re- . semblence of the boy to the son oi the Countess. Even some of the rela- tives were struck with the resemblance and the case seemed st. ong for the boy Joseph. as he had been. named by the Abbe. But one. thing. was in the way Of establishing Joseph as tht Count. The rresent Countess, wht would be Josephs sister. failed to rec ogn.ze the boy, nor did the boy him. self know her to be his sister.
 . The Abbe and the Due de Penthievrt Prince Of the blood started a tria . against the lawyer Cazeaux, the -onIy surviving member of the crime Tn, /, court ordered the arrest Of Cazeau, : and the prosecution as the abductc and exposer Of Joseph.
 At noon the officers Of justice foun, the lawyer in Toulouse, and with mob clanloring at the.r heels, he wa . SrlTn Tbe } Vile, into 3 miserable dungeon with n out light, which was called La Miser
 corde. At the trial he had for his de
 fence 2 brilliant, young lawyer name . Tronson de Coudsay, who te!d In elo e ouent terms his i'll treatment on tn s cort in which the prisoners were trans ( forred from. Toulouse to Paris. For l
 days he was chained to the cart wh;!
 travelling. while stopping at inn r. chained to the table and chained [ z the bed while sleeping. h Paris .h was thrown into the vaults of th
 Grand Chatelet, Thence he wa
 tran sferred to still lower dungeon
 without light or air, and kep. av4 $ ! days without examination. For $ 3f dAys-and the law says that eve. ,e prisner shall be examined within e1
 cry 24 hours-he was left in tiarkne:
 and solitude to brood ovsr the crue :. t;es which he had 1nnocentiy slsfe, ' It was subsequently proved that U .s day that Cszeaug left Toulous vii at the young Solar was the 4th Of ss,
 tember while Joseph had been four
 exactly one month earlier, in ,Apgu as st the sanae year. Also By $ host. ut witnesses it was proved that the Coul + Solar was at Bagneres when Jossr
 was at Biceta with the Abbe5 So. ther,
 fore. they could net be one and u = same. Cazeaux was immediately aa or quilted.
 re Of Joseph t was .l1ber Sound th 10 he was not altogether deaf. and tearl of ing of the purpose Of the clairnan
 to get for him q title he had listen'
 to the story of the Solar family wht -7- it was thought he could not hear, al od so told many things that seemed a be true and which 1t was .sop3ossd us had refren bered. There is no dou ch that he did come of a good family. he was well-bred and polished It