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Kaspar Hauser.
son of Countess Hochberg, whose zeal in the matter would seem
to imply a knowledge on his part of his mother’s crime.
Demeter was the most insignificant Dean of the Freiburg
Chapter, and Vicari, the most prominent one of them all, was
three times unanimously elected for the office of Archbishop;
but the manceuvres of Margrave Ludwig's party prevailed, and
Vicar’s name was withdrawn, under the pretence that he was
obnoxious to the Pope and the Austrian Government.
Engesser, pastor of Mundelfingen, was made Ecclesiastical
Councillor and Director of the Ecclesiastical Department of the
State, Commander of the Order of the Zihringen Lion and Privy
Councillor. When pensioned, at his own desire, in 1332, he was
allowed to retain the pastorate of Mundelfingen, one of the best
in the whole country.
Eschbach, pastor of Beuggen, became city Priest and Dean in
Triberg, Ecclesiastical Councillor, Pastor of Hochsal, Knight and
Commander of the Order of the Zihringen Lion. Pastor Dietz
did not receive any other emolument than the pastorate of
Hochsal. The little Prince was removed from his charge in 1317,
and very soon afterwards he died suddenly, probably from poison.
It was not alone his betrayal of the secret to his fellow priests
that determined the removal of the Prince; there was also danger
from another source. In November, 1816, a notice appeared in
a Paris newspaper, stating that a fisherman of Groskemps had
recently found in the Rhine a bottle containing a paper upon
which was written in Latin the following message :
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“ Cuicungue, qui hanc epistolam inveniet :
“ Sum captivus in carcere apud Lauffenburg juxta Rheni flumen :
meum carcer est subtervaneum, nec novit locum ille, qui nunc solio
neo politus est. Non plus possum scribere, quia sedulo et crudeliter
custoditus sum. S. HANES SPRANCIO.”
“To any person finding this letter:
“I am confined in a prison near Lauffenburg on the Rhine:
my subterranean cell is unknown to him who.at present sits