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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Vicar’s name was withdrawn, under the pretence that he was 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 : 
tn tee 
“ 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