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Kaspar Hauser. 
137 
For there is scarcely any doubt that Stanhope was, morally, 
Kaspar Hauser’s murderer, and without his fiendish pursuit of 
the unfortunate boy, Hennenhofer might never have had an op- 
portunity to strike the fatal blow. In some respects Stanhope 
was the most despicable of all the actors in that fearful tragedy. 
Grand-Duke Ludwig was tempted by love ; Countess Hochberg 
was stimulated by maternal ambition ; Hennenhofer was driven 
on by the threatened exposure of the secret which had so long 
oppressed his thoughts; moreover he was a Catholic, and hated 
Kaspar Hauser all the more because of his public profession of 
the Protestant faith. But Lord Stanhope’s only object was money. 
He had no interest in the political intrigues of Baden, and no 
husiness with the revolting details of a family crime. 
Meantime the outside world was busy with the same questions 
which were agitating anew the citizens of Nuremberg, and suspicion 
pointed more directly than ever to the royal house of Baden as 
the depository of the fateful secret. 
Grand-Duchess Stephanie wept bitterly when she heard of 
Kaspar Hauser’s death, and many who grieved over his untimely 
end thought of her with tender sympathy as the person most 
nearly affected by the tragedy. 
As a specimen of the public feeling at this time, the Promze- 
moria of Landrichter von Péllnitz in Leutershofen may be alluded 
to. This was a literary production entitled: 
“Justification on the part of the Court of . . . . . of the mur- 
der of Kaspar Hauser.” 
The following is an extract : 
“Uncommon circumstances demand uncommon means for their 
control, and although it is criminal to pilfer five florins and one 
kreuzer, it is only bold to embezzle a million, and godlike to steal a 
crown. The so-called Kaspar Hauser, at the time of his appear- 
ance in Nuremberg, was declared by a lady of the highest rank to 
be a Prince of . . . . . (i.e, B-a-d-e-n). And such he really was. 
That Court does not hesitate to acknowledge the fact, and even 
condescends to justify the murder before the public.