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decided upon a desperate measure, which, after much preparation, 
was successfully carried out, 
During the evening of October 15, 1812, the Countess, dis- 
guised as the ““ White Lady,” a ghost which was believed to make 
its appearance in the palace whenever a death in the royal family 
was imminent, went swiftly from her apartments through various 
corridors, almost certain to be empty at that hour, to the room 
occupied by the Crown Prince, and entered by a secret door in 
the tapestry, which had been opened for her beforehand. 
Two trusted body-servants of Ludwig, Burkard and Sauerbeck 
by name, protected the passage ; but, notwithstanding their pre- 
cautions, she was observed by a lackey, who fell to the floor with 
right, and by a watchman, who saw her disappear in the wall. 
Under her veil she carried an infant procured beforehand for 
‘he substitution, and poisoned to make sure of its speedy death. 
The only occupants of the chamber were the Prince, asleep in 
his cradle, and two nurses, asleep in their chairs, probably stupefied 
Jy someone concerned in the plot. The Countess lifted the 
child from the cradle and left in its place the illegitimate infant 
of a peasant girl, which was already in a dying condition. She 
then returned as silently as she had come, and the stolen 
Prince was handed to Sauerbeck, who hurried through the park 
‘0 a small door in the pheasantry, near the Durlach Gate in the 
Rintheim Road, where a covered carriage was waiting. Here 
Sauerbeck gave the child to Major Hennenhofer (the chief instru- 
ment in the service of Margrave Ludwig and the Countess of 
Hochberg), who drove off to a castle in the neighbourhood and 
left the infant in the care of a governess, who was told that it was 
the illegitimate offspring of a lady connected with the Court, whose 
misconduct must be kept an inviolable secret. That secluded 
castle was the hiding-place of the royal infant for nearly four 
years. 
To accomplish such an undertaking without detection, many 
persons must have been concerned in the plot and every precau- 
tion taken to avoid suspicion. The two attendants of the Prince, 
if innocent of complicity, were undoubtedly drugged ; the wet- 
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