Rumours arose that he was of princely parentage, possibly of Baden origin, but there were also allegations that he was an impostor.

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Hausers claims, and his subsequent death by stabbing, sparked much debate and controversy.

Theories propounded at the time identified him as the grand ducal House of Baden, hidden away because of royal intrigue.

These opinions may or may not have been documented by later investigations.

Other theories proposed that Hauser had been a fraud.

The anonymous author said that the boy was given into his custody as an infant on 7 October 1812 and that he instructed him in reading, writing and the Christian religion, but never let him take a single step out of my house.

The letter stated that the boy would now like to be a cavalryman as his father was and invited the captain either to take him in or to hang him.

It stated that his name was Kaspar, that he was born on 30 April 1812 and that his father, a cavalryman of the 6th regiment, was dead.

In fact this letter was found to have been written by the same hand as the other one (whose line he writes my handwriting exactly as I do led later analysts to assume that Kaspar himself wrote both of them).

He was taken to a police station, where he would write a name: Kaspar Hauser.

He showed that he was familiar with money, could say some prayers and read a little, but he answered few questions and his vocabulary appeared to be rather limited.

Because he provided no account of himself, he was imprisoned as a vagabond.

He spent the following two months in Luginsland Tower in Nuremberg Castle in the care of a jailer named Andreas Hiltel.

Despite what many later accounts would say, he was in good physical condition and could walk well; for example, he climbed over 90 steps to his room.

He was of a healthy facial complexion 5 and approximately 16 years old, but appeared to be intellectually impaired.

Mayor Binder, however, claimed that the boy had an excellent memory and was learning quickly.

During the course of many conversations with Mayor Binder, Hauser told a different version of his past life, which he later wrote down in more detail.

According to the story, Kaspar, had as long as he could remember spent his life in solitary confinement in a darkened cell.

He gave the cells dimensions as approcimately two metres long, one metre wide and one and a half high, with only a straw bed to sleep on and, for toys, two horses and a dog carved out of wood.

At times, the water would taste bitter and drinking it would cause him to sleep more deeply than usual.

On such occasions, upon awakening, his straw had been changed and his hair and nails cut.

Hauser claimed that the first human being he had ever met was a man who visited him not long before his release.

This man, Hauser said, taught him to write his own name by leading his hand.

After learning to stand and walk, Kaspar was brought to Nuremberg.

The stranger allegedly taught him to say the phrase I want to be a cavalryman, as my father was (in Old Bavarian dialect ), but Hauser claimed that he did not understand what the words meant.

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