Editing Kaspar Hauser (section)

==== Cut wound ====
On 17 October 1829, Hauser was found in the cellar of Daumer's house bleeding from a wound to his forehead. He claimed that while sitting in the [[outhouse]], a hooded man attacked him, saying: "You still have to die before you leave the city of Nuremberg." Hauser said he recognised the speaker as the man who had brought him to Nuremberg in 1828. As was obvious from his blood trail, Hauser at first fled into the house to the first floor, then went downstairs and climbed through a trap door into the cellar. 

Alarmed officials called for a police escort and transferred Hauser to the care of Johann Biberbach, a municipal authority. The alleged attack  fueled rumours about Hauser's possible ancestry from Hungary, England or the [[House of Baden]]. Skeptics believed that Hauser had deliberately cut himself with a razor, then left it in his room on the first floor before hiding in the cellar.<ref>Fritz Trautz: ''Zum Problem der Persönlichkeitsdeutung: Anläßlich das Kaspar-Hauser-Buches von Jean Mistler'', in: Francia 2, 1974, pp.&nbsp;715–731, here pp.&nbsp;717–718</ref> Hauser had recently quarrelled with Daumer, who had accused him of lying. Hauser might have staged the attack to gain sympathy and avoid further reprimand from Daumer.<ref>Ivo Striedinger 1927, p.&nbsp;201 and p.&nbsp;206</ref>