Caspar Haslinger

Caspar Haslinger (born June 30, 1858 in Gaißach , † July 19, 1921 in Terre Haute , Indiana ) was a Bavarian poacher . After Lexen, a district of Gaissach, it was also called Lexenkaspar .

Life

Even as a young man, Haslinger regularly poached in his home country without being able to be called by the authorities. On December 1, 1883, he poached with a friend in Carl Theodor's hunting area in Bavaria on the Tegernsee . He was caught by the hunting assistant Hansei Scheidter, who also shot him a load of shot in the chest and face. Haslinger managed to escape, but because of the scars on his face he kept hidden before he was caught by gendarmes from Lenggries and then sentenced to two years in prison.

After his release from prison, Gendarme Neuner was shot dead while on a night patrol. Haslinger was arrested as a suspect, but since nothing could be proven he was released again. Nevertheless, declared outlawed, he was forced to emigrate to America. He set out for Venice to embark there. Before that, in Innsbruck, he told an acquaintance that he would henceforth be called Caspar Hirschmann.

Despite being very homesick, Lexenkaspar built up an existence with a wife and children in Indiana before he died in 1921.

A death picture came to his old homeland on which one could read:

Christian memory
of Mr.
Caspar Hirschmann,
who, born in Gaisbach near Tölz, Upper
Bavaria, on June 30th, 1858, after a long, painful,
patiently endured suffering and receipt of
the holy. The Sacraments of the Death in Terre Haute
Indiana, North America, passed gently
in the Lord on July 19, 1921 .
May he rest in peace!

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Aberle: It was a contactor: Von poachers and hunters - Rosenheimer Verlag 1972, 2001, page 127ff
2. ↑ Gisela Schinzel-Penth : Sagas and legends about Tölzer Land and Isarwinkel - Ambro Lacus Verlag 2006, page 87
3. ↑ Gisela Schinzel-Penth : Sagas and legends about Tölzer Land and Isarwinkel - Ambro Lacus Verlag 2006, page 88