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Kaspar Hauser. 
shouldered, with a black beard. He wore a cloak of blue cloth, 
with two or three capes, and a round black hat. 
Here were seven witnesses, all evidently describing the same 
person, and at the same time agreeing remarkably with the account 
given by Kaspar Hauser. The description as to size, complexion, 
hair, and beard answers to the characteristics of Major Hennen. 
hofer, and the identification is made more certain by the fact that 
the stranger, like Hennenhofer, was disfigured by the smallpox. 
Hennenhofer was not personally known in Ansbach ; but Lord 
Stanhope was, and he was reported to have been seen in the 
vicinity on the day of the murder. The two were known to have 
left Karlsruhe together about a fortnight before, and Hennenhofer 
was still away from home at the date of the Ansbach tragedy, 
although he took care to make his appearance the next evening 
at the coffee-house of the village near his castle. 
The circumstantial evidence is all the more valuable because 
at the time of the assassination neither Lord Stanhope nor Hennen- 
hofer was suspected of being concerned in the plot against Kaspar 
Hauser’s life. 
The evidence goes to prove that Hennenhofer himself gave the 
fatal blow, although doubtless other agents were on the ground to 
protect his flight after the deed was done. It will be remembered 
that soon after the attempted assassination in Nuremberg, Lord 
Stanhope appeared upon the scene and was visited by two men, 
one of whom answered to the description of the stranger seen in 
Ansbach on the day of the murder. Kaspar Hauser could not 
describe the man who attacked him in Nuremberg, because the 
face was veiled or masked. On that occasion also two men were 
seen leaving Daumer’s house, and two men were with Stanhope 
at his hotel. 
The evidence given by the workman, Leich, in Ansbach, as to 
the manner of the stranger towards Kaspar Hauser, when they 
were walking together, is very significant. 
According to the strict rules of German etiquette, Kaspar, 
Hauser, unless of higher rank than his companion. should have