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Stabbing in Ansbach
- When
- 14 December 1833
- Where
- Ansbach Court Garden
Hauser returned to Meyer's house with a deep chest wound, claiming a stranger stabbed him in the Court Garden.
On 14 December 1833, Hauser came back to Meyer's house with a deep chest wound. He claimed to have been lured to the Ansbach Court Garden, where a stranger stabbed him while handing him a purse. Inconsistencies in his account led the Ansbach court of enquiry to suspect that he had stabbed himself and then invented a tale about being attacked.
Sources
- Kaspar Hauser Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-29
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