New Britain herald., 1929-08-05
ST0WAWAY UNABLE
 TO SEE THE WORLD
Unexpected Passenger on Zeppe-
 lin Locked in Tiny Room
ENDANGERED DlRlGIBLE
Jumped Onto Top of Gas Bag and Might Have Fallen Through Will Be DepOrted as soon as Pos SibIe, Officials Say.
By HERBERT s. SIEBEL Associated Press Correspondent Aboard the Zeppelin)

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 Aboard the Zeppelin)
 Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. J., Aug. , P-While all the rest of us these last few days were thor oughly enjoying the most pleasant and certainly one of the most com fortable Atlantic crossings we ever made. one passenger aboard the Graf Zeppelin must have been de- cidedly uncomfortable and disconso- late young man.
 T mean the stowaway, IS year old Albert Busch, who, with a pocket camera and one mark and 50 pfennig. started out to see the world but made the whole trip shut up in box-like room. high up in the tail i of the ship, and never saw thing.
 We were just gliding out of the hangar at Friedrichshafen last Thursday morning when people down on the ground began to yell.
 And there was Busch running along the top of the Graf-right along her backbone, which is only about six to eight inches wide. One false step and he'd have come right down through the fabric. It was dark. too. He couldn't see very well.
 He had dropped down from a rope dangling from the top of the 1 hangar. He ran along until he came to an airshaft into which he jump 1J 4 of fnlln q him a few minutes later.
 He was yanked. out and brought down, and then shut up in a room about the size. of the box they kept the gorilla in. And there he stayed for the rest of the trip.
 Busch, I learned, had arrived in Friedrichshafe the day before- on a bicycle, with his camera and one mark and 50 pfcnnig. Hes a ] baker and confectoncr. born in Dortmund, Germany, August IT, 1911.
 He had a friend with him. l was told, but at the last minute the friends nerve gave out, apparently. He couldn't make it. I don't know | how long he danglcd up there on that rope in the top of the hangar, waiting for his chance.
 They certainly did not make any hero of the young man. l don't think any of the other passengers both cred to ask his name. Many of them didn't even know he was aboard un- til we were far out over the Atlan- tic.
 Among the passengers he didn't come in for any particular Censure. We simply ignored his presence.
 Passengers Stories Differ
 Two other passengers talked about the stowaway, although the version of one of them was at variance with the story of Dr. Hugo Eckcncr, the dirigibles skipper
 "Jochim Pickard of Boston said 1 the passengers displayed considera- 1 ble resentment against the youth $ leap into the Zeppelin because through one false step the young man would have tumbled from the sirders inside the bag and fallen l through the fragile fabric of the Zeppelin.
 He climbed into the ship some- how from the top of the hangar and was caught shortly after the ship put out" said George F.. Crouesc, whole sale grocer of Syracuse, New York,
 During the trip he was fastened with straps in a freight compart- mcnt over a rear engine and was given little to eat.'
 We locked him in a room so that he could not get around and com- init further nonsense said Dr. Eek ener after describing how the youth Continued on Page Two)