Signed: Kleberger, Lieutenant of Reserve and Officer of the Court.
Signed: Richter, Sergeant, as Clerk to the Military Court.
C. App. 35.
Present:
Lieutenant of Reserve Kleberger, as Officer of the Court.
Sergeant Richter, as Clerk of the Military Court.
Orainville, March 17th, 1915.
Summoned as witness, there appeared Lieutenant Richter, who, being advised as to the significance of the oath, made the following statement:
As to Person: My name is Martin Richter. I am 31 years old; Protestant; Lieutenant of 1st Company, Infantry Regiment No. 103.
As to Case: On the advance of the 1st Battalion of 4th Infantry Regiment No. 103 on the 23rd August 1914 to the crossing-place over the Meuse at Leffe, there came a single shot from a farm. A soldier of the 1st Company of the regiment was wounded.
By order of Captain Wuttig the farm was searched. About fourteen male civilians were arrested who had with them weapons and ammunition for sporting-rifles, pistols, etc.
A thirteen to fifteen year-old lad was released on account of his age; the other thirteen persons were shot.
Read over, approved.