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 Private Steglich, who, after the importance of the oath had been pointed out to him, made the following statement:
As to Person: My name is Willy Steglich. I am 22 years old; Protestant; by calling bricklayer in Mügeln, now private in the Machine-Gun Company, Infantry Regiment No. 103.
As to Case: With Acting-Sergeant-Major and some other men—there were also present some Marburg Jäger—I fetched the occupants out of a house in Dinant which had been wrecked by the impact of a shell, and set them at liberty. There were men, women, and children. They were then brought to a house where, at the instigation of an officer of the Marburg Jäger, they were protected and looked after by two Red Cross nurses.
In various houses in Dinant we found a quantity of small-shot ammunition lying piled up by the windows; everywhere the lowest pane was broken, evidently to allow a rifle to be pushed through the opening.
Read over, approved.
The witness was thereupon sworn.
Signed: Kleberger, Lieutenant of Reserve and Officer of the Court.
Signed: Sergeant Richter, as Clerk of the Court.
C. App. 53.