As to Case: I was sent with two comrades into the house to see if it was vacant, so that it could be turned into a hospital. We were shot at in the garden behind. When we went in the direction of the shots we found under a bush a twelve-year-old boy with a revolver in his hand. One of my comrades was fatally wounded by the shots, the other slightly. The lad was shot on the spot by one of the comrades who had also come up. We knew by photographs in the house that he was the son of the occupier of the house.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: Hund.
The witness was thereupon sworn.
Signed: Schweinitz. Signed: Lips.
C. App. 63.
There appeared Private Trenkler, 12th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 178, who stated:
As to Person: My name is Max Julius Trenkler; I was born on December 31st, 1891, at Markersdorf; Protestant; at the time on the active list, 12th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 178.
As to Case: I have seen civilians firing with (small) shot, and, in a like manner, children have fired on our soldiers in the rear of the convent.
Signed: Max Trenkler.
Signed: Ryssel, Lieutenant and Officer of the Court.
Signed: Schultz, Acting-Sergeant-Major and Clerk of the Court.