The witness was thereupon sworn.
Signed: Von Loeben, Lieutenant and Officer of the Court.
Signed: Baier, Non-commissioned Officer
and Clerk of the Military Court.
C. App. 81.
Present:
Lieutenant of Reserve Kleberger, as Officer of the Court.
Sergeant Richter, as Military Clerk of the Court.
Orainville, March 17th, 1915.
Summoned as witness there appeared Non-commissioned Officer of Reserve Teubner, who, after the importance of the oath had been pointed out to him, made the following statement:
As to Person: My name is Georg Teubner. I am 26 years old; Catholic; by trade a locksmith at Schirgiswalde, now non-commissioned officer of Reserve, Machine-Gun Company, Infantry Regiment No. 103.
As to Case: In the night, after we had crossed the Meuse, two platoons of the Machine-Gun Company lay by the railway; an infantry guard lay opposite. In the house where the guard lay were already some civilians. In the early morning a Belgian woman came to us and gave us to understand by motions of the hands—we could not understand French—that somewhere a house was on fire, and that we were to help. We saw that something must be particularly amiss there, and some of the men followed the woman with tools (hatchets, etc.). I was not able to go at once myself. When, later, I was on my way to the burning house I met the men with the rescued civilians who had stayed in the cellars and had been buried by the débris. They were men, women, and children—among them a priest. The people were taken to the guard, and there examined; later they were again released.
In the last house of a village behind Dinant we found a large quantity of ammunition (shot and spear-like missiles), which were evidently placed there for use. In the gable-roof were openings similar to loopholes.
On the march farther I saw a civilian who had been shot lying by the corner of a house; he had a gun still in his hand—it was a double-barrelled sporting-gun.