5. Madame Ermine Blanchart, Rue de l'Hôtel de Ville, will state personal grievances, but knows nothing of the events.
6. Ernest Thys, Rue Brun, merchant, hid himself for five days in his cellar.
7. Dr. Isidor Loroy, Rue de l'Industrie, only knows that the Mayor, Camus, who was a doctor in private life, was shot in the Rue du Pont on August 20, after having spent the night as a hostage, together with the priest, in the town hall. He was released towards the morning. Loroy only knows of the events by report.
8. Pane Tillmann, Rue Bran, chemist, had been wounded since August 21, and can give no evidence.
9. Louis Cartiaux, Place du Chapitre, priest, was arrested on August 19, at 9 o'clock in the evening, and taken to the town hall. Here he met the Mayor, Camus, who had already been taken as hostage. Cartiaux was, however, released during the night. About the alleged events he could only state that a detachment of troops had already made an inquiry in September, and that three suspected persons had been arrested, who were, however, not inhabitants of Andenne. He did not know what had happened to these three people. He refers the matter of the boy who was supposed to have been shot because he carried a cartridge on his person, to George Belin, schoolmaster, Rue Bertrand. The latter had told him that a boy was going to be shot because he wore some lead as a charm that had been given him by his brother.
10. Achilles Rambeaux, Rue Bertrand, assistant to a notary, has nothing to report, as he had kept in hiding in his cellar.
11. G. Belin, the schoolmaster referred to in No. 9, was heard at Namur on the morning of January 6. He was asked if he was prepared to swear to his alleged statement concerning the shooting of a boy. He denied ever having made such a statement in the most vigorous terms. Pressure being brought to bear, he admits further that in Andenne the opinion is held that a Belgian soldier of the 8th Line Infantry Regiment stayed behind, put on civilian clothes, and actually fired on the German troops. This soldier was universally known to the townsfolk by the nickname of "Le Petit Roux," and was Flemish. Another Flemish soldier, also in mufti, had been in his company. Both had deserted from their detachments.
Furthermore all the above-named persons declared unanimously that another doctor (not Mayor Camus), aged 64 years, had not been shot. Those rumours were also false which gave out that seven members of one family had been killed by German bullets; this matter concerned two families and, moreover, two brothers of the name of Savin.
That a number of people had been brought out from the cellars, threatened with death, and placed in front of the machine-guns, in case of firing from the nearest barricades, could be proved from no side. It was universally admitted, however, that rumours went round the town, including those that gave out that inhabitants had been killed with blows from an axe.
In Andenne itself 25 houses were destroyed, 12 in the suburb Peau d'Eau, together therefore 37, while Andenne contained 1900 houses. Not a single factory was destroyed or burnt. Naturally, as is unavoidable in street-fighting, many houses were damaged by gun-shots, but not so severely as to cause the owners any considerable losses. It is true that a large number of window-panes were shattered when the cannon fired from the market-place.