As to Person: My name is Friedrich Horn. I am 28 years old; Protestant.
As to Case: On the 6th August this year I was in charge of the
baggage of the 2nd Battalion of my regiment. When I arrived in the
neighbourhood of Poulseur I sent forward three men of the cyclist
company of the 10th Jäger Battalion, who had joined us as stragglers,
as a cyclist patrol, towards the village ahead, in order to see if
the battalion was already there. However, one man of the patrol soon
returned with the news that he had lost both the others; they had
apparently fallen, as the patrol had been fired at from houses in
Poulseur. When I reached Poulseur with the baggage, I and my men also
came under fire. I placed the two foremost waggons across the road for
defence, and led my men forward. We also made preparations in a house
for our own defence. Then things became quiet. After a short interval
the firing broke out again, so that we were compelled also on our
side to fire into the houses. The sound of the assailants' shots was
altogether different from that from our rifles. There were no enemy
troops in the place; it could therefore be only civilians who had
fired. Several cavalry patrols also declared that they had been fired
at by civilians.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: HORN.
The witness was sworn.