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.