WOOD SOUTH-WEST OF LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS, _February 5th, 1915_.
By order of Rifle (Fusilier) Regiment "Prinz Georg" there appeared as
witness Non-commissioned Officer Lauterbach, who, being warned to speak
the whole truth, made the following statement:
As to Person: My name is Paul Rudolf Lauterbach. I am 27 years old;
Protestant; by trade mechanician, now non-commissioned officer, 10th
Company, Rifle (Fusilier) Regiment No. 108.
As to Case: When, on our advance with the company, from the fort we
had reached the Sorinnes-Dinant road in Dinant, I distinctly saw how
a woman, standing at full height at a window, fired on the German
soldiers with a rifle. The woman was immediately shot by a German
soldier, and fell with the upper part of her body on the window-sill.
Volleys of rifle-fire were discharged from a remarkably large house on
the west bank of the Meuse which was flying the Red Cross flag.
South of the Dinant-Sorinnes road by the Meuse, at a place which I am
no longer able to fix, I saw lying there the charred body of a German
Jäger whose feet were bound together with wire.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: PAUL RUDOLF LAUTERBACH.
The witness was thereupon sworn.
Signed: LOSSOW, Lieutenant and Officer of the Court.
Signed: SCHUBERT, Clerk of the Military Court.