Present:
Lieutenant of Reserve DACHSEL, as Officer of the Court.
Non-commissioned Officer of Reserve STEIGER, as Clerk of the Court.
LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS, _March 7th, 1914_.
By order there appeared as witness Rifleman Willkommen, who, after the
importance of the oath had been pointed out to him, and he had been
warned to speak the truth, made the following statement:
As to Person: My name is Paul Robert Willkommen, rifleman, 7th Company,
Rifle (Fusilier) Regiment No. 108; 22 years old; Protestant.
As to Case: On the afternoon of August 23rd, I found a completely
charred body quite close to an estate near Dinant, where we had set up
a dressing-station. On closer inspection it proved to be a Saxon Jäger
whose hands and feet had been tied up. He lay in the ditch close to the
road. We covered him with straw. That he was a Saxon Jäger I recognised
with certainty from his buttons and other articles of equipment.
On this day, before we marched through Dinant and crossed the Meuse,
my company made a halt at an estate near Dinant. The inhabitants of
the estate--several men, women, and children--fetched us water. I
and several of my comrades gave in return some cigars to the men and
sweetstuff to the children.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: PAUL ROBERT WILLKOMMEN.
The witness was thereupon sworn.
Signed: DACHSEL. Signed: STEIGER.