The Light Munitions Column of the 1st detachment, Field Artillery Regiment No. 6, on their advance through Tintigny on August 22nd and through St. Vincent on August 23rd, were heavily fired upon by the inhabitants of this place from the houses, and partly also from bushes and trees. At St. Vincent we shot dead a civilian who had fired at us with a revolver.
Before the under-mentioned officer of the Court appeared Lieutenant of Reserve Johannes Felsmann, Protestant, 31 years of age, married. After being informed of the object of his examination and warned to speak the truth in his deposition, he made the following statement:
I repeat the contents of the preceding statement of September 23rd, 1914, and regard it as correct in all its details.
Signed: COUNT VON STEINAEKER, Lieutenant and Court Officer.
REPORT of the 2nd Battalion, Infantry Regiment No. 157 (78th Infantry Brigade).
1. On August 22nd, at Tintigny, the heavy baggage was fired upon by civilians from a house on which the Red Cross flag was flying. The house was surrounded, and a civilian who was jumping from one of the windows was shot dead. Witnesses of this incident are Lieutenant Groeger and Non-commissioned Officer Wollny of the 7th Company of the regiment.
2. On the evening of August 22nd, in the village of Rossignol, a corporal of the 5th Company was fired at from behind by a civilian with a shot-gun, and wounded.
3. At nightfall on August 23rd, Non-commissioned Officer Wilde of the 7th Company was dispatched with a detachment to Les Bulles to fetch straw for the bivouacs. On entering the village these men were fired at by the inhabitants. Orders were thereupon given to set fire to the place, and these were partially carried out.
4. Musketeer Adolf of the 7th Company discovered at Tintigny a musketeer of Regiment No. 38 tied to a fence with his skull split open. After considerable search our men discovered in the vicinity a bloodstained axe.
Signed: GUHR, Major and Battalion Commander.
REPORT of 3rd Battalion, Infantry Regiment No. 157.
Captain Rumland, Leader of the 11th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 157, declares:
When on August 22nd, 1914, I was attached to the heavy baggage, and this was compelled to halt a little way from Tintigny, I noticed a cart on which lay the body of the reservist Franke, 6th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 38. The helmet was driven in, and in Franke's skull was a square hole, caused by the pickaxe which was lying near him. This axe was smeared with blood, and the point fitted exactly into the hole in the skull. Franke had been slain in this way. Some soldiers present in Tintigny had found Franke's dead body tied to a fence, and made a report of this.