MILITARY COURT EXAMINATION of Captain of Reserve Adolf Pachur, Field Artillery Regiment No. 6.
Before the under-mentioned Court officer appeared as witness Captain of Reserve Adolf Pachur, Catholic, 40 years of age, unmarried. After being informed of the object of his examination and warned to speak the truth in his deposition, he made the following statement:
On August 22nd the Light Munitions Column, 1st detachment, Field Artillery Regiment No. 6, was fired upon by Francs-tireurs on its march through Tintigny. As the village had a long time since been cleared of the enemy by our infantry, and our firing line already lay some 2 to 3 kilometres beyond the village, the firing in question could have come only from francs-tireurs.
The same position occurred on the 23rd of August at St. Vincent. When the Light Munitions Column were ordered to halt in the village they were several times, with brief intervals, under hot fire from houses, gardens, bushes, and trees. It was noticed that the first shots were principally on every occasion from one and the same house, and were followed by a general fusillade. One civilian escaping from a house was shot dead by the officers and men of the column. A sergeant-major of infantry who, with a detachment, had been given the duty of clearing the village of francs-tireurs subsequently established the fact that this man was armed with a revolver.
According to the reports I received, the men of the column were questioned about their leader, _i.e._ myself, by the proprietor of a café. This person treated our soldiers with extreme friendliness, but secured no information. Shortly afterwards I saw how we were being fired at from this very house which was pointed out to me.
Signed: BARON VON STEINAEKER, Lieutenant and Court Officer.
STATEMENT and MILITARY COURT EXAMINATION of Lieutenant of Reserve Felsmann of the Light Munitions Column, 1st detachment, Field Artillery Regiment No. 6.
At Tintigny, on the evening of August 22nd, I received the order to proceed to the Artillery Munitions Column to replenish ammunition. On the way at Sainte Marie I had the horses of the ammunition waggon watered. In doing this I received help apparently of the most willing character from the occupants of the house from which the water was drawn. When the harness had been put on the horses again, the occupants of this very same house fired at the ammunition waggon and wounded one or more of the horses.