In the course of the night I was requested by a Grenadier officer to take a wounded civilian from a house in danger of fire into a safe place. The man had a bullet wound in the upper thigh; he belonged to the better class. He told the Grenadier officers that he had been shot by Belgian francs-tireurs because he would not grant them a hiding-place in his house. He had been bandaged by our people, and was now carried into the house to the women.
The next morning, after crossing the Meuse, we rode along the left bank in order to gain the road to Onhaye. The bank lying opposite, as well as the houses of Dinant, seemed deserted. Only in the doorway of some hotel stood a civilian who aimed a rifle at us and fired, without making a hit. When we replied with revolver shots he disappeared.
Present: Lieutenant of Reserve KLEBERGER, as Officer of the Court. Sergeant RICHTER, as Clerk of the Military Court.
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.
Signed: KLEBERGER, Lieutenant of Reserve and Officer of the Court. Signed: Sergeant RICHTER, as Clerk of the Court.
Present: Lieutenant of Reserve KLEBERGER, as Officer of the Court. Sergeant RICHTER, as Clerk of the Court.
Summoned as witness there appeared Acting-Sergeant-Major Bartsch, who, after the importance of the oath had been pointed out to him, made the following statement: