e officers. On their order, two soldiers
dragged him ten meters away and sent two bullets through his head. The
murderers made a little hollow in the ground, and flung over the
corpse a layer of earth so thin that it did not cover the victim's
feet. A few hours before, 200 meters off, six other inhabitants of
Senlis, MM. Pommier, Barbier, Aubert, Cottereau, Arthur Rigault, and
Dewert, had already been shot and buried.

The same evening M. Jeandin, a baker, who had been arrested at 3 or 4
in the afternoon without any reason, and then taken by the Forty-ninth
Pomeranian Regiment of Infantry to Villers-Saint-Frambourg, was
fastened to a stake in a field and pierced repeatedly with the point
of a bayonet.

It is unnecessary to say that the town of Senlis was pillaged. While
the enemy sacked the houses they took pleasure in exciting the worst
instincts of the populace by offering part of the booty to women in
wretched circumstances.

At Villers-Saint-Frambourg the woman X. was raped by a soldier who got
into her house. After the crime she took refuge in a neighboring
house. The precaution was a wise one, for numerous comrades of the
aggressor broke into her house and, furious at not finding the victim
they sought, smashed the windows and seized the chickens, rabbits, and
pig which they found in an outhouse.

On Sept. 3 at Creil, under the orders of a Captain who tried to force
MM. Guillot and Demonts to show him the houses of the richest
inhabitants, the Germans scattered among the houses, breaking in doors
and windows, and gave themselves up to pillage with the complicity of
their leaders, to whom they came constantly to show the jewelry which
they had stolen. Demonts and Guillot were then led into the country,
where they found about 100 inhabitants of Creil and Nogent-sur-Oise
and the neighborhood. All these persons were forced to suffer the
shame and grief of working against the defense of their country by
cutting down a field of maize which hindered the firing of the enemy
and by digging trenches intended to shelter the Germans. For seven
days the enemy kept them there without giving them food. Some women of
the neighborhood were, fortunately, able to give them a little.

Meanwhile in the town several people were put to death. M. Parent, who
was escaping, was killed in the Rue Victor Hugo by a shot by a Uhlan.
As soon as he fell, troopers hurled themselves upon him to search his
clothes. M. Alexandre had his head s