hattered, at the intersection of
the Rue Gambetta and the Rue Carnot. Germans entered the shop of M.
Breche, wine seller. Thinking, no doubt, that he was not serving them
quickly enough, they dragged him into the courtyard of Mme. Egasse,
his neighbor, where an officer accused him of having fired on the
soldiers, and ordered, in spite of his denial, that he should be shot
at once. Mme. Egasse tried to soften the murderers, but she was
brutally ordered off. From the room to which she went she heard the
reports, and through the window she saw Breche's body stretched on the
ground. When she came down she could not prevent herself from
expressing her grief. The officer then said to her: "A dead man! We
see too many to take any notice. Besides, wherever we are fired upon,
we kill and burn."

A young man named Odener, carrying a bag of rice, had been taken from
Liancourt of Creil. When he reached the Place de l'Eglise, worn out by
fatigue and the ill-treatment which he had received, he put down his
load and tried to escape. Two soldiers took aim at him, fired, and
struck him down. A certain Leboeuf, who had been his fellow-prisoner,
died at Creil a few days afterward in consequence of a wound which he
had received on the way.

Gen. von Kluck's army arrived at Crepy-en-Valois on the 2d of
September, and took four days to march through. The town was
completely sacked under the eyes of the officers. In particular the
jewelers' shops were ransacked.

Thefts of jewelry and body linen were committed in a house in which
lodged a General commanding with some twelve officers of the General
Staff. Almost all the safes in Crepy were gutted.

On the 3d of the same month, at Baron, an artist of great talent,
Prof. Alberic Magnard, fired two shots from a revolver on a troop
which was entering his property. One soldier was killed and another
wounded. The Germans, who in so many places have committed the worst
cruelties without any motive, here contented themselves with burning
the property of their aggressor. The latter committed suicide to avoid
falling into their hands. None the less the commune was sacked. M.
Robert, notary, was robbed of his jewelry, his linen, and of 1,471
bottles of wine, and forced to open his safe and allow an officer to
take 8,300 francs which were locked up there. In the evening he saw
another officer who wore on his finger nine women's rings, and whose
arms were adorned with six bracelets. Two soldiers told