marched to headquarters. The next day, when the victim
was asked to recognize the culprit and point him out, he had
disappeared.

On the 3d of September, at Crezancy, the soldiers made young Lesaint,
aged 18, come out of his house, and an officer killed him with a
revolver shot. One of the murderer's comrades declared later that this
murder had been committed because Lesaint was a soldier, and when a
man to whom he was speaking denied this, he added, "He was on the way
to be one." He said also that the young man had stupidly caused his
own death, because, with the intention of escaping, he had put out the
candle which was lighted in his room. Now this candle had not been put
out by the unfortunate Lesaint, but had been removed by a soldier who
wished to visit the house. In any case, the officer reluctantly
admitted that his comrade had fired too soon.

In the same locality M. Dupont, "gerant du familistere," was arrested
on the 4th of September because he had tried to protect his till
against a soldier who was in the act of ransacking it. With a
trooper's cap on his head, which they had drawn down to his chin, and
both his hands tied behind his back, he was made the butt of the
Germans, who amused themselves by forcing him to go on to a very high
slope, raining blows upon him and pricking him with bayonets every
time he fell down. He was taken on the 6th to Charly-sur-Marne with a
convoy of military prisoners, and on the 8th of September, in the
morning, his murderers in their retreat forced him to follow the
column. As he could not drag himself along in consequence of the
violence which he had suffered, the Germans struck him with redoubled
vigor and pushed him along, holding him under the arms. A kilometer
further on they killed him with a blow from a lance or bayonet through
the heart.

At Chateau-Thierry, where the German troops remained from the 2d to
the 9th of September, the pillage was carried out under the eyes of
the officers. Later on army doctors who remained in the town after the
departure of the army were included in an exchange of prisoners, and
their canteens were opened. They contained articles of clothing which
were the product of the sack of the shops.

On the 5th of September the girl ----, aged 14, met a soldier as she
was coming back from fetching some bread for her parents. She was
dragged into the shop of a shoemaker, and from there into a room where
two other Germans joined the first. She w