An immediate search of the Mayor's house showed that the family were not only cognizant of the hostilities, but also participated in them. Shots were fired into the street from the locked cellar, the key of which the family declared to have been lost, and it had to be forcibly opened; a stand had even been moved to the cellar window, in order to make their position easier for the marksmen (App. 1), and a musketeer was positively certain that he had noticed a shot fired from the house (App. 1). The Mayor's son alone could be held responsible for the actual deed; hidden away by his family, he was fetched out of a dark room (App. 1). But since the whole family were guilty of the Colonel's murder after having received him with such "hospitality," according to Belgian reports, both father and son were shot on the following day, August 20 (App. 2). At the town Governor's instigation, Captain Karge, officer commanding the Military Mounted Police, was lodged in the house of the Mayor's brother, and thus he too shared the same fate (Apps. 2, 3). According to the nature of the firing, no doubt remains of its being a case of a systematic and murderous attack on the German garrison. This was also admitted to Captain Karge by a civilian prisoner of the educated classes (App. 3). The participation of the Mayor's whole family proves that the Belgian authorities supported such treacherous deeds against the German troops--deeds that were, unhappily, only too frequent. In Aerschot this mischievous official authority led to the ruthless murder of the commanding officer. BERLIN, _January 17th, 1915_. Military Court of Inquiry into the Violation of Military Law. Signed: Major BAUER. Signed: Dr. WAGNER, Member of the Supreme Court of Judicature. A. App. 1. Present: Lieutenant of Reserve KLAUSS, Officer of the Court. Acting-Sergeant-Major ROSS, Clerk of the Court. ROUBAIX, _November 6th, 1914_. At the inquiry concerning the events in Aerschot, on the night of August 19-20, 1914, there appeared as witnesses: 1. The Adjutant of the 8th Infantry Brigade, Captain Schwarz. 2. The Orderly Officer of the 8th Infantry Brigade, Lieutenant of Reserve Beyersdorff. After they had been acquainted with the nature of the inquiry, and their attention had been called to the importance of the oath, they were separately examined, as follows: 1. Captain Schwarz. As to Person: My name is Carl Schwarz. I am 34 years of age, of the Protestant faith.