The brutality of the soldiers did not stop short of murder. “At _Henne_,” where the train stopped at 3.30 a.m. on August 29th, “a man got out to satisfy nature. He belonged to the village of _Wygmael_. He was going towards the side of the line when three German soldiers approached him. One of them caught hold of him and threw him on the ground, and he was bayonetted by one or other of them in his left side. The man cried out; then the German soldier withdrew his bayonet and showed his comrades how far it had gone in. He then wiped the blood off his bayonet by drawing it through his hand.... After the soldier had wiped his bayonet, he and his comrades turned the man over on his face.... A few minutes after he had wiped his bayonet, he put his hand in his pocket and took out some bread, which he ate....”[370] Between Louvain and the frontier two men in a passenger-carriage “tried to escape and broke the windows. The German sentinels bayonetted these two men and killed them.”[371] Two people on the train went mad,[372] and two committed suicide.[373] When the train started again after its halt at _Liége_, a man from _Thildonck_ was run over, and it was supposed that he had thrown himself under the wheels to put himself out of his misery.[374] When the train was emptied at _Cologne_, three of the prisoners were taken out dead.[375] The trucks were chalked with the inscription: “Civilians who shot at the soldiers at Louvain,”[376] and at every place in Germany where the train stopped the prisoners were persecuted by the crowd.[377] “At _Aix-la-Chapelle_,” states the curé of _Rotselaer_, “an officer came up to spit on me.”[378] At _Aix_, too, those destined for the internment camp at _Münster_ had to change trains and were marched through the streets. “As we went,” states one of them,[379] “the German women and children spat at us.”--“We arrived at _Aix-la-Chapelle_,” states another witness.[380] “There the German people shouted at us. At _Dürren_, between _Aix-la-Chapelle_ and _Cologne_, 4,000 German people crowded round. I turned round to the old woman with eight children, and said: ‘Do these people think we are prisoners? Show them one of your little children, at the window.’ This child was a month old, and naked. When the child was shown at the window a hush came over the crowd.” “When we reached _Cologne_ a crowd came round the trucks, jeering at us, and as we marched out they prodded us with their umbrellas and pelted us and shouted: ‘Shoot them dead! Shoot them dead!’--and drew their fingers across their throats.”[381] “At _Cologne_,” states the curé of _Rotselaer_,[382] “we had to leave the train and parade--men, women and children--through the streets under the surveillance of the police.”--“On the way,” adds another,[383] “the children in the streets threw stones at us.”