Note 75 — Chapter VII · CIVILIANS IN THE TRAIN OF AN ARMY

The want of an adequate authorization led in 1874 to the shooting of the Prussian newspaper correspondent Captain Schmidt by the Carlists, which raised a great outcry. Schmidt was armed with a revolver, with maps of the seat of war, and also with plans and sketches of the Carlists’ positions, as against which he had only an ordinary German passport as a Prussian Captain and was seized within the Carlists’ outpost, and since he could not defend himself, verbally, on account of his ignorance of the Spanish language, he was convicted as a spy by court-martial and shot.