diff --git a/src/main/java/org/searsia/index/HitsSearcher.java b/src/main/java/org/searsia/index/HitsSearcher.java
index 09fd65a..e07125c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/searsia/index/HitsSearcher.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/searsia/index/HitsSearcher.java
@@ -23,12 +23,14 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DirectoryReader;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.queryparser.classic.ParseException;
 import org.apache.lucene.queryparser.classic.QueryParser;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.MatchAllDocsQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.ScoreDoc;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.TopScoreDocCollector;
 import org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory;
 
@@ -95,7 +97,7 @@ public SearchResult search (String queryString, int hitsPerPage) throws IOExcept
             throw new IOException(e);
         }
         collector = TopScoreDocCollector.create(hitsPerPage, true);
-    	if (searcher == null) open(); // reopen index every 3 searches, to see updates.
+    	if (searcher == null) open(); // reopen index to see updates.
         searcher.search(query, collector);
         docs = collector.topDocs().scoreDocs;
         for(ScoreDoc doc: docs) {
@@ -105,10 +107,27 @@ public SearchResult search (String queryString, int hitsPerPage) throws IOExcept
             hit.put("score", doc.score);
             result.addHit(hit);
         }
-        if (requests++ > 3) close(); // close index every 3 searches, to see updates
+        if (requests++ > 10) close(); // close index every 10 searches, to see updates
         return result;
     }
     
+    
+    public Hit getDocument(String hitId) throws IOException {
+    	Term term = new Term("id", hitId);
+    	Query query = new TermQuery(term);
+    	TopScoreDocCollector collector = TopScoreDocCollector.create(1, true);
+    	if (searcher == null) open();
+    	searcher.search(query, collector);
+    	if (collector.getTotalHits() > 0) {
+        	ScoreDoc[] docs = collector.topDocs().scoreDocs;
+        	Document doc = searcher.doc(docs[0].doc);
+        	Hit hit = new Hit(doc.get("result"));
+        	return hit;
+    	} else {
+    		return null;
+    	}
+    }
+    
     /**
      * Dump the index to standard out
      * @throws IOException
@@ -117,7 +136,7 @@ public void dump() throws IOException {
         TopScoreDocCollector collector;
         ScoreDoc[] docs;
         collector = TopScoreDocCollector.create(999999, true);
-    	if (searcher == null) open(); // reopen index every 3 searches, to see updates.
+    	if (searcher == null) open();
         searcher.search(new MatchAllDocsQuery(), collector);
         docs = collector.topDocs().scoreDocs;
         for(ScoreDoc doc: docs) {
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/searsia/index/TestHitsSearcher.java b/src/test/java/org/searsia/index/TestHitsSearcher.java
index a1cd6ed..bc1360b 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/searsia/index/TestHitsSearcher.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/searsia/index/TestHitsSearcher.java
@@ -4,15 +4,14 @@
 import java.io.FileReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.concurrent.ArrayBlockingQueue;
-import java.util.logging.Level;
-import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
+import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
+import org.apache.log4j.varia.NullAppender;
 import org.json.JSONArray;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.BeforeClass;
 import org.junit.Test;
-
 import org.searsia.Hit;
 import org.searsia.SearchResult;
 import org.searsia.index.HitsSearcher;
@@ -23,6 +22,7 @@
  */
 public class TestHitsSearcher {
 
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger("org.searsia");
     private static final String PATH  = "target/index-test";
     private static final String INDEX = "test";
     private static HitsWriter writer;
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ public class TestHitsSearcher {
       
     @BeforeClass
     public static void setUp() throws Exception {
-    	Logger.getLogger("").setLevel(Level.WARNING); 
+    	LOGGER.removeAllAppenders();
+    	LOGGER.addAppender(new NullAppender());
     	queue = new ArrayBlockingQueue<SearchResult>(2);
     	writer = new HitsWriter(PATH, INDEX, queue);
         SearchResult result = readFile("exampleSearchResult.json");
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ public static void setUp() throws Exception {
         writer.flush();
         searcher = new HitsSearcher(PATH, INDEX);
     }
- 
+    
     private static SearchResult readFile(String fileString) throws IOException {
         SearchResult result = new SearchResult();       
         String s, jsonString = "";       // TODO: Does the following file name work in Windows?
@@ -80,8 +81,15 @@ public void testSearch3() throws Exception {
         SearchResult result = searcher.search("retrieval");
 		Assert.assertEquals(6, result.getHits().size());
     }
-
     
+    @Test
+    public void testSearch4() throws Exception {
+        SearchResult result = readFile("exampleSearchResult.json");
+        Hit hit1 = result.getHits().get(0);
+		Hit hit2 = searcher.getDocument(hit1.getId());
+		Assert.assertEquals(hit1.getTitle(), hit2.getTitle());
+    }
+
     /** 
      *  Can also be used from the command line to test an existing index
      *  @param args query