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The most detailed account that has yet appeared in the press of the murder of ex-Ciar Nicholas, his wife and five children, is cop- tained in the Rusalan, nevypaper Premiz, puldiahed in Berlin- The facts which were supplied to the Fremya by Commt A. AS Tolstoy were collected from borh friends and enemies, who were near...... the Czar during his captivity, or at the time of the mar ders. As a result of the fact that the Soviet Government at Mos-

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"When the Czar's family,” FÜRS Count Tolstoy's story, was removed from Tobolsk to Ekater inburg it was lodged in a house belonging to the engineer Igatieff." (A photograph of this house that has appeared in Swedish newspapers shows it. to be a big two-storied dwelling in the middle of a large yard, which is surrounded by a stockade. The stockade does not resemble the ordinary Bus- sian wood fence; it is made of thick logs touching one another and sharpened at the top, and was probably erected when the house was chosen as an imperial. prison. The faw living persons who witnessed the captivity in Ekaterinburg describe it in the darkest colours as an unbroken series of offences and outrages of all conceivable kinds.

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transportation back into Michig-elapsed since then, the art of the imperial family's bedroom, an. Toledo, the nearest large Japanese type-writing has made this under Ohio city to Michigan, did an very good progress, and to-day no searching for supposed illicit the pretext of unprecedented business. In-one dares to question the correspondence, for weapons, or numerable motor cars journeyed practical use of the new invention. for poison, it being suspected that THE SIAM INDUSTRIES SYNDICATE into the town from Michigan and In fact, the development of the the prisoners had conspired to started back along the road to art so far made is such that the kill their guards and then take Detroit with cases and barrels of most dever of the Japanese with to fight. During these searches, his brush cannot compete with a The distance from Toledo to good typist in spelling. Japanese Detroit 65 miles, was almost a or Chinese "characters. The continuous moving line of motor record number of, words type cars and carts carrying liquors. written in a minute is 78, The service of cars on the inter- Under the auspices of the Kobe town railway line between Toledo Chamber of Commerce, a com- and Detroit had to be tripled to petition in Japanese typewriting provide for people making pur-took place recently at chases of bottles of rum in Toledo Chamber of Commerce building the Red for use in Detroit. Once back in with a view to encouraging handling his son, called them to Detroit they entered restaurants more extensive use of the order in a loud voice, he received and drank liquors with their machine. Twenty-one typists, a blow in the face and. amid bribes from the Czecho-Slovaks turned to the Czar and said, with meals without incurring any of whom eight were males, penalty because the liquor was participated in the competition, .in their private possession. The first prize was won by Mr. Three persons were killed en Nakagawa Nabichi. of Okura & route to Detroit when

a motor Co., who wrote at the rate of 68.3 car ran into an intertown car.words per minute. The air was filled with dying

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of the doorway. general laughter, was thrown out and

Czar's friends, a malicious grin: "Under the influence of these "I see that you have already "The imperial family's impri-exents an extraordinary meeting prepared yourself.

To this the Czar answered: sonment was shared by the court of the Council of Workmen and physician, Professor Botkin, the Soldiers was held the same even- "Yes, I am ready."" Baroness Buxhoevdan. the ing. In this meeting the e-

But it is not thee only we bottles and a large quantity of ceedings under the Congressional Schneider, and Prince Dolgoruki took part. At the meeting, which are going to make an end of the Czarina's "lectrice, Madame public's official representatives want, continued Yarovsky. We liquor was strewn on the road. Law which prohibits transport- Although almost the whole Issted till 1 in the morning the Czarina and the whole brood. Many other less serious accidentaling intoxicants from a "wet" happened. all resulting in crack-State into a prohibition State, al of

building was at the dispose of the Czar's family was "Therewith he made a sign ed bottles and waiting over lost but

the imperial

In favour family sealed. there were

of their the Red Guards to seize the liquor.

voted not enough all the members spent their execution

the Pre-prisoners, and added: officers to stop the traffic. More -The Féderal authorities #ill

nights in the remotest room of sident of the Council of Work- "Take them out, and make no.. be placed

duty the house, where the Czarina men and Soldiere a workman ceremony about it i attempted to interrupt the pro-immediately.

slept on a wooden bed; the heir named Bielobrodoff, and hel The Red Guards now sur- who was ill, lay ina wheeled was supported. by the President rounded the prisoners and drove chair which had been brought of the Extraordinary Commission them towards the door. The.. from Tobolsk, and the Czar and of Ekaterinburg, Commissary of Czar went first, carrying in his his daughters lay on the floor on Justice Yurovsky. After the arms his son, who had fainted. straw mattresses and owing to sentence had been confirmed by He was pale and stumbled, but lack of bedclothes, covered them the signatures of those present he quickly recovered himself and selves with the clothing of the Yurovsky and Bielobrodoff betook walked with quicker steps. Grand Duchesses. Two old foot themselves to M. Ignatieff's After him went the Czarina. men, Volkoff and Tshemoduroff, house in order to be present at who mattered prayers without served the prisoners. One of the execution, which was to be ceasing. The Grand Duchesses. them was afterwards shot by the carried out by the detachment of and the Baroness Barhoevden Red Guards, but in the middle of Red Guards then holding watch. cried hysterically, and the Red July the other succeeded in es-

"This detachment did not even Guards had literally to drag them caping from the prison where he take the trouble inquire down to the cellar of the house; was kept."

. to Yarovsky's and where the execution was to take Bielobrodoff's credentials or to place... the Czecho-Slovak advance in read the written sentence. The At the staircase leading to the mid-July made it clear to the verbal communication of the cellar the doomed persons met [local Soviet anthorities that sentence was received with loud another group, consisting of Court

Ekaterinburg could not be held, hurrabs, whereupon, the whole Physician Botkin, Madame: and how, if connection with this mob rushed into the imperial Schneider. Prince Dolgraiki and

family's bedroom. rumours were spread with provo-

Count Tatietcheff. The Czar cative aim to the effect that after heard the hurrahs and the noise

"When the Czar and his wife said to them! “?

So, it is the same with you." the capture of Ekaterinburg the

made by the Red Guards they As the Bed Guards feared – Siberian troops proposed to liberate Romanoff" and restore understood at once what was that rifle bullets would ricochet him to his former rights. The about to happen. They threw from the brick walls of the shall garrison became restless and deon their clothes and knelt down cellar, they shot their victims e

to pray.... manded that the whole family Duchesses, in terror press between the eyes or at the

The young Grand close range with revolvers aiming? should be put out of the way; ed against one and that all persons who were The heir began to cry and tried lated to their friends that the another. [temples. The executioners ré-- with them in imprisonment to rise, but he fall out of his victims were shot one by

should share the same fate.

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chair; whereupon the Czar stop- First came the Czarina, then the When the Council of People's ped praying and took him in his Grand Duchesses, and finally th Commissaries (Ekateridburg was arms to Cher, who all the time held then capital of the North Ural~~ At this moment the door heir in his arma Republic), showed themselves opened, and Yurovsky, followed After the exe vacillating, the Red Guards, on by the Red Guards, entered the ware te July 16 held a meeting, which de-room The Baroness Buxhoer, an Lveloped into an open revolf den, who hearing the noise, hid

against the Commissariat end the hurried into the room, ru Council of Workmen and Bold forward to the Cratins and ers, these being socused of taking collapsed in hysteria. Yurova –