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Show DEATH OF RUSS ROYAL FAMILY IS CONFIRMED Independent Investigators Unearth Un-earth Facts on Horrible Massacre of Eleven LON'lnfN. A UP rtr-'-'All posVtd'e'-' dotlbtfl that former Kniperor Nicholas of Russia and his family were assassinated assassi-nated In the basement of their prison house al Ekaterinburg on the night of July 10, 1918, seem to bo dispelled by the accounts of two Independent; Investigators which are published lure une is printed by the London Tmes and vva written by Its former Petrograd correspondent, Robert Wilton. Wil-ton. The other appears lii the magazine maga-zine Nineteenth Century and After und is from the pen of Captain Francis McCullagh of the British army Both spent several weeks at Ekaterinburg and talked with natives and BOldlCTS who witnessed the affair through the windows of the ill-fated house. Both; writers agree on the important details Of the story I I I I N 14 I IMS The victims of the massacre, they' say. numbered eleven, being the former for-mer emperor, his wife, son and four daugntcra, l'r. Botkln ana ihree servants ser-vants Tin- assassination was arranged by XuroVskl, the jailer In charge of the deposed royal tamtiy. and was car-; rl d out by LI solellers. The Times" uexount says these men were Ixtts. 1 but Captain SdcCullagh declares they were .iugyars, who had been placed on duty instead of a Russian guard because the Bolshevik! feaied a I!u-Bian I!u-Bian could not be trusted for the work.' Hi PE GIVEN I I. Captain .McCullagh a story says all the eloomed party, except Nicholas, were on their knees, crossing them-' selves, as Yurovskl shouted the order for the execution of "Nicholas Ho-manoff, Ho-manoff, the bloody, and all his fam-. iiv." The former omperor then step-' ped quickly in front of his wife and Children, saying something which, could not be heard, and vvas shot by YurOVSkl Then the remainder of the party was shot down with revolvers; and later the soldiers bayonetted tho bodies, he said. These accounts confirm previous reports, re-ports, but It Is known the former emperor's em-peror's mother, who Is in Copenhagen, Copenha-gen, and Queen Alexandru. of Great Britain hoth have refused to give up, hopo of the royal family's escape un- : VA quite recently |