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Show it ,5a DESERET EVENING KEWS nh xtov SATURDAY APRIL nr ' HOW TH J e Jr., New York World-Deser- Newt Staff Correspondent. et First Official and Complete Account of the Asgjisination of the . Czar of Russia and His Family, at Ekaterinburg Invests gatiort Has Been Gong On For Months Under Direction of Admiral Kolchak, Dictator of Omsk Government in Siberia. t sky. a Jewish apothecary, replaced Avdieff as commandant of the house From this date on llfe became a nlght-mato the prisoners who lived in constant fear of being executed at any The following articU was written jn VaU&vortok bp the blew New Sober-io- n tork eorrmpendent and wt mailed to Vancouver, B. C after having hem approved'bp the American re -- World-Deser- ) . moment. The climax of the tragedy came in the early morning hours of July 17. Hbortly before 2 o'clock five of the principal commissaries of Kkaterln-bur- g entered the house, giving orders to Yurodaky to awaken his imperial prisoners and announce to them that their last hour had come.' It was noj necessary .to aw kken the J?zar, whose fitful, fearing slumber was light and who had already heard He the adyent of Ins guard immediately toThesumnioiis to rue, while the other members of hts family were roused. Washing and dressing hastily they came to the ground floor at the brusque call of the commissaries, bsmg assembled in oiie of the rear rooms in the basement of the house. Here they were lined up iji a semicircle along the wall, the young Grand Duchess trembling at the unusual nature of the orders given and the gloomy hour. They more than suspected the errand upon which th commissaries had come Told They Were to Die. Addressing the for Tuwntrtv sHift-yu- t ttie1eaxt attempt id soften his announcement stated that they must all die and at once. The revolution was in dnccr. he stated, and (he fact that they were still the members of the once- - reigning house living added to that "Dance- Therefore to remove them was the duiv of ail Russian patriots. 'Thur your Ufa is ended. he said in couclutrt.-n- . et ecnsori. 'I? CopTight, . I J-- 1014", br xh, Pnw -. . ."Co Pub. - - CZAR OF AIM THE Rt'SSIAS. W8i foully pot to IOHOLAS. iter -- torij re at Ekator-lrrburand ail hopes that are entertained by hta mother, the Dowag- -, er 'Cxarin, watting for her eon In her Crimean exile, and ail various reports ' of the survival of his toe pnsooment, trial anLsntence by the Bolshevikl are based upon fait h which , had nothing whatever 'to Justify It. "With the unhappy lohoiaa died his wife, the czarina; his son and heir, aealh the .n , young czarevitch, g, ar.d hts daugh-- 1 tora v This has been officially ascertained by Cen. Dietrloha, delegated by Ad-- ! mirai Kolchak, the dictator of assemble the evidence colHe lected hy the Iral government has given- to me an unofficial statement of his finding in advance of the publication of hi official report now in the hands of the Siberian eu'.bori-- ' tic at Omik,. , Cen. Dietrichs secured hui proofs tf thff murder of the Romanoffs from four distinct sources, ail agreeing on all the main points. To dear up. what points yet remained, the Om,j governnient Is still continuing the in-- Ws supplication or 'protest, while duchthree sister, the other grand esses, sank to the floor fainting. d fired the first .shot. A volley followed and the prisoners reeled to th ground. Where the bullets had failed to find their mark the bayonet put the finishing touches. The mingled blood of the si ct tins not only covered - room where fhe exethe floor of cution took pTLce but ran in streams . L along the hallway. v It Is not known how many actually took pert in the murder. The house guard of ten Letts were among those, trad a hand" in tbe execution. who Th, firing squad., was drawn UP io la two lines. There were about In men the front row, IS or In the armed with revolvers, those rear rank carried rifles anfT bay oneto- were After the murders the bodies heaped onto a large motor truck And taken to the woods nine miles outride the city. Her the bodies were stripped A'rd the h clothing besearched found for anything whli might of my value. Jewels sewn Into the lining of th i iolhmg. religious relics and other personal trinkets, things, with which the fJmtly had - never parted, were stolen, by the murderers. The , Iolhmg was then piled into several heaps and ourncd. Buttons, t stays and pieces of garters, corv-even jewels were' found among the ashes and bear their grira. testimony. Whether the bod.es were thrown down a mins shaft or buried is 'hot definitely known, ss they have not been found The first supposition is credited as the most likeiy, as there in the dia- are nbwu suUv mine-pit- s t- estimation. Tortured, 11 tall Main; .The former czar and the mtmbvrz of his family were killed on Ihc ni 7 of July at 2 o'clock ia the morning; the Ip.vlleffJiotie in Ekatcnn-bursince occupied by Gen. Oa'da of the Czech Hiovak army us his headquarters. Fotlowmg weeks of mental and physic, U torture;, during which the g"a'i"Lx and her d.iu:;li'err were submitted To those. Lend qh sclte,: w ire !i arc a pari of Boshev.sin, the once Impc-lfamily wa? stnug tered. fcTiu.r b'oody c i pices well 1c A'lM into a conveyance and taken into the outtry tvlvtrl... tii.y ac co-- i s. eripped of their clothing Mnd the fje Late rCIcholas Romanoff, W hen Czar of All., the Russia bodies probably flung down a .d building, and the rein- -, n.ug members built all'a-oo-- outside tns mine snaft. The clothing was tneti instructions to take the other mem - - in Jui e no lights coaid be reiuov d from the of che imperial of i bets was i valuable loi at searched and JnthM Tondid seen in the flow's night snowe:;,;i,e civrma-- u. Kkrudmr, a the Ora ward biir.cu in an ffortto cover ;ta'; P Men., Guard of Ik-torDuchess Marine Nikolaevna train ke'd (the Czarevitc b. and j,hGranil Duehesae-.'ga. latmna all evll iicf pf the crime to the land PrftLe. Xajlgurukxslf- - toepec-ia- l The guaMDetailed Ldoas-in- thice Mk.nuu.vna All iftfi liaa been proved and the j pany the ciar. house consisted of 7S ( OUTlterv' Ipatieff Sthe.UT. lll.c ; not placed to thd Ipatieff h yusc. waiting J evidence is in the hands of the nl1JI WHS' Ba ne5, r.uksgevt nien taken from various IV waa vo' Jnt cmy eUcinkcf facout n if TtV.icchieff of these 1 were employee of men .Bolshevik of (main, to be given to, ''that Hu imprisoned These cxArina (accompanied tbe den. Dr l.otkiti, in Ekaterinburg. tories and nthfi... world ui whet will be cons.derecf the the interior guard. Avdieff. a ' 7 all vuefront-edwit- h formed 'The prisoners were not was appointed commanworkman, appropriate time. ' In the Ipatieff dant of the house, while Nimetieff. the samt fate . The Horiets had prev Ious'.y 3Ur- - . sbe believed 'this was to be the end. house were confined the czar, the anothJr factory hand, waa jiamed cussed other means of disposing of the and fell tnat her place should be next czanoa. the czarevitch, the four chief of the garrison. Uga. Tatiana. It had originally to the mpensr. This is the only rea- - grand due besses. Dr. Imperial family. confined were not at the outBotkin, also setThese Marie and Anastasia to any particular hardheen planed to wrack the imperial submitted the a maid, kitchen Icoy, cook, a they were kept prisship, although tram on the trip from Tobolsk 10 the time. Two servants and a ma.d aemperor's vs let. and two lackeys, oners and were allowed only a regula' ( were aiso allowed to accompany the while Mile. Schneider. Countess Ekaterinburg. tion walk twice a day to the garden ITince DolgarUkoff. Gen. Ta- - under . The sen useter tkegcHtfd-ef- Jpatieff house to Ekaterinburg PartJ left pnsonedT About July 8 oe 19 an event oc"Tnelnding deswhenthey Buksgevden, were" sent by curred in tne Soviet awhich was ward the end of April, jlS, and They did not know whether Baronet radical change 2 4 hours to tined to bring about had and - Vladt- Tunien to train towardwere taken 28 of Yakovleff, ty being April commissary (they in tbe life iir the Ipatieff house. The make their escap- eor They sent the Soviet, was dispatched from Mot- - Tostokwere the im- l Ekaterinburg workmen were L During the cpnfinement of house doomed imd hoped tor the thy a to the factories and 10 Lettshack cow to Tp bolk with orders to remoVe j to the e Or-thIpatieff AJUieo or family the 0f either perial Yurodprmsurt doable high Wooden pal lead o was were hired to replace them. czar to Ekaterinburg. Hs had no I many to sake them. 16-1- g, -- s er y o-- Gen-dTTb- The-remai- onoi, , Vhaf Is the Future nf RussiaX Dr, HrdlicVs of Rational Mamma Shows Inevitable Outcome Viewpoint. From t enormous popubttlon of Russia that (Special Correspondence.) ASHINGTOR, D. Cl, April 2. jin the end the Slavs or real Russians matotom the unity Probably the most wide- - I of ,l nation. nd over all discussed 1y topic subject of the Face of Russia, tbe world today ia the future says Dr. Hrdlieka. seems at first Russia. Will order and stable glance very baffling, yet if considered the viewpoint of anthropology, government emerge from the present from 4s simplified and there chaotic reign of terror and enable this the problem seen are to he large areas of racial its to take vast nation rightful place known peoamong the peoples of tbe earth) Dr. uniformity.Ale Hrdlieka, in a pamphlet just pub- pling of Rusva took place daring the I ?T S r ? The-earlie- st -- Hr- - i-? lished by the Smithsonian Instttntlon. later paleolithic epoch and the folconcludes from a thorough study of lowing neolithic times, but a much the elements which mak up the more important influx occurred during Complexion Rosy. Headache Gone. Tongue Clean. Breath Right Stomach, Liver and theKht m,ne haJtT ViCttil blT were recovered the heads of ere l'cUn hdps ther. were knocked unconsctci before being thrown in. br it been the effect of the fall. were fully dressed and wereThe bf, ictorn by, paper n their .The Pftyn., dOWn found-mutUat- ed. ,Aerkft a clunudiy done, th.e, eXBLuUn o t th. cEr ssjii burned ordl- On the morning pf ig lt Mnounced at a meetingjuty of th Hovi--fckaterlnberg jW th been killed btrt thaUihe'membeim had or the imperial family had been token out of town. Another announcement said that a gang of officers liad at. tacked th house where the grand dukew were confined at Lapavovsi. Aial in pne of The resistance of tin, guard had been fortunate m earning away Ole inmate. The fate of those imprisoned in Ekaterinburg was no happier. rn July 1 Prince Dolarukoff Sind Gen. Tatiachieff. liberated from prison were rear reeled as they came out and shot that same nlglit. ' On July 'o Countess Gendrikoff, Mile. Schneider And two .irva.iHnwere taken to Perm by train. Here they were again Imprisoned and 'on the night,, of Aug. 21. with other prisoners, 'were-take- n to tbe woods outside the town amt, shot. ' One of the servants who manto escape through the wood-aged, has given the account of tlhs laor crime. In these three murdbra altogether 26 persons were massacred. The retrain that conveyed Cduntewn Gendritonff and Mile. Schneider to Perm, it was" given out. was to take the Cxarina. the Czarvftch and the four Grand Duchesses from Ekaterin-bur- i. In family-reache- ia work-fariorie- x. v 'clthe to be traced with the central government. Safaroff, Vuezvoff and Galashebokiti are the peuedonyms of these three men whose real names are wenjenown to the Investigation committee. fav;;-;.,aVh- Asa-larc- whmseerth' rh" k 1 e c Jy murderers took every precaution to wipe out ail evidence of their crime. Immediately after the murder the guard was Dalled in from the exterior of the house to wash"up th- - bldod. There are traces on the flooe of the room and in the bailwav where the boards were washed with sand. . - During the five dry suecee erime, from July 1 to 21. thTcGa worked hard in the Ipatieff oh iterate aW mgrg or the mu rie? All objects which had belonged to th. fmpertat family, vai ion. ikons (,h personal belongings were dcetrot,j. Other Romanoffs Killed. th morning of 7lc:' onexecution, a sent fo Lapayevsk. wheremessage othof me, " imperial lhe r,erv.f family. Kufhe cFJixabeth Feodorovna i,n,d is iht ihrii sons of Grand MiehaebTvitch. iJljke Constantin and Igor ConsUutin and Count Pal rttonXtosd, -the lo viet to do awayordering with them. f Jo1 77 Aa bo'dy menVm building wre kept in cuatody and carried Mine of th criminals who have played a part in these murders has been arrested. Doubtless some have since fallen in battle. One of the guards who was a witness of the murder of the czar, but denied complicity, was taken but later died of heart disease. t When the news of the death of the czar and the Romanoff th Central Soviet committee in Moscow the government wax much concerned, and a number of messages exchanged with the Ekaterinburg Soviet have been found in y which the central committee Inquired whether it was true and that the murder had been carried out. It would seem that thc-were fearful of theSr crime. This accounts for the careful destruction of evidence If the bodies are found they would be beyond identification. It Is behov- -- e 1 EE8 Record Verified By Siberian Government Tells of Cruel Murder July 17 By Wilfrid Fleixher, bECJaONFuU H ""' L,, B X-CZ- AR ,. 1Z d am-tousl- Czar and Czarevitch "I am .ready, of nouncement ng was the simple an- while .J!k loosed her hold long enough to make the sign of the cross, an example followed by the Grand .Duchess Olga, and by Dr. Botkin The czarevitch, paralyzed Wdth fear, stood in stupefaction betnde hts Czarina.-clingi- mother, czqr, the, to him, ottering ncr sound either in Both Murdered. trb't and it would be almost la recovcrAhe imposei-J)- bodies, Th ed that lhe crime, waa plannod.,iix.hJch. Soviet circles, the names of three men who were Implicated enabling cohoer-tio- n -- greater than that of any other people, foreign trade, could not pay a much Gerard recalled the fact that when the in Europe except some of the other! indemnity as the Allies were demand- - Lusitania, and other inhuman outrages branches of the Slavs, and with the ing. He (.aid he believed' Germany oocueeed eely two voltes Iir Germans nvaas-p"tlie people belonging to the should not be admitted to the league were lifted in protest. They were rural popu- of nations until by years of repentance Maximilian Harden and Karl Lieb conservative, simple-livelation, cannot be expected to become and atonement she. has paid for her knecht, recently assassinated, much reduced in the near futnre. Such- - crime - Mr; Gerard said he believed the rate of increase of this- - otherwise "Is there any fightheft in thevGer-mans- ? Kaiser had last his hold upon the afand was he asked. able portion of the white strong of the German people, and fections means a X stock, biological momentum think not." he said- - "They told of the recent kidnapping of the "No, which in the end must prevail over all are humiliated. Their soldier 'superson. He Croktt Prince's equally true of Siberia and Russia can not but have opposition. Dari of Russia by the Goths, the i day is measure have been beaten. They are sick said this pointed to a possible counter even of the CauAisus. a future commensurate with her po- men' war. Btona the Khazara and finally the of revolution in years to come, with an Central Asia the Russian element tential power last end overwhelming Tartar or jin ' is still considerably exceeded Answering the question, Are th effort to seat this boy on hi grandby tbe I "Mongol" Invasion which covered all Turko-TaMr. German heart? fathers throne. New York Herald. r people good at tars. From the anthropoThe d re sent Ckrainla and beyond. southern Russian were slaughtered logical standpoint, the Russian stock In large numbers or forced to flee is well developed, virile, resistant, and truly and. to th's day. a large part of the full of potential force. It mayreserve population of Crimea is more or less, be said" to be the great humanIf it has of the European population. Tartar TAKING UTE KAISER not advanced is culture as much as Stock. A Strong,--Prolifisouthern western and the European real In the meantime, however, the ir- ration the causes If contemplated Russians had continued to spread and impartially are seen to have been not OU AS EXHIBIT resistibly over European Russia pop- inherent or racial, but geographic and The modern Jlnvan Siberia. not be mnst It forgotcircumstantial. ulation represents a physically strong ten fhat Russia by acting from its Inand very prolific stock, freer as yet ception as the buffer between the rest conditions than from degenerative The Kaiser ought not to he sent to of the large Euro- of Europe and Asia and by becoming perhaps any other The total population of later the principal check of the Turk, St. Helena That would be too dignipean group deserved the deep gratitude of the fied. And be should not bq Hurola counted at the beginning of has executed, mure western and more favorably sitthe war wss 178.000,000 for that would make a martyr of him. uated nation the xotistders then HrdliekaDr. "What will be Russia's future? Per- He should be escorted around the raoes of European world on a trip pf exhibition, so that Ruiwia. including the roles, Lithuan- haps the anthropologist may attempt would hesiians. the Tchouds and Fines and the to predict where 'others people might see the man responsible v" Finno-Ugria- n tribes of the interior, tate "The Russian Slavs taken collec- for so much misery. the Laps and the Samoyeds. the TarJames W. Gerard, formerly ambasand tively. count today over one hundred tars the tribe of She Caucasus, Gerand millions, and they are Increasing year- sador to Germany, gave this as his sofinally the Immigrah. Jewswere v ly by the excesv of births over deaths lution of the man of which last there question What shall we 2.000.000 at the beginning of by 1.700,000. This rate of increase is do with the Kaiser? at the Brooklyn th war In mi ram rag up his studios, the auAcademy of Music, yesterday afterMan Ha Miraculous thor savs noon. He spoke under the auspices localand details ail aside 'Leaving Escape of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and ized ethnic peculiarities wq find that Sciences. Mr. Gerard bad lectured at th racial problems of European as I was told br our family physician well as of Asiatic Russia, are relatively that I could' 'not live wtthottt an op- a similar affair last year amF r yestold hie hearers he would omit porsimple (1) We find over aA large suberation. as my liver and gall cade terday the lecture and allow them to ask him thin tion of the vast territory th art I condition. a such wrre in s, who are of question they wished. stratum of I any "How- much indemnity shall Gerwith day to go to the hospttol, hut then western Astatic origin and of h Mayr's srtisement many pay Belgium V waa the first. them varying trace of Mongolia Remedy. Blnce taking H "Germany should pay for every cent admixture. (2) The southern portions Wonderful I feeling like a In Belgium," Of damage she caused of Russia from remote ttrpee const- Iamamsure I never could havo survived said MrGerard.r "There was no preitute' broad avenue for the movement harmIn the tovtunoft. On It ia a simple, tense operation. of Asiatic peoples in a wceteMy direc- an less preparation that removes Um Augustaffright 10, 10lL I asked th Kaiser tion. "These people are partly of- catarrhal mucus intestinal the from why Belgium had been invaded, and Iranian, bnt In the main of Tnrkobottle of Danderfne costs but a few cents allays the Inflammation he told me it was for strategic reaTartar derivation;- and the Torke-Tartar- s tract end ft causes sons. alt which Flnno-t'griastomach, are thepractically like store. It stops falllnj hair, itching any Jn answer to th and ends question. "How mixed peoples, partly white sod partly liver and Intestinal ailments. Includscalp dandruff, beside! it doubles the beauty of Mongolian. Their influence, both ra- ing apdicitta One doss will con- much indemnity shall Germany pay your hair, mak-ta- g cial and cultural, on the country and vince or money refunded. Kchramm-Johnaon- 's the Allies? Me. Gerard saM it Wan his if appear twice as heavy, thick, and abundant. fhe account S oil of good stores and druggists belief that Oermany its people is marked and to a measure Try Ui 1 destruction of her chief resources, her every bore Advertisement. persists eves to the bronze. Along lheBaie we the latest neolithic and thefrom the tribes in the north and Lithuanians, periodii. procead;pK and also probably of mixed Slavic and sdlanait regions in Europe the aEdtrrnrn graat t... b, . wiki, -si lion; felther southward traces author The and westward- (4) All thereat of the Asia. of steppes vagreat region is Slav. Polish to the west, the divisions and locations of theRusltuwrian in the center and eastward. rious peoples who make up the from the earliest sian population, Human Rome of Europe. , tribes, the Cimmerians and Tauri. It is eminently true that Russia anrif6n . srv25,r..ss,'nrH;jr: d r. 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