Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1919-03-28 | Page 6 | Confirms Death of Czar

CONFIRMS DEATH OF CZAR. Romanoffs Butchered by Bolshevik, Reports French Officer. San Francisco. Confirmation of the execution of the former emperor of ltussia and his wife and daughters under particularly revolting condltivps by Bolshevik troops was made here March 24 by General Robert C. Paris, one of the first French officers to be assigned to the Czecho-Slovak army in Russia. General aPris is on his way home to make an official report of the occurrence to the French government. He arrived here the day before from Vladivostok. Nicholas and his family were shot in the basement of their house at Ekaterinburg, Ekater-inburg, Siberia. The women of the once royal family were subjected to Indignities and mistreatment in the presence of the former czar before the executions took place, General Paris said. . A few days following the murder the bodies were taken tinder cover of nighi by automobiles into near-by villages, where they were cut into small pieces and burned separately. The charred remains were found by officers of the forces opposed to the Bolshevik!.