Show i writer gives 0 only ly eirv I 1 harj account of russian royal tragedy tra cely sow new ork bloj itkin son ot or tha it phy ichill tu to tile late czar of has written for fop the north til wll want it 1 ha ilc ile scribes n ns tile the only dinst liand account of tlc alc rila r of the rhe ItIl rayni ani nl family at on flight of july julf 17 1918 1018 by a bolshevik frig iiii ind story lie he asserts Is esthe the eyewitness eye witness version of the massa massafra mas sacra cre told to him ay tile the mysterious princes anastasiu Anasta eliose wh be arrival hi america two years ago created a sen atlon bation which was heightened by the tha fact that sh she e never gave V public bublic con firina tion to the claims made by her friends that she was the youngest daughter of tile the czar and the only survivor of the 1 I not merely believe her to be anastasia I 1 know eliat she Is declares kothen whoso choso childhood was spent as a playmate or of the elars children who the royal family on the first stage of its eile culle and who since his arrival in america in 1022 has made a as artist and author ills rather was among those slain along with the lie czar czarina prince and the grand duchesses saw czar shot through head slit she tells in detail of all the events preceding the shooting on the night of july 17 1018 1918 lie he relates her last recognition Is 19 that site she saw th Xo shoot the alie edip em through the hend head she herself hid behind tier her sister olga then she heard olga scream and lost consciousness ness she come came to herself in a peasant i rait cart traveling along tile the with two men and two tivo women vo inen she was covered with wounds and for a long ions time lime saml conscious ven elout liter t was p ki io her that tho the two nen were among the vik shoot fig n squad anti and tile bodies ii tile the victims to t fit ohp foredt they no 1 I ved that anastasia wils ns allive and li hp he night flight a ill alie froin lath atlon nl 01 he bodies stole her ond birou brought bt her 0 o their farni I 1 from niini there boldn ilon their mid sister thoi they on the sam ellit in a cart in i 1 direction artel after decks of it weary trivel travel they leacho rea 1 rumania Ku mania there Antis An sista trula marriell ninn mar one of her rescuers and wc gave hirth to a son soon afterward lier her husband kolasky oft sky was killed hilled in the ohp of In nc harpst charest an istrin son in wits was taken away front from hr h r und in an or hall gium asylum there ahr lip lie Is said raid to have lied licit tier her way tr tc 3 she sli win teI to find bior yi go l kotlier princess irene of riison riis sli ln arrived lit in berlin she eirew herself from it bridge tn in a fi fit of despair hut hill ans rescued by the police S since lice F fac he ie I to ansbe i single quest question qu estton lon slip slie was wn 3 placed ir I 1 in insane blaul if it wig 19 there im iio was by br russian who had known her fier in childhood they obtained tier her from the it in 1922 at the instigation of ills his sister who hod visited vi Silted the young oung woman then as madame echalk owsley in berlin botkin went abroad in 1920 ind was instrumental in bringing Anti starlit to new york leeds oppose liar fight for fortune lere she was received as the guest of if mrs william D B leeds leeda the former princess xenia of greece a distant cousin of the czar but later botkin charges in tahe north american review aralle ait ar lile the leeds took the side of other distant relatives who were claiming tile the considerable fortune left y the czar in england germany and bieland bIn finland land they readily admitted her identity tie lie says il but ut somehow the policy of the Imp imperial erfal family prevailed atins alias basla tasla was not to be officially acknowledged anastasia left the tha leeds long island estate sud suddenly doily spent a short bitne in the tiny studio apartment of john ihn it 11 colter new york newspaper man then found haven for a year with friends lit in garden city L L relates botkin for the past year she has been living with miss annie burr jennings a of an old new york vork family fan itly in tier her suburban suburb aix home |