Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-24
EE- Gar Got Three Hours
TO Prepare for Execution
Nicholas Soon Shot After ConUiction-Wne
md Son Quickly Decentralization
Document Dated 1906 Found
Bv CARL ".

from side to side, mother and son soon
got ready.
Tomorrow get him out OF here the
Soviet chairman commanded the guard,
pointing at me.
Alexandra and Alexis were imme-
diately taken away by an automobile
truck. II IL not known where.
The morning Of the following day
the commissary again appeared and or
dered me TO get out OF the room. taking
with me some property of the Gear but
all the letters and documents belonging
TO the Gear were taken by the commits
sary. I left, but had great difficulty in
procuring a railway ticket. because all
the stations and trains were overhlled
with soldiers of the Red army, tossing
about and ~eVacuatinR the city and
taking along all precious objects"
An epilogue and supplement to the
manuscript, also written by pominen,
follow +
The Cheliabinsk newspaper Utro Sibei
states hat the Cars execution was GER
titled to by a special Government dec
laration at a place ten versts from
Ekaterinburg. On July 80 a tumuluS
was found containing metal things be-
longing TO each member OF the family of
the former Car and also bones Of
burned corpses. which may be those of
the Romanoff family.
"As hostages, Grand Duchess Elena
Petrova, Countess Henrikova and a
third. whose nam | don't know. were
taken away. The total hostages were
about six. The Bolsheviki fled in the
direction Of Nerknoturie."
Czar's Abdication Manifesto
The academlcian ~Bunakovsky. a
p,A,,har re tha p,,agiap IIiutortnnI CO
ciety. found accidentally in the secret
division Of the Senate archives the proof
sheet Of a collection of laws ordered Of
the Government dated October II. 1905,
in which was printed the following man
ifesto:
Disturbances and riots in the capital
and many parts OF the empire are hl-
ing my heart with painful GRIEF. The
! welfare of the Russian Emperor is in
dissolubly Joined witt the welfare of the
people, and the affiction Of the people
is his grief. From the disturbances
which have now arisen may proceed
deep disorder among the population, Il
threat 10 the unity and integrity of our
State.
I'm these days when the fate of Rus
STA is being determined we consider 1t
the duty of our conscience to fuse our
people into a close union and join all
the powers OF the population for the
height of the States prosperity.
Therefore, we have decided to abdi-
cate the throne of the Russian Empire
and lay dow the high power. Desiring
not to be separated from our beloved
son, we surrender the succession to our
brother. the Grand Duke Michael, and
bless him upon the ascendance TO the
Russian throne.
"'NICHOLAS ROMANOFF.
(Counter-signed)
Minister Of the Court, Baron Fredcr-
icks.
october 16. 1905. Novypeterhof.'
Written with a red pencil on the text
was Hold up printing, manage of ty-
Biography. Kedrinsky.'
He tells me the following details re-
garding the delay in printing the mani
festo: AT s o'clock on the evening of
October 16 ! received from a courier a
packet from the minister of the court.
Baron FrederiCks, asking me to publish
the manifesto in the next number of the
Collection of Laws. As the manifesto
was not received in the usual way,
through the Minister of Justice, Kedrin,
sky. in giyirg the manifesto to a typcg-
rapher TO prepare the printing. stimuli
taneously informed Shthegtovioft by
telephone.
"'At first the Minister of Justice only
asked for the holding up of the print
ing but at II o'clock the functionary
for special commissions from the min
lister visited Kedrinsky n asked for
the original of the manifesto and or
dered the proof-sheet transmitted to the
secret archives of the Senate"
Thus the Car spent the last days as
a Bolshevik prisoner, disappearing within
a few hours before the Czecho-Slovak
troops freed the terror-strlcken city OF
Ekaterinburg.