Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-04-06
Albuquerque Morning Journal, Sunday, April-6 1919

Cor anything which mEhf Sac found !
of any value. Jewels Sewn into thel
lining of the clothing, Religious. relics
and other personal trinkets. things
with which the family had never
parted, were stolen by the murderers.
The clothing was then piled into
several heaps and burned Buttons
pieces OF garters, corset stays ana
even Jewels were found among the
ashes and bear their grim testimony
Whether the bodies We're thrown
down a mine shaft or buried is not
definitely known, as they have not
been found. The first supposition is
credited as the most likely, as there
are about sixty mine pits IN the dis
trict and it would be almost .lmpossl-
Bile to recover the bodies. The muir
derers took every precaut.on to wipe
out all evidence of their crime, I'm
mediatelv after the murder the guard
was called in from the exterior of the
house to wash up the blood, There
are traces on the floor of the room
and in the hallway where the boards
were washed with sand.
During the five days succeeding the
crime, from July II to q, the guard
worked hard IN the lnatieff house to
obliterate all signs of the murder. All
objects which had belonged TO the i'm
periaI family, various ikons and per
sonal belongings were destroyed.
Other Romanoffs Killed.
! Later on the morning of July NJ,
after the execution. a message was
! sent to Lapayevsk, where other mem
/ hers of the imperial family, Grand
! Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna and
| Duke Sergius Michaelovtch. the three
sons of Grand Duke Constantin, John
Constantin and Igor and Count Pale,
were confined. ordering the local So
Wet to do away with them.
/ AT II o'clock on the night of july
! II a body Of men entered the school
| building where the imperial prisoners
were kept in custody and carried them
off to the woods, eight miles outside
| the city. Here they were hurriedly
, flung down mine shaft. When the
bodies were recovered the heads of
| the victims were found mutilated.
Perhaps they were knocked uncon-
scious before being thrown in, or il
/ may have been the effect of the fall,
The bodies were fully dressed and
were identified by papers and other
evidence found on their persons. The
4 work was hastily and clumsily done,
in striking contrast to the execution
of the czar and family. 1t was evil
i dent that the crime had not beer
planned, and that the murderers were
i carving out the hurried orders OF
! superiors.
on the morning of July IS it was
announced at meeting of the soviet
in Ekaterinburg that the czar had
been killed but that the members OF
the imperial family had been taken
:, out of town Another announcement
, said that a gang of officers had at
I tackled the house where the Crane
dukes were confined at Lapayevsk
and in spite of the resistance of the
) guard has been fortunate IN carrying
away the inmates.
The fate of those imprisoned IL
: Ekaterinburg was no happier. or
} July l Prince Dolgarukoff and Gen
eral Tatschieff, liberated from prison
were rearrested as they came out anc
shot that same night, on July 20
. Countess Gendrikoff Mile. Schneider
and two servants We're taken to Perm
{ by train. Here they We're again i'm
} prisoned and on the night of Angus
2 %, with other prisoners. were taker
, to the woods outside the town ant
/ shot. One of the servants who ma?
, has given the account of this las
crime. In these three murders alto
gether twenty-six persons were mas
sacred. The train that conveyed
Countess Gendrikoff and Mile
/ Schneider to Perm. ii was given out
was to take the cZarina, the czarvitci
! and the four grand businesses from
+. Ekaterinburg. u
/ All Criminals at Large.
9 None of the criminals who hav,
: played a part in these murders hai
ei been arrested. Doubtless some hav,
since fallen in battle. One of tn
= guards who was a witness of tn,
e murder of the czar, but denied com
r plicity, was taken but later died o
{ heart disease.
. When the news of the death of tn,
car and the Romanoff family reach
led the central soviet committee il
h Moscow the government was mucl
i concerned, and a number of message
, exchanged with the Ekaterinbur,
9 soviet have been found in which tn
central committee anxiously inquiries
whether it was true and that tn
1 murder had been carried out. |
= would seem that they were fearful o
= their crime This accounts for tn
: careful destruction of evidence.
y If the bodies are found they will b
, beyond Identification 1t is believe,
u that the crime was planned in higl
soviet circles, the names of three mel
= who were implicated enabling connec
S ton to be traced with the central gov
eminent.
Safaroff, Vuenoff and Galashchoki
e are the pseudonyms of these tire
e men whose real names are wei
/, known to the Investigation committee