The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-08-14
,lGiULAS FATE RE-
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a resume OF all the tIctS, rumors anG
! tLeorleS that he couIu gather upon
t..e subject, anu leaves ii still invested
WIln all atmosphere OF mystery dnC
DOUBT. After setting forth state
ment said TO have been made by
ParTen Dominin, a body servant of the
car, III which circumStantial dc-
count is gwen OF the last days of the
czar i'll the Ipatieff house at Ekater-
lGDurg, and OF the cZar'S being taken
away from his family for midnight
trial before the Ural District Soviet,
and OF his subsequent execution, no
body knows where" during the night
OF July 16, by squad OF Red army
soldiers, Alderman sums the evidence
up thus:
Throughout the time the czar and
his family were imprisoned here ef-
forts were being made to release him.
On more than one occasion the car
received a message stating that he
would soon be freed. General Dun
ekin, who is now commanding the
Cossacks near Kieff, an old and init
mate friend of Nicholas, was endeav-
oring in every possible way to save
his. former imperial master. General
Dutoff, another friend of the czar. op-
Grating in the Urals, also was seeking
to deliver his friend. The Czecho-
Slovaks, despite their revolutionary
tendencies, were bent upon snatching
the car from the Bolsheviki.
There were Independent Russian
and foreign business interests in
Ekaterinburg which wanted him re-
leased. More money was spent in try
ing to free Nicholas Romanoff than
the Bolsheviki ever used in guarding
and transporting him or maintaining
an organization to prevent his escape.
AT times he was guarded by only
three Red guardsmen.
Thus in advance of the cars trial
before the secret night session of the
Ural District Soviet bitter and cease
less contest between the friends and
enemies of the car was being waged.
Ekaterinburg was the center of in
trigue and the cZar himself was play
ing no unimportant part.
After the trial where the car is
said to have been condemned to
death, the Moscow wireless station
sent out a nofficial communication
addressed, as are we'll messages under
control of the Soviet. ''To all, to all,
to ALL announcing that the czar had
been executed at Ekaterinburg, but
that the family had been removed to
a place of safety.
But was Nicholas II killed? If so,
how and where? This is where she
real mystery of the cars fate begins.
From that date until today the
kinds has been published to prove
his death and to announce that he
is still alive. Weighing the evidence
regarding the czar himself, I should
say that six-tenths of the weight in
dicates that he is dead; four-tenths
that he may be alive. The czar was
tried, condemned to death, and TAX
en- from the court room back to the
Ipatieff residence. Some maintain
that he was executed Immediately in
the basement, or on the first floor
of this house. Other citizens declare
that he was taken outside the city and
shot. Some hink that he was murdered
in the house without trial.
ITO show how the testimony diff
fers I shall refer to the published
statements of Prince Lvoff.
He declared in Vadivostok and in
Japan that he and the car were kept
in the same prison and had the same
jailers. That can not be true as far
as Ekaterinburg Is concerned, be-
cause l could not find man in Eka-
terinburg who had heard that Prince
Lvoff was in the Ipatieff residence
as prisoner. Prince Lvoff and many
others declare that the czar and his
whole family were killed in the
1patieff house, and they point to the
bullet holes in the walls of the room.
THE nun from the monastery who
took eggs and milk to the czarwitch
told me that she is positive none of
them was executed in this house, and
that the cZarina, the czarewitch and
the daughters were taken away in a
motor truck which she saw standing
in the grounds of the Ipatieff resi-
dence July Is. She believes the czar
is dead, but that the family is still
alive. On the other hand, one of the
priests from the same monastery, who
died short services upon a few occas-
ions in the house for the imperial
family assured me that the family is
alive and well,
while 1 was in Tiumen the chief
city between Omsk and Ekaterinburg
one of the members Of the Russian
nobility, who was an intimate friend
of the czarina, received a message
from the interior of Russia by courier,
saying, Your friends are WELL When
questioned the American, British
and French consuls, who were in the
city during the Bolshevikist occupa-
ton, as to their opinions, they stated
frankly that they did not know wheth-
er the czar was dead or alive, and
they were still conducting their in
vestigation. Professor Ipatieff, who is
now living on the first floor of his
house, surrounded by most OF the