Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-10-24
SLAYER OF CAR
SILENT ON DEED
Trembles With Horror
And Rage When Sub
iect Is Approached

Herewith is the last INSTALL
ment of a portion of Captain Fran
els McCullagh's vivid account of
the murder of former Gar Nicho-
las and his family, printed from
THE Nineteenth Century and AT
ter" by permission of the Leonard
Scott Publishing Coz
YuroVsky, murderer of the car, a
Russian Jew, is now Inspector of life
insurance for the province of Ekater-
inburg, and is supplied with an excel
lent house and all comforts by the
Bolshevikis. However, he is treated
as an outcast and none will have any
thing to do with him. Captain Nc
Cullagh could find no one who would
take him to Yurovsky and finally I'M
der pretense of asking questions con-
corning life insurance, called at Yu-
rovsky's house alone. His story of
that experience follows;
1t was with a certain amount of
construction in the heart that | walk
ed into the passage. The passage was
long and dark and at the end stood a
man, SLIGHTLY bent and in a suspicious
and expectant attitude 1t was Yu-
rovsky. | saw that this terrible mon
ster was standin~ in the same atti-
tude that he had waited outside the
cars bedroom on the night of the
murder.
1t was Yurovsky, the czaracide!
He is man of about 40 years and
he is grayish and wrinkled, and looks
much older. He wore an unkempt.
grayish mustache and uncombed
brown hair and he had not shaved
for some days. His face was sallow,
square and not distinctively Jewish
and his eyes were greenish in hue and
filled with hard, cold look of dis
trust.
He wore a great black fur coat
which reached to the ground and
underneath it were pajamas. He
wore cloth slippers and his whole APP
pearance made me think he had been
sleeping.
I tried to overcome a strong feel
ing of repugnance which swept me,
and l reached out my hand and clasp
ed the limp, clammy and rather I'M
willing hand which hung by his side
the hand that murdered the car!
l knew nothing of insurance, but
began to speak rapidly and in hectic
manner on the subject
He babe me sit down and himself
collapsed into an arm chair and re-
NAMED silent for few seconds. He
apologized for his costume, saying he
suffered from heart disease. 1t was
on the tip of my tongue to ask him if
he hadn't suffered 1t since the night
of the murder. but | bit back the
words.
Yurovsky told me of his comrades
of the murder and how Goloshokin
had died of typhus and # his Yurov-
sky's) mothers death. He spoke for
a long time with evident feeling.
Captain McCullagh says that he
had talked with correspondent who
told him that Yurovsky's mother be-
fore her death had been "savagely
proud that her son had now secure
place in history.O
Yurovsky told me of the atrocities
committed by the Whites and once he
said: "What are 60 menu" 1t was
this terrible question that made me
realize that l was beginning to forget
was in the lair of human tiger
and face to face with devil incar-
nate.
But. though Yurovsky speaks light
lv of large numbers done to DEATH
he cannot bear to speak of the II
deaths about which ! was anxious to
get details
He always referred to his imperial
victim as the "Autocrat," and a bale
full light came into his eyes every
time he used the word But he has
the same reluctance to speak of the
murder in the cellar as a man suf-
fering from partial insanity some