The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-03-19

and We're making the sign of the Cross.
After the car had been done to death
fuvel Medvedyeff. assistant to Your
"tf>ky. and the Let's killed the entire
family and also the court rctlnue. The
bodies of the murdered We're placed in
Il m"tortruck and sent away. he said.
Later the police officers took away
from KuZna Letemn about one hun
dred different articles. all having be-
longed to the cars family. and oh
tanned. according I" him. some time
during the cleaning of the house after
the murder. Others We're taken from
his brother MehaiI. a red guard.
Woman Confirms Story.
A similar picture of the murder is
drawn by the wife Of Medve,lyeff. the
commandment assistant confirming
her husbands participation.
Prokop Kuthienkoff. red guard,
, who served in the house guard. told
that he was in the Working Mems cl,h,
of the Eerk-lssetsk works July Is or
ID, and that the president of the ex-
ecutive committee of the soviet Of
worklnenS and soldiers deputies,
Serge Mnlishkin. the military commits
>nire. Peter lermakotf and other
prominent members of the bolsheviki
were conducting a secret conversation
Kukhtenkoff said he caught the SEN
tence:
."rlere were thirteen Of them alto
| gether, the thirteenth was the DOCTOR
AS they moved away. he followed
them and heard one of them say:
'This is the second day we have
been fussing. Yesterday we buried
them. and today we have to rebury
them"
From this he deduced that Levat.
nikh. Partin and Kostaustnkuff took
part IN the funeral If the royal family.
Their talk was bOastful, he said, and
they told that their victims had been
dressed in civilian clothing. in which
was skillfully sewed many valuables.
He also said he heard one of the speak
er> deny that the heir had died at
Toboisk. as reported: because he was
one of their victims.
From their conversation he also
learned that the slain first were buried
just outside of Ekaternhurg. hut that
later their bodies We're distributed to
other places further away
General Dietrick's special report
concludes as follows:
| 1.-THE correspondence will be sub
mitted ~ examination for the purpose
of establishing the participation in
the death of the eN-emperor of the local
and central soviet authorities. Besides
this. in the near future one of the prin-
cipaI parties tn the murder in fact
the direct murderer of the car. Pavel
Mcdve'lyeiI. who has only just been
detained. will he examined
The committee Al inquiry attaches
great Importance to the cross-exumina-
t'"n at this witness. since. in all prob
ability. all the circumstances Of the
death of the former ear and his fam.
lily will be made clear. 1t is probable.
also. that clues as to the whereabouts
of the c"rpses may be obtained. the
search for which. Notwithstanding all
The measures taken. has furnished no
results. At the present moment the
business of Investigation has been in
trusted to the examining magistrate
for special cases. Mr.. SOkOlOff. Also
the necessary steps have been taken to
preserve all articles of the ex-emperor
and family which were found al the
time Of the search and which In the
aggregate have an historical yalue."