The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-01-31

and her eldest daughter were present,
and were making the sign of the Cross.
After the car had been done TO death
paveI MedVedyefT, assistant to Your
ollsky. aud the Let's killed the entire
family aud also the court retinDe The
bodies OF the murdered were placed in
q motortruck and sent away he said
Later the police officers took away
from Kdzma Let6mln about one hunel
dred different articles, all havingpbe-
longed to the cars family, and OBJ
famed, according TO him. some time
during tile cleaning Of the house after
Tie murder Others were taken from
his brother, Alehail, red guard gio
Woman Confirms Story. eli 3
4 similar picture Of the murder is
drawn by the wife OF Medvedyef, the
commandments assistant confirming
her husbands participation
ptokopi Kuthienkoff, red guard,
who served In the honse guard, told
that he was In the Working Mems club
Of the Verk- Issetsk works July IS or
10, and that the president OF the eH-
.ecutiye committee of the soviet OF
worknens and soldiers deputies.
Serge Mnllshkin. the military commits
saire. Peter Yermakoff ana other
prominent members of the bolsheviki
were conducting secret conversation
Kukhtenkoft said he caught the SEN
tence:
There were thirteen Of them alto
getber. 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 Leyat.
nlkh, partin ana Kostaustakuff took
part IN the funeral OF the royal family.
Their talk was boastful, he said and
they told that her victims had been
dressed in civilian clothing, in which
was skillfuIly Sewed many valuables.
He also said he heard one Of the speak
ers deny that the heir had died at
Toboisk, as reported because he was
one of their victims,
Bodies Buried and Exhumed.
From their conversation he also
learned that the slain first were buried
Just outside Of Ekaternburg, but that
laip their bodies were distributed to
other places further away.
General .Dietricks special report
concludes as follows:
THE correspondence will be sub
miited 10 examination for the purpose
OF establishing the participation in
The death of the ex.cmperor Of the local
and central soviet authorities. Besides
this, In the near future one of the prin-
cinal parties 10 the murder, in fact,
The direct murderer of the car, Pavel
Medvedyeh. who has only just been
detained, will be examined.
"The committee of inquiry attaches
great Importance TO the cross.examIna.
: tlon Of this witness. since, in all prob.
ability, all the circumstances OF the
death Of the former car and his fam.
fly viii be made clear. 1t is probable,
also, that clues as to The whereabouts
of the corpses may be obtained, the
search for which. notwithstanding all
( the measures taken, has furnished no
/ results. AZ the present moment the
business of investigation has been' in
trusted TO the examining magistrate
for special cases, Mr., SoRoloff. Also
the necessary steps have been taken to
preserve all articles of the ex-emperor
and family WHICH were found at the
time of the search and which in the
| aggregate have an historical value"