Evening star., 1924-05-14

quite clearly that they distrusted
Yakovlev, despite his mandate from
Moscow. They thought that he
might aid the escape of the prisoners
and so placed workman guards OIL
their own. across all roads, One grour
Of workmen reached a village and
proudly told their errand. The em-
peror might come that way. If he did
they would arrest him. The peasan is
listened and then rushed upon the
workers., disarmed them and threw
them into prison. killing two as les
son to the others. They still loved
their little father"
Reduced Party Tnkes the Road.
There is no railroad to Tobolsk
The nearest station Is Tiumen, nearly
sixty miles to the southwest. The
empress decided, after much hesita-
tion and many tears, that she must
accompany her husband. She would
take with her one daughter. the Grand
Duchess Marie, leaving the other three
to care for their brother. The party
drove out Of Tobolsk in rough coun-
try carts. The imperial suite was
smaller now, consisting of the old
family physician. DR.. Botkin: a valet
Chemudorov; a footman, Sedney, and
personal maid. Anna DemidoVa
called by the children Nuta- There
was still another who obtained per-
mission to join the party, the elderly
Prince Dolgurokov, a former officer
emperor, who had come to Siberia to
share his exile.
Anna Demidova had been chosen be-
cause the empress fraulein maid
of honor-was too old and feeble for
the hardships ahead. Anna a tall
fair Stnnt thlrtV wears
old, was an ordinary servant but
but rather aped the manners of her
employers. She dressed as well as
she could, laced very tightly and en-
phasiZed all the empress haught1ness
in dealing with the communist jailers
She did this so successfully that the
communists took her to be really one
of the aristocracy and when they de-
cided to kill the imperial family
thought that they would better kil
her, too, which they did.
Trying to Dodge Eknterinburg Reds
Yakovlev had with him a small de-
tachment of red troops. A special
train was waiting at Tiumen, and
when the party reached there Yakov-
lev produced his authority from the
government took possession or the
telegraph office and proceeded to get
into touch with Moscow. Learning
that preparations had been made to
stop him at Ekaterln DurS, ne re-
solved to strike eastward and made
a big detour through Omsk, joining
up with the southern-Ufa-iine
But spies of the Ekaterinburs
council had followed the party from
the moment it left Tobolsk. They
communicated with the Omsk work
ers, who sprang to arms. They sent
word that they would blow up the
train if it attempted to pass their
way. Yakovlev again got on the wire
to Moscow and was instructed to try
to make his way back through
Ekaterinburg.
1t was evening before the train
reached Ekaterinburg. There volun-
teer drivers seized the engine and
took it to station No. 2, where body
of armed workmen stood waiting. Al
their head were three men. The
leader was Beelbodorov, president OF
the Ural council, workman between
thirty and forty years old an ex-
treme and fanatical revolutionist
Next to him was Didkovsky, man
of very different type, scholar, VINO
had spent some time in exile in
Switzerland. Didkovsky left Ekaterin-
burg shortly afterward and had nc
part in later developments there He
is now rector of Ekaterinburg uni
versity. The third of the leaders was
n workman named Abdiev, chosen to
be the chief jailer.
Ito Be Continued Tumorruv.)