Evening star., 1924-05-16
LAST DAYS AND DEATH
OF THE RUSSIAN CAR
How Family Was Shot Death and Bodies Destroyed by
Fire and Acid

| were allowed to come and hold seey-
| ice in their rooms.
satisfied with Abdiev, and new COM
mandant was appointed. Jacob Yu-
| rovsky by name. He was forty years
| old and the son of a dealer in second
! hand metal. He had lived for some
! time in the United States, and despite
| his name he was declared to be a
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shop and lived with his wife and
| three children. During the war he
| assistant
| Fierce New Jailer.
| Yourovsky was to become the regi-
eide in chief. He was high up in the
councils of the Ekaterinburg reds, a
commissar of justice and member
of the presedium (the executive). He
was much harder and stricter than
| Abdiev.
The Ural council constantly de-
hated what to do with Nicholas. One
section was in favor of killing him
and increasingly urged the others to
consent.
when he was car he killed the
workers by the hundreds Of thou
sands, choking, shooting and hanging
| them He even shot down peasants
when they asked for his help. Now
| it's his turn.
| They tried to make Moscow order
the execution, but Moscow refused.
Finally, however, the Extremists won
the consent of the rest OF the Urai
| council. Nicholas was to die. The
presedium was ordered to carry out
| the sentence and it entrusted a
workman. Petr Zakharovitch. with
the task of arranging the necessary
details Petr gloated over his task.
He would get rid of them all SO
| thoroughly. he swore, that no cne
would be able to find a trace. He OBJ
tanned three iron cylinders of sulphu-
ric acid and a number of cans of
kerosene, He would burn the bodies
| first. and eat up what was left with
| the acid.
die was reached late in June. BY
mid-July events were happening to
hurry things on. The power or the
RolshevistS was being threatened.
bellion. The Czechoslovak armies
were pushing on. Let there be much
more delay and Nicholas might
mount his throne again.
Summoned for the End.
On July 10 the little boy who play
ed with the cZarevitch was sent on
and told not to come back. Late In
the evening of Jnly 10, ABOUT ND
night by soviet time, Hurovsky en-
tered the Romanovs rooms, and toid
them to make ready for immediate
departure. They were TO be moved
elsewhere. They might take their
doctor. the sailor nurse and the maid
With them. An hour later they were
summoned downstairs. The emperor
led the way, carrying his SON He was
dressed in an old. shabby army Gni-
form, without decorations and his
boots were down at the heei. Eoilo~.
ing him came the empress, then the
daughters, and after tle1n Dr. Bot
kin gr. haired and stout, the sa1lcr
nurse. - Anna Demidova. stout, Dig
and very fair. Anna was carrying
pillow for the cIarevltch anu soine
Outside they could hear the noise
of an automobile engine, running
with clutch out and without exnaust.
Although they did not know 1t, the
engine was running to crown ue
noise of the bullets and their cries;
The impatiev mansion is on a nil
and the back entrance to the street
goes through a cellar. When tne
party reached this cellar, an archeo
and good sized room, some one shout
ed TO them to stand against the far
ther wall. There was chair theie
and Nicholas put the sick boy on 1t.
Plain, Brutal Slaughter.
Four men, leaders of the reds, with
Yuroysky at their head, entered the
cellar. They were all armed with
Nagan revolvers, the heavy RUSSIAN
army weapon. Behind them were SOL
diers from the cheka. armed with
rifles. The soldiers kept mostly In
Yurovsky and his comrades had
evidently been drinking, to nerve
themselves for the occasion. Yurov-
sky carried in his left hand paper,
the order of the presedium OF the
Ural council decreeing the death OF
Nicholas.
You Romanovs have been SEN
fenced" he shouted. There is no
hope for you. You all have to die"
The empress and one of her daugh-
ters fell on their knees and crossed
themselves.
Nicholas seemed as though he could
not understand.