Evening star., 1924-05-15
BY r. A. MACKENZIE.
Correspondents of The Star and Chicago
Daily News.)
Part III.

Part III.
MOSCOW, April 25.-Beelbrodov
fiercely demanded that Yakovlev
bring out his prisoners. Despite the
cries of the crowd, Yakovlev refused
either to bring them out or to let the
Ekaterinburg men in to them. He
had his soldiers behind him. There
came a quick advance of the crowd.
Yakovlev and his soldiers were
brushed aside and Nicholas, his wife
and his daughter were hauled outside.
Two automobiles were waiting. The
prisoners were hurried into one of
these Didkovsky accompanying them.
The two other communists followed
in the second car.
The destination Of the party was
the former home of a rich merchant.
Ipatiev, a handsome two-story, mod
ern house in the best quarter of the
city, with stables and garden. 1t was
renamed the House of Special Purpose
Dom Osobogo Naznacheniaia). Five
rooms on the upper floor were allotted
to the RomanoyS. Workmen guards
were placed at once all around on the
balcony outside their sitting room. in
.,
street, and in the house opposite. One
guard with a machine gun occupied
the turret of the house, so that he
could sweep the roadways with his
fire.
The windows of the rooms occupied
by the family were whitened over
from the outside. The prisoners We're
warned that if they tried to open a
window they would be shot. A few
hours later strong palisade was
tad nd ha
Next day the doctor and servants
were allowed to join the imperial cap
tives. Prince Dolgurukov, however,
was thrown into prison, where he
died.
Moscow in n BackdOwn.
Yakovlev had a stormy interview
with the Ura council. His soldiers
were disarmed and thrown into prison
and he was told to clear out. Mos
COW, strangely enough, meekly ac-
cepted this insult to its plenipoten-
tiary, and a few weeks later sent a
where they were conveniently kept at
Alapaevk until it was time to kill
them
The guards over the emperor were
at first all rough laborers from local
factories. They were joined shortly
afterward by a number of men from
the local heka (political police) head
quarters. These latter said that they
were old Chekoslovak prisoners who
had elected to join the bolshevists:
One of the workmen guards. by
name Letemin, had been sentenced to
four years Imprisonment in 1911 for
outraging young girl. Pavel Abbey,
commandant of the house and jailer-
years old. He had formerly worked
in a local factory. He had the repu-
tation of being a drunkard and his
actions toward the family showed that
he was. They never knew what mood
he would be in. Sometimes he was
almost maudlin. condescending to sit
and eat with them. More often he
was brutal, brusque and savage.
Tell them to go to hell" was his
reply when one hot summer evening
they begged to be allowed to open a
window.
Submitted to New Indignity.
Soon after the arrival of the cap
tdveS there came an evening when
Abdiev revealed his most brutal mood.
he discovered that the personal ef-
fects Of the imperial family and their
servants had never been touched and
at once ordered a strict search of
them. Nicholas was willing to sub
init; his wife flung back an angry re-
fusal. Never, never would she per-
NIT such an indignity.
Nicholas walked up and down the
room, not knowing what to do. For
once even his habitual calm was dis
turbed.
Damn itr' he said up to now they
have at least behaved as gentlemen
But the former ones were men of
the world. These"
Abdiev interrupted him fiercely.
Hold your tongue, Nikolasha." he
shouted. Remember that you are not
in your palace at Tsarsk oe-Selo now.
You are my prisoner. Keep civil
tongue in your head or I'll take you
away from your family and give you
a dose of hard labor"
'Nikolasha" mode of address of
contemptuous familiarity.
They had to submit The guards
found nothing on Nicholas or the en-
press. The Grand Duchess Marie had
a few rubles, equal to 81, which some
one had pressed in her hand as she
was leaving Tobolsk. That was con-
fscated.
PitifuI Letter From Marie.
In some of the papers which exam
ined 1 came across a letter from the
Grand Duchess Marie, written to her
brother and sisters at TobolSk (but
never delivered) telling of this incident.
I was permitted tc see the letter for
only few minutes. 1t filled four pages
of foreign note paper, and was written
in a firm hand-the handwriting of a
person of poise and character. l repro
duce it as well as 1 can from memory:
Yesterday a very disagreeable thing