ROMANOFFS’ MURDER

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11657, 23 October 1923, Page 5

ROMANOFFS’ MURDER

GRUESOME TALE UNFOLDED

BODIES BURNED; HEADS TAKEN TO MOSCOW. PRESERVED IN ALCOHOL. By Telegraph.—Press A«su.—CopvHghfr Australian atd N.Z. C&ble Association. (Received October 22. P.iO p.m.) PARIS. October 22. Details of tho assassination of the Russian Imperial Family are in a book by the Russian general. l>ictrix. whom General Koltchak ordered to investigate the murder. According to the book, after the masFncre at- Ekaterinburg, the bodies were carried to a forest ten miles away and thrown into a disused mine. On the following day orders were received from Moscow to recover the bodies and destroy them with sulphuric acid and fire. Dictrix says tho heads wore decapitated by a surgeon, placed in drums of* alcohol. and taken to Moscow by Golostchokov in a saloon car, Golostchokov sending a telegram to the Soviet lenders saying he was bringing document® which would interest the central Cheka When Golostcliokov’s fellow-passengers questioned him. he replied that the drums contained samples of war material. Dietrix does not know what became of the ghastly luggage after it was delivered at Sverlov’s house. The Grand Duchess Elizabeth, who was the Empress's sister, the Grand Duke jSerge, and three sone of the Grand Duke Constantine were murdered the night after the Czar, being thrown alive into a deep abandoned iron-mine near Alapaiersk. The Grand Duke Michael, the Czar's brother, was shot in a forest near Perm.