RUSSIAN ROYAL FAMILY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18999, 23 October 1923, Page 10

RUSSIAN ROYAL FAMILY

STORY OF THE MURDERS. CIRCUMSTANTIAL DETAILS. Prcaa Association —By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS. October 22. ' (Received Oct. 22, at 9.10 p.m.) - Details of the assassination of the Russian Imperial family are disclosed in a book by General Dietrix, a Russian whom Marshal Koltchak ordered to investigate the murder. The book says that after the massacre at Ekaterinburg the bodies were carried fb a forest 10 miles awajr and thrown into a disused mine. On the following day orders were received from Moscow to recbveg the bodies and destroy them wit(i sulphuric acid and fire. General Dietrix .that the heads were decapitated by a burgeon and placed in drums of alcohol. They were taken to Moscow by. Golostchokovi in a saloon, Golostchokovi sending a telegram to the Soviet leaders saying that, he was bringing documents which would interest the central Cheka. When Golostchokovi’s fellow-passengers questioned him he replied that the drums contained samples of war material. General 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 Serge, and the three sons of the Grand Duke Constantine were murdered the night after the Czar, being thrown alive into a deep abandoned iron mine near Alapaievsk. The Grand Duke Michael, the Czar’s brother, was shot in the forest near Perm.—A. and N.Z. Cable.