MURDER OF THE ROMANOFFS.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15046, 14 April 1919, Page 5

MURDER OF THE ROMANOFFS.

FATE ESTABLISHED BY INVESTIGATION.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable 'Association.)

(Eeceived April 13, 11.5 p.m.)

New York, April 2

The "New York World's" Vladivostok correspondent reports that Admiral Kqltchak ordered an official investigation into the death of the Romanoffs, It was definitely learned that the Czar and his family were murdered in their, house at Ekaterinburg. Yurodski, the house commandant, awakened the family at 2 o'clock in the morning and told them that they must die immediately. Yurodski fired the first revolver shot, a-nd a volley followed. Where the bullets missed their mark bayonets were used.