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Timaru Herald, Issue 170299, 18 August 1920, Page 7

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MURDER OF CZAR AND FAMILY

DETAILS SAID TO BE AUTHENTIC.

By Electric Telegraph—Copji-ght. Australian ana is .ii Ca.mu A-sail. Received 7.30 p.m., August 17tti. IiOivDON, August L 6. The "Standard" wiure purports to bo linal and conclusive details I of the murder of the Czar and has ianuly at Jikatenuburg m I9LS. Tlie facts were cohec'-cd by Ueneral Diederiehs, 'commanacr ot tiio Czcclio-.'sio-valuun Siberian troops, wlio caretnlly investigated the circumstances. 'the victims were harsnly treated while prisoners. At two m the morning or July 17th, a liussian named You-ow-sky, with. ton. l/stis and iivo Soviet. Deputies, all Jews, entered the rooms where the victims were guarded. Yourowsky, addressing tlie Czar, s'ud: "Your lite is limshed." The Czar replied: "I am ready." "While two ladies and Dr Botkine made the fe'ign oi tlie cross, and tiirce Grand l)uchcsscs, fainted, the Czarevitch remained rtnuamg„ his eyes seeming as if they would .start from their sockets. He appeared lost to reason. lourowslcy gave a signal, fired the first shot irit.li a revolver, and the Czar fell dead. Furious killing followed. Those who did not succumb to revolver snots were killed with bayonets anri liutts of rifles. The Grand' Duchess Anastasia was the last stabbed dead with a bayonet. These facts -were proved by a priest and tlie wife of one of the murderers. The bodies were afterwards burnt, and what remained was thrown into a mine containing water. On the day following the Grand Duchess Fcdororna, the Grand Duke Sergius and his three song were executed at Alapaevka, and the bodies thrown into a mine