RUSSIA'S ROYALTIES
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE EXECUTIONS A WHOLESALE BUTCHERY B,v Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. February 14, 5.5 p.m.) Omsk, February 13. Confirmatory particulars show that tho royal executions as they were carried out were a wholesale butchery. Tho Tsar, Tsarina, Tsarevitch, and four princesses, a doctor, and a servant were tried in a email cellar beneath a'u Ekaterinburg residence. 1 As soon as sentence was pronounced the members of the revolutionary tribunal produced revolvers and ruthlessly slew the royalties,. who were kneeling and praying. Tho bodies were carted off in a motor lorry and buried in «n unknown spot. Tho Grand Duchess Anastasia was not killed- outright, and was battered to death with clubs. Tho next day the tribunal took tho Grand Duchess" Sergo and Princes John and Igor, and other relatives of tho royalties, and threw them down the shaft of it disused mine, bombs being hurled after them. ■ Some were drowned. and some wero killed. Princo Igor's body was subsequently found, and tno wounds had been bound with a shirt, indicating that ho had survived the water for somo time.—"The Times."
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 121, 15 February 1919, Page 9
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183RUSSIA'S ROYALTIES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 121, 15 February 1919, Page 9
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