From that day onward they were on
guard in the interior?the exterior posts
were guarded by Russians.
"The "house for special use' had become
a dependency of the Tchresv.vtchaika,
and the life of the prisoners now
became one long martyrdom.
"On Sunday, July 14. Yourovsky sent
for a priest. Father Storojev,, and allowed
a religious service. The prisoners
had been condemned to die, and religious
consolation could not be denied
them.
"A little after midnight Yourovsky
entered the room occupied by the im|
perial family, awakened them and their
i followers and told them to follow him.
Til* pretext given was that he must
take them away, that the town was in
a state of revolt."
QiUi&rd then tells of the actual execution,
facts of which have been fully
related in The New Vor.K Herald. His
story bears out absolutely the McCul|
lagh Interview with the executioner.
Then Gllliard says:
"When all was over the commissaries
j took the jewels off tlioir victims and the
: bodies were transported on sheets and
j stretchers to the motor lorry which was
I at the door of the yard in the wooden
I enclosure.
"They had to hurry before day broke.
The funeral cortege passed through the
sleeping town in the direction of the forest.
Commissary Vaganov rode at it*
head, as all encounters must bo avoided.
Just as the clearing was reached he saw
a cart approaching with some peasants
in It. It was a woman of the village of
Koptlaki, who left home In the night
with her son and daughter-in-law to
sell some fish In the town. They were
ordered to turn back at once.
Find Jewel* on Women'* Bodle*.
