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...told them that because of the approaching White armies it had been decided to move them farther away; the cars would soon be there. Besides the Tsar, the Tsaritsa, the Tsarevich and the four Grand Duchesses, there were a doctor, a valet, a chef and a parlormaid (holding a pillow that contained the Imperial jewels...
Soon the executioners entered. Yurovsky announced the sentence of death, cut short the Tsar's agonized protest with a bullet from his revolver. The Cheka gunmen opened fire. Last to fall was the parlormaid, who shielded herself with the jewel-packed pillow, ran screaming back & forth. She was killed with bayonets. When they examined the bodies they found that the Grand Duchess Anastasia had merely fainted. When she had been shot, the executioners wrapped the bodies in cloth, loaded them on a truck and carried them ten miles to an abandoned mine, where they were dismembered, burnt on gasoline...
...respectable quiet of East Side Cleveland one night last week an old man ate poisoned mushrooms, died in wriggling agony. A merchant was smothered with a bed pillow and his corpse dragged into a cellar. A prostitute let out a blood-chilling scream as she was pushed to her death in an icy black lake. Yet as the heroine of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (pronounced Muhzjensk), the woman responsible for these three atrocious murders was really a gentle soul whom only the sternest moralist would blame for her crimes...
...Bronx, N. Y., Mrs. Shirley Lippmann gave orders for her newborn son to be inducted into the Hebrew faith according to prescribed ritual. Thirty minutes later hospital attendants laid on her pillow a baby boy neatly circumcised. Moaned Mrs. Lippmann: "That's not my Michael." Shrieked Mrs. Alfred Lyman from the next bed: "That's my Robert." Because the operation "irreparably altered their son's physical condition, repugnantly and contrary to the tenets of the Roman Catholic faith," Catholic Mr. and Mrs. Lyman brought suit for $75,000 against the Jewish hospital director, the Jewish mohel...
...sides with the business as against the governmental executive : "The man ager's restless pillow has done more to advance the practical arts than all the legislation upon the statute books...