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 being persecuted by the said Metropolitan Platon Rozhdestvensky.

That some of their acquaintances advised him not to sign the bank account where they thought the money was not in danger, but that they considered that if the detendant Platon would succeed in getting hold of their account, it would be easy for them to prove it as soon as theey reached New York, as the money was deposited by the deponent's husband in the Cathedral at 15 East 97th Street.

That her husband believed that he would receive the money due him excepting, of course, the part which he had already received.

That deponent was also present when her husband signed the first part of exhibit "D" and that her husband demanded the money which, he was promised, would be paid him and which was not refunded;

That two days later she was present when her husband signed the second part of exhibit "D" and haw that, as soon as he signed it, soldiers rushed into the room, gave the deponent a severe beating and took her husband away. They demanded that the deponent also sign, which she flatly refused to do;

That no money was paid her husband at the time while she was attacked, and as a result threw herself out of the window from the second story into the street whence the people who assembled under the window sent her to the hospital;

That a few days later, having regained her consciousness the deponent learned that her two children had been hacked to death by the leaders of the infuriated crowd of Germans and Haidamacks (Ukrainian soldiers) who rushed into deponent's apartment;

That these leaders were Lubansky and Semashkevitch who were employed by Metropolitan Platon and Hetman Skoropadsky;

That later on, when various governments replaced one another in Kiev, they were in the habit of releasing prisoners and that deponent's husband escaped from prison and when Skoropadsky re-entered the city her husband had to go into hiding again;

That subsequently she rejoined her husband and, after the troubles and tribulations they had undergone, they went to Poland and succeeded in obtaining a passport to the United States, where they arrievd, in the Port of New York, on November 1, 1921.

Subscribed and sworn to before a Notary Public.

208 East 13th Street, N. Y.

July 20, 1922.