six o'clock
Pytkan was shot in the stomach and in the throat and I saw him lying on the floor in the room . Khokhriakov and his men were shaking the rest of his life out of him , asking where the E. and the jewelry were , but all that Pytkan could say was `` they were taken away . '' No one could make out what really had happened and who had shot him ; some said that they went away in trucks , yet , in the evening , some that a detachment sent by the Soviet took them secretly out , some said aeroplanes . All were wrong , for Philip had just come back and the trucks were in place , no one came into the Ipatiev 's house as I was on guard , and there had been no aeroplanes since six o'clock . Pytkan was almost dead when Khokhriakov finally got from him that the family had been shot and taken away -- and then he began to expire . Later the German appeared and chased us all away , -- he sent for his assistant , but they could not find him . The family disappeared , -- it is true ; there was no trace of them .