The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-03-14

cret service has reported that other
tortures much worse than those in
the Madero statement were inflicted
upon the unfortunate president and
his brother, and others because OF
their loyalty to the 5MadSo admins
tration,"
These tortures, it is stated, were
inflicted with the consent If not at
the actual direction of Gen. Nictoriano
Huerta, now the president of Mexico,
and until the day of Madero being
made a prisoner. supposedly one OF
his most loyal friends.
In addition to the gouging out of
eyes, cutting off of lips and other
atrocities, Gustavo Madero, these Sc
cret service agents say, was tor
tured in a manner almost beyond be-
lief with a red-hot iron poker. The
details of this part of the torture
inflicted upon Gustavo are absolutely
impossible of publication, so savage
and horrible are the facts.
No Effort to Spare Them.
When he turned against Francisco
Madero, Huerta, it is said, became
an enemy so bitter that there was
no indignity or torture that he made
the slightest effort to save the Ma
deros from suffering. 1t is even re-
ported that it was an officer of Hu-
erta's forces who handled the hot
iron used in making the death of Gus
tayo Madero as horrible as it was
possible to make it.
1t is not stated that Francisco Ma
dero suffered the tortures of the hot
iron. but he did suffer other tortures
that while not so terrible probably
were nevertheless as inhuman and
savage in their conception.
Pine Saurez, the murdered vice
president, was likewise the victim
of the inhuman anger of the mad
dened Huerta- Diaz partisans.
The Huerta administration was Of
ficially cognizant of every detail OF
the acts of the men who tortured
the Maderos, yet the government de-
liberately and knowingly issued a
statement that the deaths were met
with under the "ley fuga" or the claw
of flight" of Mexico, when, as a mat
ter of fact, neither Francisco or
Gustavo ever had a single chance and
they could not have crawled even a
few feet had any avenue of escape
been open to them.
As for Gustavo, the poor fellow
was doomed from the moment that
Huerta by subterfuge borrowed his
pistol and his tortures were not long
in beginning and they lasted up to
the last breath in his dying body, so
it is said here.
Disquietng information.
Now as to conditions, not only in
Mexico City, but in the republic of
Mexico generally, it can be stated
that the information now in posses
sion of the Wilson administration is
of the most dsquieting kind. From
one end of the land to the other the
country is in a state of great unrest,
and it is said that the hope of any
rest is most remote.
In little towns, persons who are
captured by either the reVolutionists
or the government troops are sub
jecled to indignity and torture. This
recalls a story told some time ago
by an American employed in man
ago1iai capacity by some of the Ma
derO interests.
This man said that in a certain
smal! city not far from the Ameri-
can border, the jefe politico, who is
the big law officer in every Mexican
town, was captured by insurrectos
anu HIS DOuy vi hSSCu IN Ohtoh '''o
streets into the town plaza. The man
was then subjected to torture such
as it seems only certain Mexicans
can inflict, and in his dying condi-
ton his wife and daughters were
sent for and made to spit upon the
body of the husband and father.
Out in the state Of Lower Califor-
MIA, Mexico, some months ago, three
Americans employed in a mining
camp were killed. One of these
Americans was the manager of the
company store. The bodies were
thrown into the cutters and left
there to decay A report was made
of the outrage to the representative
of the company in New York and by
this man brought to the attention OF
then Secretary of Satte Knox.
A few weeks later another letter