Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-03-21
PUBLISHER OF \ MENICO CITY
NEWSPAPER GIVES START
LING VERSION.
.BLAMES US. AMBASSADOR
Says Wilson. Refused 10 intcrcedc
When Told of Crime - No
Peace for Years.


Colonel Manual Alcade, publisher
OF the New Era, Mexico City news
paper generally regarded as the
mouthpiece of the late President
Madero 3 administration. arrived
here today with the assertion that he
'is in position to prove" that Ma
dero was shot to death and that Vice
| President Saurez was strangled In
the national palace on the night OF
February % and their bodies taken
to prison in an automobiel.
Colonel Alcade asserted the news
! of Madero's fate was known in
Washington before the hour named
in the official version as the tlmo of
the alleged attempt to rescue him.
"As matter of fact" said he
| President Madero and Vice Presi-
dent Saurez were killed between
and 9:30 o'clock, Mexico City time,
on the night OF February 20. The
president was shot from behind and
the powder burned his neck. Suarez
was choked to death. His secretary,
| Fernandez De La Reguera, saw the
| body two days later and there were
| finger marks on the throat. one eye
had been forced from its socket and
the tongue protruded."
Colonel Alcade was positive in his
assertion that Madame Madero had
told him there was no hope for her
husband, basIng this fear on an inter-
view she had with American Ambas
sador Wilson on the afternoon OF
| February %.
Madames Madero and SaureZ went
| together to the ambassador to inn
| plore him to intereede for their hus-
bands lives" he said. Il saw them
when they left the embassy and they
told me there was no hope. They
said Ambassador Wilson had eX-
pressed to them the belief that the
belief that the president and vice
| president would be executed, as the
Huertistas regarded their deaths as
for the good of the country.
General Ascarade was in COM
mand of the guard at night. | was
| told by another officer of the guard
| tndt IL was ne WHO SltN haucio anu
Saurez."
Bitter in his criticism of Ambas-
sador Wilson, Colonel Alcade declar-
ed the American diplomat had de-
clned to intercede to save him form
arrest and death.
| 81 had protected fifteen American
families in my school, the lnternado
| Nacional" he said where | COM
| manded 800 soldiers, feeding the
Americans and housing them during
all the fighting from February TO
lis. After the IIuerta coup, fearing
arrest and execution. | went TO the
ambassador and appealed for his aid,
in return for my protection of his
people. He told me at first he could
do nothing Finally he asked me to
write my name on a card with that
of my brother. Soon afterward a
friend Of mine rushed to me with the
information that the American am
| bassador had given a card on which
| were the names of my brother and
| myself to Secretary of the Interior
Granados and the latter had imme-
diately issued orders for our arrest
This friend had overheard part Of a
conversation between Mr.. Wilson and
Granados in which he said the am
bassador had said that my brother
and me were in fear of arrest. Gra-
nados replied that we had escaped his
attention but he would attend to our
| cases at once and the order of arrest
was issued.
My friend fastened to me, gave
me his purse and urged me to flee.
left Mexico City disguised as track
laborcr at 10 O'Clock that night. Ny
thanks to friendly train conductor
we made our way to Salina Cruz and
embarked for San Francisco.
Colonel Alcade said Mexico viii
know no peace for years.