Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-04-22
MURDER OF MADERo
President and Vice President Assassi.
natec In Bed.

President and Vice President Assassi.
nateo In Bed.
A sensational story Of the manner In
which President Madero and Vice
President Pine Suarez Of Mexico were
put to death and Of how two rurales
who did the assassin's work on the d.
rect orders Of their superiors were
likewise slain in an effort to conceal
the evidence Of the major crime, was
brought to New Orleans last week by
Martias Oviedo, former private secre-
tary to President Madero, who escaped
from Mexico city and later Joined the
from Mexico City and later Joined the
ranza at Coahuila.
Senior Oviedo asserted that careful
investigation Of the killing Of Madero
and Pine Suarez had revealed that
both, while prisoners Of General HUI
erta In the national palace, had been
given narcotics in their food and shot
to death while unconscious in their
beds in a room on the ground floor OF
the palace. Their bodies were soon
thereafter placed in an automobile and
taken to a spot near the penitentiary,
he said, where the Huerta government
asserted they were killed by guards
when an effort was made to liberate
them.
"The two rurales who killed Madero
and Suarez acted on direct orders OF
Capt. Cardenas Of the rurale corps who
was afterwards promoted by Huerta
to the position Of colonel and given a
large sum of money for the part he
played in the deed" declared Oviedo
TN an effort to bolster up the story
which 1t was previously planned to give
to the public, and to rid themselves OF
two witnesses who might prove them
selves dangerous, the two rurales who
actually committed the crime, were TAX
en- out and shot to death just outside
the penitentiary wall. Cardenas after
wards asserted that the blood Of these
two tools Of the assassin was the blood
Of Madero and Saurez.
President Madero died almost i'm
mediately after he was shot," said Owl
edo, but the vice president did not
die from the effects Of tbs shots. The
shock Of the pistol bullets revived him
from his stupor and he tried to raise
himself and look at his murderer. Inn
mediately he was seized about the
throat and strangled to death, his ton
que protruding from his mouth. Marks
on his body gave physical evidence In
confederation of the detailed story
which was secured from persons who
were but a few feet away when tn.
murders were committed"
Oviedo declared that hundreds OF
people in Mexico City knew the true
facts concerning the killing Of Madero
and Pine Suarez but even Mexicans
who have escaped from the country
fear to tell what they know because II
would mean the prompt execution o1
relatives whom President Huerta Ii
holding prisoners with the constant
threat Of death hovering over them.
mot even Americans and other for
eigners In Mexico dare express them.
selves truthfully on such questions" nc
added, for fear Of the confiscation OF
destruction of their property, or, per.
haps, a worse fate. Scores Of people
have been put to death right In the
capital since the beginning Of the HUI
erta era of misrule and in many In.
stances the colossal crime which
brought the death penalty upon them
consisted solely in their lack Of SYM
pathy with a government founded upon
treachery and assassination and pledg-
ed to tyrrany and the suppression OF
personal and political liberty