The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-03-25
CHARGES MADERO
WAS MURDERED

Killed in National Palace, Says MeXi-
can EditOr.-Suarez Strangled to
Death.
San Francisco, Cal, March 20.-Col.
Manuel Blanche Alcalde, publisher OF
the New Era, a Mexico City newspaper,
generally regarded as the mouthpiece
of the late President Madero's admin
istration, arrived here today with the
assertion that he "is in position to
prove" that Madero was hot to death,
and that Vice President Suarez was
strangled in the National Palace on the
night of February %, and their bodies
taken to the prison in an automobile.
"The reported assault by the guard, .
said Alcalde, "was merely a farcical
ruse and part of the plot When the
automobile was fired upon guards were
only pouring lead into the dead bodies
of the president and vice president,
who were murdered in the palace hours
before"
Says Will Expose Plot.
Col. Alcaide described himself as an
intimate friend of Madero. His mis-
sion in this country, he said, would be
to expose the plot which brought about
the Diaz uprising and the deaths OF
Madero and Suarez.
Accompanied by his wife, two small
children and his brother, Joaquin, an
army captain, Alcaide fed from Mexico
City, February %, taking an obscure
route to Salina Cruz. The party dis
guised themselves as peasants. On
reaching the west coast port they re-
mained in seclusion twelve days, be-
lieving they would be killed if discoV-
cred by agents of the new government
They chartered barge to reach Tea
pulco, whence they took passage with
other refugees.
Time of Alleged Murders.
Coz. Aalcalde asserted the news OF
Madero's fate was known in Washing
ton before the hour named in the oftl-
cial version as the time of the alleged
attempt to rescue him.
Gas matter of fact" said he,
president Madero and Vice President
Suarez were killed between and $50
o'clock, Mexico City time, on the night
of February %. 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 force
from it's socket and the tongue pro-
truded."
Col. Alcalde was positive in his as
sertion that Madame Mhdero had told
him there was no hope for her hus-
band, basing this fear on AZ interview
she had with American Ambassador
Wilson on the afternoon of February
q.
Sonora Madero Abandoned Hope.
Madame Madero and Madame
Suarez went together to the ambassa-
dor to implore him to intercede for
their husbands 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 his belief that the
president and vice president would be
executed, as the Huertalistas regarded
their deaths for the good of the coun-
try.
Gen. Ascords was in command OF
the guard that night. was told Dy
another officer of the guard that it was
he who slew Madero and Suarez.
Bitter in his criticism of Ambassa-
dor Wilson, Col. Alcalde declared the
American diplomat had declined to in
tercede to save him from arrest and
death.
81 had protected fifteen American
families in my school, the Internado
Nacional," said he,. where command
ed 300 soldiers feeding the Americans
and housing them during all the fight
ing from February to l8.
Co., IE;IsoD PnfuScd Aid