The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-02-25
PLACE MADERO'S
BODY IN TOMB
Remains Of SauTez Taken to
Spanish Cemetery.
AMBASSADORS HOLD AL0OF
The Diplomatic Corps Will Not Reeog-
nize New Government Until Assassi-
nations Are Satisfactorily Explained.

nations Are Satisfactorily Explained
Mexico City, Feb. 25.-The govern
nent issued a further explanation ol
the circumstances of the killing ol
Francisco l. Madero and Pine Suarez.
The new statement was undoubted
ly prompted by the discovery that tne
ex-president and ex-vice president
were shot to death in the rear OF the
peniten,iary, not in the Gale lie Cum
berri, at some distance from the
prison.
General Huerta and his advisers say
now that two attacks were made by
Maderis, as, and that after Major Juan
Cardenas, of the Seventh Rurales, and
his men had rushed Madero and
Suarez past the first band of attack
ers, they were again fired on by 9
band that had taken position behind
the penitentiary.
1t was in the second encounter, the
government explains, that Madero and
Suarez attempted to break away from
the rulares and to escape to their
friends and were killed.
The people are disposed to accept
the governments statements. The
merciless acts of the dictatorship,
which is only thinly clothed by the
forms of a provisional presidency and
civil authority, have had their effect.
Murmurs of resentment have been si-
fenced. All Mexico is beginning to un-
derstand that there is a death penalty
for disaffection.
AS was intimated by Ambassador
Wilson, the members of the diplomatic
corps will not recognize the new gov
ernment even socially until the as as
sinations have been satisfactorily ex-
planned by legal investigations. The
ambassadors and ministers declined to
take luncheon with General Huerta
and the foreign minister.
The machinery of the mill 'ary and
civil courts was put in operation by
the presidents orders. Military Pros
ecuting Attorney Vasquez Tagle took
the oath as military judge and began
taking evidence as to the circum-
stances of the killing. Civil Prosecut-
ing Attorney Castellanos sought for
witnesses to the tragedy and institut-
ed an inquiry Independent Of the mill
tary investigation. Members of the
diplomatic corps will be furnished with
copies of all of the proceedings before
the prosecutors. s Ss
The body of General Madero was
-yo -, Off a Ernnnh
cemetery. Theer was small crowd
present, but no disorder occurred
None of the members of the family
was present, Ernesto Madero, the late
presidents uncle, having left for Vera
Cruz, and Sonora Madero being in se-
clusion with the father and sister Of
Francisco Madero.
Permission has been given the Ma
dero family to remove the body to
San Pedro de Los Pinos, the family
home in Coahuila. The government
contennla' es the paying of full mill
tary and civil honors when the body is
taken from the capital.
The body of the murdered ex-vfce
president was taken to the Spanish
cemetery. The government has been
asked to permit its removal to Yucca
tan, where Suarez was governor un.fl
he was elevated to the vice presi-
dency.
The autopsy revealed, according to
an announcement by government OIL
cials, that two bulle's had entered the
back of Madero's head and that Pine
Suarez had received eight wounds in
the breast and abdomen.
Juan Sanchez Azcona, who was Ma
dero's private secretary, and who was
captured several days ago while flee
ing toward Vera Cruz, was released
from custody. Imprisoned Maderistas
took hope from this circumstance, be-
lieving that General Huerta is relax
ing the seevrity of his rule.
There is an unmistakable tendency
among the people of the capital to bow
to the new regime and to give 1t an
opportunity of enforcing order in the
republic. The government, hin ing
that the death of Madero has had
pacifying effect, announced that re-
ports from the provinces indicate thai
resistance is dying out. The capital is
heavily garrisoned and thousands Of
troops partol the streets. General D.az
and General Huerta appear to be IN
perfect agreement and united In a
arogram to crush all opposition. Their
rule is absolute and the government is
a military dictatorship.