The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-03-01
NEW RULERS MURDER MADER0
Former President and Vice President Are Slain-Both Shot
To Death While Being Taken Through Streets Under
Cuard-United State VIII Not Intervene

Sonora Madero was weeping silently. In
the eyes of Mercedes Madero. however, no
tears glistened. Her thick, black hair had
fallen over her shoulders. Her radiant dark
eyes flashed FIRE. Her emotion was tigerish
and there lowered about her the embodiment
of vengeance. Standing between the two
women whose husbands had been slaughtered,
she faced the officials who barred the way to
the mortuary to say:
"Cowardsl Ass2ssinsT' she cried, her shrieks
ringing through the prison.
The officers before her stared impassively.
Several of them had faced her before-but
under such entirely different circumstances
faced her when, smiling and happy. she had
extended to them q welcoming hand as hos
tess in her brothers drawing room. They
murmured something about duty.
"Youl" she flashed back scornfully. 1.-THE
/ men who fred on a defenseless man You
and your supporting officers are traitors"
Officers Shamed
Cowed and shamed. they stood before the
snraged woman. No effort was made to re-
move her. No attempt was made even to
silence her.
why could you not let him liver cried
Senorits Madero. "You swore allegiance to
him. You called him friend. And you have
murdered him.
Her words echoed along the marble CORR
doris. They must even have penetrated out
side the walls TO where the crowd was stand
ing silently paying tribute to the dead.
Drawing the two widows to her side with an
arm about each, Mercedes Madero fixed her
piercing eyes upon the group of officers who
were huddled against the opposite wall.
See your work. she cried finally. "Mexi-
can gentlemen and soldiers who make widows
to satisfy their thirst for blood"
The arrival of the Spanish minister and the
japanese charge d'affaires put an end to the
dramatic scene. The three women were led
tenderly away.
While the autopsy was In progress the off
GERS explained to the diplomats it would be
impossible for any one to see the dead. Later
they said the request Of the two widows would
be complied with.
1t seems that this simple request is really to
be complied with, provided the funeral which
is given to the slain officials be transformations
and not calculated to stir up fresh trouble for
the dictatorship.
Victims Entombed
Mexico City, February ga faint ''Viva
Madero," from a small group of poems huddled
with heads barred outside the frowning gates
of the penitentiary was heard to-day as the
final plaudits for the man who less than two
years ago rode triumphant through a city that
strewed his path with flowers and Numbered
his name from the housetops.
Federal soldiers with fixed bayonets dis
persed the poems, and the body of Madero, in
a plain wooden casket, was borne on the
shoulders of soldiers to the French cemetery,
where it was placed in its temporary resting
place in a mausoleum.
Shortly afterward the body Of Suarez was
removed to the Spanish cemetery and tenn
porarily entombed.
1t was learned late tonight that the gov.
eminent has refused permission for the trans
ter of the bodies of Madero and Suarez, re-
spectfully, to Coahuila and Yucatan, giving
as a reason that it does not desire to afford the
people of these States an excuse for demon
strations.
Explanations are Lame
1t is difficult to explain the death of Ma
dero and Suarez. and the immediate dissection
of the bodies is p~roblematical in view of the
developments of to-day.
The bodies of the two murdered statesmen
were found lying in the rear of the p%eniten.
tiary. Red stains marked the spot. This
fact being incompatible with the first official
version Of the affair, the government to-day
promulgated a new official version. The first
version had stated that the bodies lay at a
point two-thirds of the way between the
palace and the prison.
Now it is explained that the automobiles
ran along the side of the road and that Ma.
dero and Suarez jumped out and were running
when they were caught between the fire of
the rural guard escorting the prisoners and
their assailants. In this way the government
accounts for wounds being inflicted on the
victims from front and back.
communicating DOCn Oh THESE versions, now
ever, is that of an eyewitness of the tragedy.
False Announcement
The announcement had gone forth early in
the evening that Madero and Suarez already
had been conveyed to the penitentiary. Two
hours before the shooting the populace, or
those of the people who remained in the streets,
believed that Madero was at last assured of a
fair trial. He had been taken to the prison
for safer keeping.
Before IL o'clock the lights of the palace
went out and it was believed that the day and
its events had been officially ended.
: There is one man, however. who fingered
near the palace, viewing the magnificent build
ing and its battle scars and watching the
s~entries.
Suddenly, q few minutes after IL o'clock,
the doors of the war department swung open
and and two automobiles sped into the Gale
)Mondae.