Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-10
HOW MADERO
DIED TOLD BY
EYEWITNESS
Only Spectator at Execution Of
Mexican President and Aide
Describes Staying.

NEW YORK. April 1O.-From per
haps the sole eyewitness, The Atlanta
Georgian, through its New York cor
respondent, to-day obtained the full
details of the assassination of Presi-
dent Francisco L. Madero and Vice
President Pine Suarez in Mexico City.
This eyewitness declared:
Pine Suarez was first shot down
by 9 file Of twelve soldiers.
Orders were then given to shoot
Madero.
The soldiers refused, whereupon
the officer in command of the de-
tail first struck Msdero over the
eye with his revolver and then put
the weapon to Madero's head and
blew out his brains.
"T saw the whole affair from be-
hind a dirt heap" said Jose Quevedo
The Georgian's informant
senior Quevedo was editor of The
Nueva Era, of Mexico City. His
newspaper plant was burned down on
orders from Huerta. and he has Joined
the Madero family in exile in the
United States.
Huerta Suddenly Turned.
Not the least important statement
by Senior Quevedo is that Huerta's
part in the conspiracy dates from an
evening As hours before Madero's ar
rest. on his return from conference
with United States Ambassador Hen
~ Lane Wilson.
Two days previously, in the pres
cnce of all the occupants of the pal
ace. Quevedo alleges Huerta had
sworn solemnly to give his life in the
cause of Madero.
Then. according to Senior Quevedo,
Ambassador Wilson sent for Huerta.
Returning from that conference.
Huerta sent from the palace all the
troops that had been engaged in the
defense and substituted for them the
forces Of General Banquet. who later
effected the capture OF Madero, Pine
Suarez and the entire Cabinet.
At the same time all civilians were
excluded from thu palace
Accuses Ambassador Wilson.
There is not a citizen of Mexico"
says Senior Quevedo. who does not
solemnly believe that Ambassador
Wilson, with Senior de la Barra, now
Foreign Minister under Huerta, was a
part of the junta which executed the
coup d'etat"
According to Senior ouevedo, the
twelve soldiers who acted at the exc
eution of Madsro and Pine Suarez
were later shot, in order that there
should be no living witnesses to the
affair. The major has since been pro-
NOTED to the rank of colonel.
Quevedo declares, moreover, that all
through the nine days fighting lead
ing up to the coup detat, there were
frequent truces, promoted. he says, by
Huerta, during which supplies were
carried TO Felix Diaz at the arsenal in
automobiles enveloped in American
flags.
As a close friend of Madero, Senior
Quevedo was in the palace during all
the fighting.
Disguised, He Saw Shooting.
on the day that the President was
made a prisoner" he said, Il was sent
out on mission by him. -When |
returned an hour later / was told by
friends not to enter the palace, be
cause Huerta had executed a coup
d'etat, and made the President. the
Vice President and all the Cabinet
prisoners.
Knowing from this that 1 was in
danger, too, as friend of the Pres
ident, ran to the house of a servant
of the Madero family, who lived on
the side of the penitentiary. There
! disguised myself as pelado. or
poor Indian, with big hat, false mus
tache and ragged clothes.
Il could only go out at night, be-
cause l was afraid of being arrested.
On the night of February % an auto
mobile came by the penitentiary while
] vas going out to visit my relatives.
In the automobile were President Ma