The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-21
Mexican Editor Makes Star.
Ting Charges.
Declares MaderO Was Murdered
in Palace.

San Francisco, Cal, March I'll
Colonel Manuel Blanque Alcalde, pub
Usher of the New Era, a Mexico City
newspaper, generally regarded as the
mouthpiece of the late President Ma
dero's administration, arrived here
with the assertion that he lis IN
position to prove that Madero was
stabbed to death and that Vice Presi-
dent Suarez was strangled in the ma
tfonal 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 a part of the plot. If the
automobile was fired upon the guards
were only pouring lead into the dead
bodies of the president and vice presi-
dent, who were murdered in the palace
hours before
as an intimate friend of Madero. His
mission in this country, he said, would
be to expose the plot which brought
about the Diaz uprising and the al
legged assassination of Madero and
Suarez. Accompanied by his wife and
two small children and his brother,
JOAQUIN, an army captain, Alcalde
fled from Mexico City, February Is,
Cruz The party disguised them
selves as peasants. On reaching the
west coast port the party remained
for twelve days in seclusion, believing
agents of the new government. They
chartered a barge to reach Acapulco,
upon which they took passage with
other refugees.
Colonel Alcalde asserted the news
of Madero's fate was known in Wash
tngton before the hour named in the
official version as the time of the al
legged attempt to rescue him.
AS a matter of fact said he,
president Madero and Vice President
Suarez were killed between and $50
o'clock, the City of Mexico time, 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"
Colonel Alcalde was positive in his
assertion that Nine. Madero had told
him there was no hope for her hus-
band, basing this fear on an interview
she had with American Ambassador
Wilson the afternoon of February %
"Wilson Wouldn't Help"
Nine. Madero and Mime. Suarez went
together to the ambassador to impIore
him to intercede for their husbands,
lives" he said. IT saw them when thew
left the embassy and they told me
there was no hope. They said Am
bassador Wilson had expressed to
them MS belief that the president and
vice president would be put to death,
as the Huertistas regarded their deaths
as necessary for the good of the
country.
General Ascarade was in command
of the guard that night. 1t was told by
another officer of the guard that it
was he who slew Madero and Suarez"
Bitter in his criticism of Ambassador
Wilson, Colonel Alcalde declared the
American diplomat had declined to in
tercede to save him from arrest and
death.
Il had protected fifteen American
families in my school, the Internade
Nacional," he said, where command
ed three hundred soldiers, feeding the
Americans and housing them through
out all the fighting from February 9
to Is. After the Huerta coup, fearing
arrest and death. I went to the am
bassador and appealed for his aid in
return for my protection of his people.
He told me at first he could do nothing
Finally he asked me to write my name
on a card, with that of my brother.
''Soon afterward a friend of mine rush
ed to me with the information that the
American ambassador had given a card
on which were the names of my brother
and myself to Secretary of the Interior
Granados and the latter Immediately had
issued orders for our arrest. This friend
had overheard part of a conversation be-
tween the ambassador and Granados, in
which he said the ambassador had said
that my brother and 1 were in fear of
arrest.
'-Granados replied that we had escaped
his attention but he would attend to our
cases at once and the order of arrest was
issued
MY friend fastened to me. gave me his
purse and urged me to fee"
Resigns Governorship.
Monterey, March 21.-General GERONIMO
Trevino has resigned the governorship OF
the state of Nuevo Leon.
He gave no explanation. In the alb
sence of other reasons, his resignation is
taken as indicating merely lack of SYM
pathy with Provisional President Huerta.
HeIDed Kill Gonzales
FL PaSo, March 21.-Mexicans ar
irving at Juarez from the south today
declared they were a part of a firing
squad which executed Gonzales, gov
ernor of Chihuahua, under the Ma
dero government, a fortnight ago
Gonzales was killed under the no
torious fugitive law these Next
cans declare.