The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-03-27
SAYS MADER0 WAS
KILLED IN PALACE
MEXICO CITY PUBLISHER De.
cLARES HE WILL SHOW
PROOF TO THAT EFFECT.
SUAREZ STRANGLED, HE SAYS
Excoriates Ambassador Wilson for
Failing to Give Them Aid
His Statement
Follows.
SUAREZ STRANGLED, HE SAYS

San Francisco, March 22.-Colonel
Manuel Blanche Alcalde, publisher of
the New Era, a Mexico City newspa-
per generally regarded as the mouth
piece of the late President Maderos
administration, arrived here with the
assertion that he is ''in position to
prove" that Madero was shot to death
and that Vice President Suarez was
strangled in the national palace ON
the night of Feb. % and their bodies
taken to the prison in an automo-
bile.
Known at Washington.
Colonel Alcalde asserted. the news
Of Madero's fate was known in Wash
ington before the hour named in the
official version as the time of the al
legged attempt to rescue him.
LAS a matter of fact said he,
president Madero and Vice President
Suarez were killed between and 8
o'clock on the night of Feb 22 The
president was shot from behind and
the powder burned his neck. Suarez
was choked to death. His secretary,
l. cl lldIlNCA uC lu AlC6uCltl, paw lllC
body two days later and there were
finger marks on the throat. One eye,
had been forced from it's socket and;
the tongue protruded."
Colonel Alcalde was positive in his
assertion that Madame Madero had
told him there was no hope for her
husband, basing this fear on an inter-,
..1,c ..yyA hos
sador Wilson on the afternoon of
Feb. %.
MADAME Madero and Madame Sua
rez went to the ambassador to i'm
plore him to intercede for their hus-
bands lives" he said. II saw them
when they left the embassy and they
told him there was no hope. They
said Ambassador Wilson had express
ed to them his belief that the presi-
dent and vice president would be exc
cuted, as the Huertistas regarded
their deaths as necessary-for the
good of the country.
General Ascarade was in command
Of the guard that night I was told
by another officer of the guard that
it was he who slew Madero and Sua-
rez.'
Bitter in Criticism.
Bitter in his criticism of Ambas
sador Wilson, Colonel Alcalde de-
clared the American diplomat had de-
clined to intercede to save him from
arrest and death
81 had protected Is American fami-
lies in my school, the Tnternato Ma
cional" said he, where | commanded
800 soldiers, feeding the Americans
and housing them during the fighting
from Feb. 8 to 10. After the Huerta
COUP fearing arrest and execution, I
went to the ambassador and appealed
for his aid, in return for my protec-
ton 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
rushed to me With the information
that the American ambassador had
given card on which were the names
of my brother and myself to Secre-
tary Of the Interior Granados, and the
latter hard Immediately issued orders
for our arrest.
"This friend had overheard part of
a conversation between the ambassa-
dor and Granad0s, in which he said
the ambassador had said that my
brother and | We're in fear of arrest
Granados replied that we had escap-
ed his attention, but he would attend
to our cases at once, and the order
of arrest was issued.
Disguised as Laborer.
"My friend FASTENED to me, gave
me his purse, and urged me to fee
left Mexico City disguised as a track
laborer that night. My wife and
babies were disguised. Thanks to a
friendly train conductor we made our
way to Salina Cruz and embarked for
San Francisco"