The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-21
PRESIDENT MADERO
M|CT|M OF MURDER,
SAYS COL. ALCALDE
Publisher Gives Out Sensa-
tional Story on Mexican
Situation
SUAREZ STRANGLED
IN NATIONAL PALACE
Colonel Alcalde Declares President
and Vice President of Mexico
We're Killed on February %.
Criticises Wilson

Criticises Wilson
San Francisco, March Cool. Manuel
Blanche Alcalde, publisher of the New
Era, a Mexico City newspaper, generally
regarded as the mouthpiece of the late
President Madero's administration, ar
rived here today with the assertion that
he is in position to prove" that Ma
Zero was shot to death and that Vice
President suarez was strangled in the
national palace on the night of February
% and their bodies taken TO the prison
in an automobile
THE reported assault by the guard. :
and a part of the plot. When the auto
mobile was fred upon the guards were
only pouring lead into the dead bodies
of the president and vice president, who
were murdered in the palace hours be-
fore
ultimate i EltHu vi MdutIo
Colonel Alcalde described himself 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 deaths of Madero
and Suarez.
Accompanied by his wife two small
children and his brother, Joaquian. an
army captain, Alcalde led from Mexico
City February %, taking an obscure route
to Salina Cruz. The party disguised
themselves as peasants on reaching the
west coast port they remained in seclu-
sion Il days. believing they would be
killed If discovered by agents of the new
government. They chartered a barge to
reach Acapulco, whence they took pas
sage with other refugees
Colonel Alealde asserted the news of
Madero's fate was known in Washing
ton before tile hour named in the Of
ficial version a the time of the al
legged attempt to rescue him
AS a matter of fact" said he Pres
ident Madero and Vice President Suarez
were killed between and $50 o'clock,
MeNieo City time, ON the night of Feb
r8ars - The President was shot from
behind and the powder burned his neck
Suarez was clfoked to death His sec
retarN Fernandez De La Reguara. saW
the body two days later and there were
finger marks on the throat One eye
had been forced from its socket and
the tongue protruded"
Positive i'm Assertions
Colonel Alcalde was positive in his
assertion that Madame Madero had told
him there was no hope for her hus-
band, basing this fear on an interview
L. \
Wilson on the afternoon of Febru-
airy %.
Madame Madero and Madame Suarez
went together to the ambassador to
implore him to intercede for their hus-
bands lives" he said. 81 saw them
when they left the embassay and they
told me there was no hope. They said
Ambassador Wilson had expressed his
belief that the President and vice pres
ident would be executed as the Huer-
tistas regarded their deaths as for the
good of the country.
General Ascarade was in command of
the guard that night. / was told by
another officer of the guard that 1t
was he who slew Madero and Suarez.''
Criticises Wilson
Bitter in his criticism of Ambassador
Wilson, Colonel Alcalde declared the
tercede to save him from arrest and
death.
II had protected Is American fam
lilies in my school, the Internado Ma
cional." said he, where I commanded
800 soldiers, feeding the Americans and
housing them during all the fighting
from February 0 to 49, After the
Huerta coup, fearing arrest and exc
cution, went to the ambassador and
70. lie oil In, ,-of,, 60
protection of his people. He told me
at first he could no 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 a card
on which were the names of my broth
err and myself to Secretary of the In
terror Granados and the latter had i'm
mediately issued orders for arrest. This
friend had overheard part of con-
versation between the ambassador and
Granados In which he said the ambas-
sador had said that my brother and
were in fear of arrest. Granados re-
plied that we had escaped his atten-
tion but he would attend to our cases
at once and the order of arrest was
issued.
Went to San Francisco
"My friend fastened to me, gave me
his purse and urged me to flee. | lef;
Mexico city disguised as a track la
borer at 10 o'clock that night. My wife
and babies vere disguised Thanks to
a friendly train conductor. we made our
way to Salna Cruz and embarked for
San Francisco
colonel Alcalde said Mexico will
know no peace for years.
.Diaz wants to be President" he
asserted, but Huerta will never quit
the palace until he is driven out by
successful revolutionists. lie tells Diaz
there will be no election until he has
peace throughout the country.
Huerta has not the slightest intention
of carrying out his pact with Diaz and
the other conspirators."
Alcalde asserts that papers have been
smuggled out of Mexico which will
assist in proving his charges He said
these papers will reach him at Los
Angeles for which city he left to-
night.