The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-02-20

tortuh farse..ng McNicans who knew
their man were prepared for the down
fall Of Madero.
C-n-"r L",aI 4" Madero.
The loyalty of the censor. who re-
mainpd AT the Government cable office
for hours after Madcro became a pris-
onrr and the furgetfulness Of Huerta
and Dsz tina, he news was being cen
sor~d prevented the world from know
ing early in the afternoon of Tufsds y
that the President had been seized and
/ that Mexico was under the iron fist of
a new dictator. The facts are simply
that the troops rose against Madero he
for" noon Al T. NJ. the mutincers
We're firmly in the saddle.
Gen. banquet in the morning Of
Tuesday tested the drift of military
opinion by making horid speech tu
! his own troops. H., had brought his
soldiers to the National Palace from the
British cemetery. where they had been
in bivouac ior two days. He had in
sisted that they be used as a palace
guard ana Msdero had not dared to
refuse, The General told his soldiers
artillery fighting in the midst Of the
homes OF the people and that only the
obstlnacy and caprice of one man was
responsible for the slaughter Of brother
! by brother and father by son. He eX-
posed his design when he shouted that
the time had come to end the civil war
and called upon the officers of the
Twent"-n!nth Battalion to follow him
20 the Presidents private office in the
National Palace.
Ernesto Madero. the Presidents $ uncle.
received hint of what was forward
and fed from the palace. Diaz and
Huerta were searching the city for him
to-day. He may meet the fat. Of Gus
tavO Madero II he iS caught. as he
was hardly less unpopular than Gus
tavo Juan sanchez AzCona also man
aged to get away IN AN automobile
, a lew minutes before Blanaucts sol
diers rushed into the National Palace
I Two Of the Cabinet Ministers left the
palace and concealed themselves II was
considered likely that Ernesto Madero
/ Azcona and others who lied took refuge
al foreign Legations
Gen. Blanquets first move was 10
! send one of his most devoted followers
. Lieut. Col. RiverOl. to President Ma
dero with a formal demand for Ma
dcro's resignation
hiS~rOi shot Dead b> Nnd~ro.
: Lieut.. -tol Rivcrol entered the Pres.
id.nt's private office unaccompanicd
{ The President was signing papers and
was alone. Rivcrol brusquely expressed
. Blanquet's demand. The President drew
pistol and shot Riverol dead This
{ is the account given out ug the Hucrta-
3 DiaZ supporters.
BlanQuet and twenty officers of tn,
! Twenty ninth Battalion We're waiting
outside the private office. MaderO rushed
out and made his way to the Hall OF
the Ambassadors. Banquet and his
followers troOped into the great salon
and attempted to seize the President
II was then that Maderos advisers and
personal friends drew their pistols and
made unavailing resistance Major
lzquiera OF the Twenty ninth was shot
dead and several on each side We're
wounded The President furiously re.
preaching Banquet for his trcaChery
was hurried to prison. Banquet fol-
! lowed this arrest with the seizure OF
Cabinet Ministers and personal friends
OF the President
| Immediately after the arrest If tn.
| President and his brother Gen. Huerta
ana Gen. Banquet appropriated the pri.
,vate papers of Madero and came upon
a list Of prominent citizens that haG
been prescribed by the President Tn,
lis, was marked simply, Those whC
ought to die" and among the twenty.
two names were those OF Francisco
Leon de la Barra. the former provisional
President: Jesus Flores Magon. Manue
Cslero, Alberto Garcia Granadas anC
Dr. Vasquez Gomez. DE la Barra hac
incurred Madero's suspicion by attempt.
Ing to bring about a compromise las
week. Calero is the former Ambassador
TO the United States and the present
Senator, who said few weeks ago thai
at Madero's orders he had lied to tn,
United States Government. The dis.
cotery OF this list angered Huerta ant
Banquet and provoked them to extreme
severity. which reached its climax few
hours later when Gustavo Madero wa,
shot to death by the exercise of tbs
,trsgically ironica "ley de fuga," the
law Of the fugitives.
American Ambnssador Notified.
One Of the first political acts of tn,
|successful mutineers was the sending oi
a messenger to Henry Lane Wilson, The
American Amba ssador, with the news o.
the overthrow of the Government and &
request that the Ambassador mediat,
with Gen. DiaZ, Mr. Wilson had an IN
terview with Gen. Hucrta and consentcC
to act as mediator.
Huerta offered TO Diaz his support &