The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-20
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SHOT AS HE RAN.
GustavO MaderO Begged Pit
eOusly for His Life.
Most Hated Man in Mexico
Clever CRATER.

Mexico City. Feb. 20.-When Gustavo
Madero was told that he would be exc
cuted he was in terrible fright. He
begged piteously for his life and tried
to bribe his guards by PROMISING un-
told wealth to them if they would per-
nit him to escape. Finally when he
was being led to the VIII against which
he was to stand he fell on his knees
and wept and pleaded for his life.
Suddenly he jumped up ind ran in
ap attempt to gain his freedom, but
before he had taken many steps he was
brought down by eighteen pistol She is
hitting him, making Sc wounds.
The body now lies on a couch in the
arsenal where it has been viewed by
hundreds.
The Ley Cel fuego'' is a pleasant old
Mexican custom of taking a prisoner
from one place to another and killing
him on the way, the report being made
that the prisoner attempted to escape.
1t is an easy way of execution without
the process of law and thousands have
been put away by this route.
MexicO's Most Hated Man.
New York, Feb. 20.-When Gustavo
Madero. brother of the deposed and
imprisoned Francisco, was shot dead in
the arsenal at Mexico City at a mo-
ment when he turned his back to his
guard, the 'most hated man in Mexico"
met the fate that has long been pre-
dicted for him.
Gustavo MaCero was universally re-
garded as the arch CRATER of Mexico.
He possessed a large share of the for
tune of the Madero family, estimated
at $75, 900 900. but his portion of this es-
tate was said to be only a tithe of what
he stole from the country's treasury.
He was undeniably the directing power
of the Madero administra ton, but even
to his brother Francisco, the poet and
dno1i list he Of hofr, f1Je
counsellor. GuStavoS name had often
been mentioned in connection with
graver crimes than misdirecting the fl
nances of his country to his own bene-
fl and he had often been threatened
with death.
He Lined His Own Pockets.
Madero was a popular figure in New
York and Washington while Francisco
was getting his revolution under way in
the state of Chihuahua two years ago.
His good looks fine education and
lavish entertainments won him popu-
larity in the society of both cities. ut
while in New York he was suspected of
playing a double game. Here for the
purpose of financing his brothers revo-
luton, he was said to have taken full
advantage of the opportunity to line
his own pockets in return for his prom
iseS of future gain to certain Broad
way promoters.
Madero left New York in March, 1911,
going with his family to San Antonio,
to take charge of the rebel junta there.
Later he Joined Francisco in the field
and when the latter triumphed over
Porfirio Diaz, Gustavo moved to the
capital with him and began his high
handed play with Mexico's finances.
One act of Gustavo's that the enc
mics of the Maderos never forgave was
his forcing to the front of Jose Pine
Suarez to take the position of vice.
president in place of DR.. Vasquez
Gomez who at that time was a popu- r
hero as a result of his part in the Ma
dero revolution, but who incurred the
displeasure of Gustavo by differing
with some of Franciscos policies.
This act marked the beginning of the
opposition to the Madero administra-
ton.
Young Madero Quits School.
Ithaca, n. Y, Feb. 20.-Evanisto
Madero, a student at Cornell, heart
broken at the execution of his brother,
GuStavo, will leave the university and
join his brothers widow in Monterey
in few days.
The university will give him his di-
plOma by special dispensation.