Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-19
Says Her Husband Was Slain
as He Lay Asleep
in Bed.
SUPPORTS HER STORY
WITH DETAILED PHOTOS
Declares That Who Accepts Huerta
Accepts His Acts-Hopes to In
fuence Those in Authority.

With this exclamation in regard to the
pressure that is being brought to bear
on the United States to recognize the
present government in Mexico. Sc
nora Madero. widow Of the slain Pres
ident of that country. today told q re-
porter for The Star a circumstantial
story Of the killing OF her husband and
the late Vice President OF Mexico. Pine
Suarez. February q, when Huerta and
Diaz overthrow Madero.
Sonora Madero, who arrived in Wash
ington a few days ego to visit her
brother, H. Perez Romero. is at the
Burlington apartments. where she con-
sented today to tell for the first time in
Washington her story OF the tragedy.
Supported by intimate. detailed photo
graphs Of the apartments in which she
says the late President OF Mexico was
assassinated. Sonora Madero's recital Of
the tragic events was made by her in
the hope that II will be taken account Of
In Washington by those In authority
here who are now considering what
course the United States shall pursue
In regard to Huerta.
Photographs Startling Proofs.
The fact remains" Sonora Madero
said. that at the moment when my
husband met his death he was un-
clothed. These photographs ex-
hibited them-''show here his clothing.
his hat his shoes and all his other ap-
parel. Here is a photograph of the
rooms of the superintendent of the Ma
tional Palace In Mexico City, where he
was held captive when he was arrested,
and on a wallhook is seen his hat on
the floor his shoes and his other clothing
In various other places in the room.
IF he was shot, while trying to es-
cape, In the yard or near the peniren-
tiary, while he was being taken to prison.
as Huerta and Diaz claim, how comes il
that he did not dress himself before
starting on that alleged trip from the
national palace to the penitentiary?
He was slain in the rooms of the SUI
perintendent OF the palace while he was
asleep. and while he was still in the bed,
and there are dozens OF pieces of circum-
the repeated boast In the streets of Mex
leo by Cardenas, then captain. now col
onel, that he is the man who did the
killing. This man has even exhibited
the knife with which he stabbed my
husband. and the revolver with which he
struck him on the head while he was
asleep.
No Bed Until Last Day.
"Gustavo Madero. my brother-in-l law.
had been slain at the arsenal four days
before. When my husband was arrested
and conducted to the rooms OF the SUI
perintendent of the national palace. we
feared the worst. 1 tried to see him; they
food, and they would not let me, until
the last day. For the first couple of
days Of his Imprisonment he had no bed
to sleep on. and they would not let me
that day. evidently, the details of the
plot had been concluded, and they wanted
him to have bed. and to be asleep that
night in 1T. with Pine Suarez.
The tragedy occurred about half past
10 or II o'clock. the night of February
whispered all over Mexico City. my
friends told me later, although the Of
fetal report said that he did not die,
was not shot, until or 3 o'clock the
next morning.
He had been arrested February Is, the
same day that Gustavo Madero was as
sassinated at the arsenal. Four days
later the men who constituted the qua I'd
over my husband were changed. The
men of the 18th Battalion were sent to
the palace, Blanquet's men. They
changed the two individuals of the guard
outside the doors of my husbands apart
ment every five minutes. in fear, l sup
pose, that he might persuade them &c
I0tuTH 10 IiclT dlGSldICe, Ut tndt tDey
might overhear some details OF the plot
ting.
Detained at Railway Station.
"They had promised to send US to Vera
Cruz, on a special train, so that We
might leave the country. l packed a
trunk and had it ready. The train was
to leave at 8 o'clock the night of the
21st, but although I waited at the rail-
road depot until or 3 o'clock in the
morning, they would not let me go. They
kept putting me off. evading me. with
this, that or the other excuse. Then they
sent and got my trunk and took it back
to the palace, to search for papers. and
l went back there.
although Cardenas boasts, with the
revolver and the knife as evidence. that
he killed my husband, he has not been
arrested. Who killed the vice president
! do not know. l believe they were both
asleep when the assassins entered the
room Senior Suarez, l think. must have
aroused, and gone to my husbands aid
for his face and neck showed signs of
his having been choked, those who saw
his body told me.
When / was informed of my husband 5
death l tried to go to his body. They re-
fused to let me see 1t. l was put off
from time to time They said they want
ed to perform an autopsy. What for?
What good was an autopsy? L then
asked permission to have a surgeon. a
friend of mine present at the autopsy.
I was refused. L asked permission to