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MADERO'S WIFE
PLEADS FOR HIM
8egS General Huerta to Spare
His Life.
THE CABINET TO DECIDE
Fear Execution Awaits Deposed Presi-
dent, Now Charged With Murder.
Ciaz to Run For President.

Diaz to Run For President.
Mexico City, Mex, Feb. 21. = TIL.
fate of Francisco /. Madero, the de
posed president of Mexico, hangs il
the balance.
It had been planned to exile hin
along with his family, but when ths
time arrived for his departure the new
government changed it's mind. Mans
fear he will share the fate of his
brother, who was shot on Wednes
day.
Sonora Madero visited the Office oil
General Huerta, who is now provis
ional president, and made a pitiful
plea for her husbands life. She was
! accompanied by Angelo Madero and
Mercedes Madero, two sisters of the
deposed executive.
! Soldiers on guard at Huerta's Office
refused admittance to Sonora Madern,
but Huerta, learning from an aide that
she wished to see him, ordered her to
be admitted. Quite unn wed, Huerta
asked Mrs. Madero what she desired.
With outfung arms and the tears
streaming from her eyes she cried:=
Spare my husband and you shall
have anything. You may have cur
property, our money and our promise.
to remain away from Mexico. Only
spare my husbands life. That is all {
ask"
THAT matter is under considera-
tion," replied Huerta in calm tones. IT
am not greater than the government
nor the law. If it is deemed expedient1
for the public good that your husband
should be executed, l could not inter
fere if wished"
Sonora Madero was led from the
room and departed from the building]
with her sisters-in-law, all weepingl
Historically.
Sonora Madero and the formerl
presidents two sisters and his aged
father, together with the family OIL
former Vice President Suarez, waitedQ
at the station ready to depart for Vera1
Cruz and thence for Europe. At thel
hour which had been nxed for depart
ture congress was still in sessa.n dlsst,
cussing the situation.
Sonora Madero and the rest of her
party of exiles had waited impatientlyl
for more than two hours, when theyl
were Informed by former Foreign Mini
lister Lascurian that the deposed
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Senior Lascurain declared that he
was unable to give any explanation
of the delay. Sonora Madero, fearing
the intentions of congress and General
Huerta in regard to her husband, wept
profusely.
Madero's case is to be left in the
hands of the new cabinet. He is now
the personal prisoner of General
Huerta, who was chosen provisional
president by congress. He refuses to
accept the responsibility.
General Huerta was in the point OF
permitting Madero and Suarez to-
leave the country, but was counselled
to delay action by close friends, who
considered it probable that Madero
would use his freedom to hatch new
plots. There appeared strong prob
ability that the appointment of a.
lunacy commission to examine him
would be urged as solution.
Madero's trial before the cabinet
will, it is said, find Francisco De La
Barra almost alone in counselling
clemency. Rodolfo Reyes, the minister
of justice, is likely to remember the
death of his father in the attack on
the palace and the high-handed man
ner in which he considers Madero had
treated him. With the EXCEPTION pos
sibly of two others, all the ministers
have personal grievances, thus max
ing the cabinet-jury scarcely friendly
one.
At the instigation of the govern
ment, Madero has been formally held
responsible for the death of Colonel
Riveroll, which occurred at the palace
at the time of Maderos arrest. Con-
ficting reports are in circulation re-
garding the slayer of Riveroll, but it
is officially stated that Madero shot
him.
Another execution took place. The
victim was Adolfo Basso, sixty years
old, superintendent of the national
palace for many years. Basso faced
The firing squad bravely. He laid bare
his breast to the riflemen, and his last
words were "Viva MeXico!"
Felix Diaz will enter the race for
the presidency in the general cleo
ton. Probably Huerta will not run
against him. One reason why Diaz
made no effort to secure the provis-
ional presidency for himself was his
wish to be entirely free to organize
and direct his party in the coming
nanlnaion