Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1913-02-26
EX.PRES|DENT MEXICO SHOT.
GENERAL HUERTA, TRAITOR,
RESP0NSIBL E FOR IT.
Almost the Entire Worft Aroused Over the
couirdlJ Act. Says U. S. Should Act.

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coxlrdly Act. Says U. S. Should Act.
Mexico'City, Feb. 28.-Francis
co 1. Madero and Jose Pin
suarez, deposed President an,
Vice President, respectively o
the Mexican Republic, were sho
and killed today when an attemp
was made to rescue them from al
automobile that was transferring
them to the penitentisry.
News of the death of Madere
and Suarez was confirmed by
General Huerta. Previously i,
had been announced that tLt
transfer from the Palace to the
pepitentiary had been made sue
cessfully.
Two of the party that attacked
the automobile were killed iu the
exchange of shots.
Large crowds assembled at tie
scene Of the killing. White won
en- wept and there were signs of
disapproval, the city generally is
quiet. The guards at the peni-
tentlary have been increased and
no one il permitted to sec the
bodies of the SLAIN men.
Major Oardagas and two other
officers who we're in charge of the
guard of rurales csc orting the
automobile, have been lmprison.
ed pending an investigation by
the Attorney General.
The bodies of Madero and Suarez
are being held in the penitentisry.
K slatlves and friends are making
efforts to recover them.
General Huerta in an official
statement said that when the at.
tempt to rescue them was made
Madero aud Suarez tried TO es-
cape, "The Government" be
continues, "promises that society
shall be fully satisfied as to the
facts in the case. The command.
ers of the elcort are now under
arrest"
The attempt to rescue Msdero
and suarsz, the official version
says, was made about midnight
when the party esoorting the
prisoners was approaching the
penitentiary.
In contrast to the widow, whose
grief was of pltiab silently
character, expressed in sobs, Mer-
cedes Msdero, . beautiful young
woman, educated in Paris, who
has been brilliant leader Of
society since the revolution Of
1910, was dry-eyed and tigsrish
in her emotions. By the side Of
the two women whose husbands
had been killed, the girl hurled
accusations at the officers who
barred the entrance.
"Oowards?" "Assassins?" she
called them, her voice pitched
high. The officers stared impss'
sively.
"You7 The men who fred or
q defenseless man? You and youl
superior officers are traitors7"
No effort was made to remov:
the women nor did the Office at.
tempt to silence them. Senora
Madero continued weeping and
the girl did not cease her hystsri
cal TRADE until the arrival of the
Spanish Minister and the Japanes'
charge, who came to offer thsil
services.
The Minister spoke with tht
officers in charge but was tole
that on account of the autopsy i
would be imp ossible for any ont
to see the bodies. Later in tn
day they said the request woul'
be complied with. The Diplomat
then conducted the women ava
from tho penitentiary.
Madero's father and Rafael Hal
nandez, former Minister of th
Interior, and other friends mad
efforts early in the day to reoove
the bodies and it was said thi
afternoon that the America
Ambassador Henry Lane Wilso
had interseted himself and secul
ed the promise of Minister de
Barra that the bodies should