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SAYS MADERO
WAS MURDERED
Mexican Refugee Says He
Can Prove Il.
CRIT|CISES U. S. AMBASSADOR
Declares He Was Betrayed by Wilson,,
Who Refused to lntercede to save
Him From Arrest and Death.


San Francisco, March 81. - Colonel
Manuel Blanche Alcade, publisher Oh
the New Era, a Mexico City neWspa
per generally regarded as the NOUN
piece of the late President Madero
administration, arrived here with the
assertion that he is in a position &c
prove" that Madero was shot to death
and that Vice President Suarez was
strangled to death in the national pal
ace on the night of Feb. 20, and tna'
their bodies were taken to the PRISON
in an automobile.
The reported assault by the guard,
said Alcado, was merely farclca
ruse and a part OF the plot. Ii the
automobile was fred upon the guards
were only pouring lead into the deao
bodies of the president and vice presi
dent, who had been murdered in the
palace hours before
Colonel Alcade described himself al
an intimate friend of Madero. His mis-
sion in the United States, he said
would be to expose plot which hao
brought about the Diaz uprising ano
the deaths of Madero and Suarez.
Accompanied by his wife, two small
children and his brother, Joaquian, an
army captain, Alcade fed from Mex
leo City, Feb. %, taking an obscure
route to Salina Cruz.
The party disguised themselves a:
peasants On reaching the west coast
port they remained in seclusion fol
twelve days, believing they would be
killed If discovered by agents OF The
new government. They chartered
barge to reach Acapulco. whence the,
took passage with other refugees.
Colonel Alcade asserted the news o.
Madero's fate was known in Washing
ton before the hour named in the OF
fetal version as the time OF the Al
legged attempt to rescue him.
AS a matter of fact" said Colone
AIcade, President Madero and Vice
President Suarez we're killed between
8 and $50 O'Clock, Mexico City time
on the night of Feb. %. The presiden
was shot from behind and the powder
burned his neck. Suarez was choket
to death. His secretary, Fernandez
De La Reguera, saw the body two
days later and there were finger marks
on the throat. One eye had been fore
ed from its socket and the tongue pro
truded.'
Colonel Alcade was positive in hi:
assertion that Madame Madero hat
told him there was no hope for he
husband, basing this fear on an inter
view she had with American Ambassa
dor Wilson on the afternoon OF Feb
%.
Madame Madero and Madame
Suarez went together to the ambas
sador to implore him to intercede To-
their husbands lives" he said. Il saw
them when they left the embassy, ant
they told me there was no hope. The!
said Ambassador Wilson had express
ed to them his DeIfer that the pres
dent and vice president would be
ecuted, as the Huertistas regard
their deaths as necessary for the goo
of the country.
General Ascarade was in command
Of the guard that night. | was told b!
another officer of the guard that 1t was
he who slew Madero and Suarez."
Bitter in his cri ,icism of Ambassa
dor Wilson, Colonel Alcade declared
the American diplomat had declined
to intercede TO save him from arres
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