Semi-weekly herald., 1914-04-06

one of Mexlco's Dioouies' pei
ods. The blood spilling of open war
ARE is not so repulsive as the BLOOD
citing of the assassin or the cold
secret murder and burial OF
non in hidden out-of-the way places.
How many leading men Of Mexico
II various parties, have silently DIS
from sight, cannot now be
The whole thing is
subject that no one in Mexico CITY
3ares to mention. The newspaper men
who would attempt to ferret out the
mystery would be subjected immedi-
ately to article No. 3S, of the consti-
tuition which provides that any for
eigner who writes anything against
shall be Immediately deported !
But the truth is slowly coming out
through opponents OF
Huerta and though some of their
stories, secretly given to the writer
may re oyerdrawn, nevertheless they
are interesting as indicating the hor-
ror with which the average citizen of
Mexico City views Huerta's doings.
The story of the assassination of
Serapio Hendon, however, is known
to be true. He was graduate Of
Cornell University in the United
States and member of the house
of deputies, opposed to Huerta. One
evening in August of 1918, he was
dinner guest at the mansion of an
American society woman. During the
dinner he said, "I know that / will
drop from sight some day, l fully
expect it." At II o'clock he started
for home, but was seized on the way.
The next day rurale offered for
sale to DR.. Emilio Cardenas, in the
village of Tlanepantla, pair of spec
tacles in q case which bore Rendon's
initials. DR.. Cardenas, it happened,
was a friend of Rendon. He pur-
chased the spectacles and the case
and questioned the rurale. "They
belonged to a man killed last night"
said the rurale. eve were ordered
to shoot him, but he tried to fight
and so we gave him 20 bullets"
Where Rendon was buried is not
known; his family does not dare to
seek information.
The story of the assassination of
Belisario Dominguez surpassed be-
lief of the man who doesn't know
Mexico. Dominguez, a senator, had
openly opposed Huerta. Mexicans
here believe the story that Dominguez
who was forced to go to a hospital
for slight illness was under the in
fluence of chloroform for minor op-
GRAFTON when word came to the pro-
prietor of the hospital, DR.. Urrutia,
who was then Huerta's right hand
man, that Dominguez should be ex-
ecuted. The unconscious man, it is
said, was taken into a vacant lot in
the dead of night and shot. Domin-
guez was wealthy and talented.
Rafael Villacorta and Alfonso Es-
calona, two newspaper reporters who
sympathized with Madero, met their
death in a corn field in the suburbs
of Mexico City. Huerta it is said,
when he first became dictator sought
the whereabouts of various Madero
senator's. He tried to locate Bordes
Mangel, leading Maderista, and
discovered that the two newspaper re-
porters, Villacorta and Escalona had
recently interviewed Mangel. The
newspaper men were arrested and
ordered to tell where Mangel might
be found. Escalona refused and was
summarily sentenced to be shot. Vii
lacorta, it is said, gave the facts on
promise of being released. On June
% Francisco Sharvez, the chief of
police, sent the two men, in the care
of guards to a suburban town. On
the way their guards said to them:
We're going to let you go. You run
into that corn field and we'll say YOU
got away from u.s."
The young fellows, both delighted
jumped from the automobile in which
they were riding and, waving their
hands in "goodbyes," dashed for the
cornfield. They had. not gone 100
feet before their guards shot them
both dead. In official parlance, they
had been given the ''ley de fuga," OF
law of flight"
In the grim San Juan de Ulua pris-
on at Vera Cruz there now lies Mrs
Guadalupe Guile de Saldano, with q
new born baby girl. Her crime is
that she is the cousin to Adolfo Drive
q rebel. One evening last January
the police entered the Saldano home
during the dinner hour and took Sal
dano and his wife off to the peniten.
tiary. An hour later she was taken
to the train for Vera Cruz. Her des-
tination was Quintana Roo, a district
which is Mexico's Siberia. Women
who go there are fed to the lust of
convict-soldiers; Quintana Roo is a
name of horror to the men and wo-