The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-07
MADERO'S MURDERER ENDS LIFE
 IN GUATEMALA CITY WHEN FACING
 , DEPORTATION 10 STAND TRIAL

GUATEMALA CITY. Jan. 7.-The suicide of the former Mexican gen ,rel. Francisco Cardenas, in the Central Plada of this city on Nov. 27. is believed here to have ended l all doubt as to who was the real slayer of the Mexican President, Francisco I. Madero. Cardenas had told The Associated Press cores pondent that he commanded thel guard by whom Madeira was shot but did not explain why he ordered the shooting.
 Madero, with the ViceProsident, Pho Suarcd, w2s shot to death on the night of February 22, 1913, while being conveyed under a guard of armed soldiers from his place of imprisonment in the Ma tional Palace to the penitent1ary In Mexico City. The usual report was rendered to the authorities that the prisoners had tried to make their eecape and that the soldiers, in order to prevent them getting away, were obliged to shoot tEcm.
 Imprisonment Ordered.
 Not long after the event, Fran cisco Cardenas appeared ir Guate- n2la. Within a very short time, he was arrested and imprisoned by orders of Estrada Cabrera, the Presi- dent then of this country. It is not clear just on what grounds Cabrera ordered the imprisonment of Car dcnas The government of Cabrera vas not on particularly friendly re- lations with that of Carranza who had succeeded General Huerta as President of Mexico. It is thought that the Guatemalan President was aware that Cardenas was wanted by the Carranza Government, and pur- ported turning him over to the Mexican authorities in exchange for certain Cuatemalans in Merico who might be conspiring against Cab reras government However. this may be, no exchange was made and Cardenas was kept a prisoner for neGrly seven years.
 During the revolution of last April when the dictator. Cabrera, was Oyerthrown, Carden2s was talk cn from the penitentiary and brought into this city under guard of troops. Colonel Belteton Iointed him out to The Associated Press correspondent as the man who had killed Madero.
 Commanded Guard.
 Cardenas was man Of medium height, robust in appearance with rc rnd, ballet-like head, thin black mustache and thin black hair part cd in ringlets over his forehead. Questioned as to the killing of Ma dero he dismissed the subject with the simple statement that he was in command of the guard that did the killing. He offered no eXplana- tion why he Lad commanded the guard to shoot the prisoners, but was more intent on relating his own misadventures, stating that he had been in prison nearly eight years, r'ore ttan two of which had been In solitary confinement. If this part of his statemnt is correct, he must have fled from Mexico shortly after the murders were committed. and when Huerta was stil in power
 Given Important Post.
 Nlth the change of government in Guatemala last April. Cardenas was set free and given an important official position in the penitentiary. with a chance to make good, but it is said that he accepted money for granting certain prohibited privil- eges to prisoners He lost his posi- ton in the penitentiary and was accused of paying too much atten- tion to the wife of q political pris- Oner, When the husband of the woman was also released from the penitentiary, he was stabbed by a man who said Cardenas had paid