The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-29
DELLA HUERTA
 BELIEVED SLAIN
 OR LOST AT SEA
Mexican Officials Think Revolt Leader Victim
 Of Plot

NEW ORLEANS, March B. Mystery concerning the silence and whereabouts of Adolfo de La Huerta deepened today when his wife told newspaper men she believed him to be dead and Mexican officials advanced the theory based on information from Mexico City, that he might have been assassinated. as a result of plot among his associates to overthrow him as head of the rebellion.
 Sonora de Le Huerta also for the first time disclosed that her coming to New Orleans from Mexico City was part of plan which involved her hus- bands leaving Mexico to settle here. Sonora de La Huerta arrived here March 14 and her husband, she was quoted as having said, was to have sailed from Frontera for New Orleans March 1S. Mexican officials here an- nounced several days ago they had learned de La Huerta embarked at Frontera March IS and corroboration of this came yesterday from Mexico City.
 May Have Died At Sea s,
 De La Huerta was said to have boarded the steamer Explorations, q craft little larger than fishing smack. A few hours after the vessel is supposed to have left storm arose which for two days swept the lower Mexican coast and kicked up seas which the Exploradora could not possibly have stemmed. This leads many to believe that the Explora- dora foundered with de La Huerta aboard. ,e
 The growing number of those who fear assassination advance the theory that the rebel leader might have been killed ashore, his body placed aboard the Exploradora and the vessel sent to sea in the face of the storm to certain destruction to cover up the crime.
 There circulated here several months ago story to the effect that plot was afoot to overthrow de La Huerta and place Gen. Candido Aguilar, son. in-law of the late President Carranza at the head of the revolution. Aguilar came to New Orleans from San Am tonio, Texas, where he had resided in exile several years.
 Arrested AboarN Ship
 He remained here week or. ten days, awaiting departure of vessel for Vera CEuZ Auu COAoIhntAy Wdc DuA veillance by agents of the department of justice; but was not molested until he boarded the ship. Then he was ar- rested and charged with attempted vio- lation of the neutrality laws. Later he made bond, went to Vera Cruz, joined the revolution and now is one of its leading figures.
 shortly after Augilar's arrest Teo- doro Frezieres, rebel commercial agent here, resigned because of his health" he announced. About the same time there began to circulate in Mexican circles the story of the plot to over throw de La Huerta. The plot, so the story went, was matched at a meeting of rebel sympathizers in Port Arthur, Texas, then gathering place for them because the wireless station there was the only commercial station in this country for time in touch with rebel headquarters at Vera Cruz. Frezieres, according to the story, was invited to attend the meeting and did so, but re- fused to participate in the plot. Upon his return here he is said to have com municated it's details to de La Huerta, but the rebel chieftain laughed at his story and expressed complete confidence in Aguilar's integrity.