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Show SUICIDE CLEARS i : rai OF ! L MUflOER ! Ordenas Tells Reporter Me Ordered Shooting of President Madero I : . OIATKMAI.A CITY, JHn. 1 Thf ) iuMp of th formfr ilrxican crnrral. I Kranrlxo I'artlrna. 1n tha ivmriil i I Plata of thin rliy on November 27, l I 'believed here li havo ended all doulit to who wn the rel elayer of the j Mexkan president, Kranrlaro - 'd.:ro. Tardenail hnd li.ld the Akho-j Akho-j 4mted I'rena correnpondenl thathe i ilero wan hi(. lint illil not ' exlilaili' j iH'hy he ordered the Mhontinx-I Mhontinx-I . , .Madero. w ith the vli e iremdent. I'lno Muarez, wa ahot to dealh on the nlhl of Kehruary 22, 1IJ. while helnif rin- ', veyed under a auard of armed noldler" i from hln place of Iniprlaonment In the national palare to the penitentiary In Mexico t'ily. The uwual report wa ren-'dered ren-'dered to the anthorlOoa that the prla- onera had tried lo make their emnpe and that the eoldlera. In order to present pre-sent them rtettlnic away, were olillKed tu thoot them. CARDENAS APPEARS. Not long after the event, Kraitclaco f'antenaa appeared In (fuatemala. Vithin a very ehort time, he wax arreted ar-reted and Imprleoned hy ordera of Katrada Cabrera, the premdent then of thla country. Jt Ix not clear Juat on what urounda Cabrera ordered the Imprisonment Im-prisonment of Cardenaa. The novarn-ment novarn-ment of, Cabrera wax not on particularly particular-ly friendly relntlona with that of Car-.ranxa, Car-.ranxa, who hatl aurceeded (ieneral Muerta aa preeldent of Mexico. It l thouxht that the (iuatemulan preeldent Wax aware that Cardenaa waa wanted by the Carranxa novernment. and pur-poaed pur-poaed turnlnK him over io the .Mexlrn authoritlea in exchanne for certain Cuatemalana in Mrxlo who mlxht be conipirlnx axainxt Cabrera's itovern-ment. itovern-ment. However thla may be, no ex- chanxa wxx made and Cardenaa wax kenl a nrixoner for nearly xeven years. Durlnx ths revolution of last April when the dictator, t'abrera. waa over thrown, Cardenaa waa taken from the twnltentlary and brought Into thla city -under a Kuard of troops. Colonel Hells ' Ion pointed him out to the Associated I'ress correspondent ss ths man who had killed Madero. - Cardenas waa a man of medium Height, robust In appearance with a 'round, bullet-like head, thin black mustache snd thin black hair parted In -initials over his forehead. Questioned ax lo ths kllllnv of Modero hs dismissed dis-missed ths subject with ths simple statement that hs waa In command of ', .ths Ruard that did the killing, lis offered of-fered no explanation why he had rom- tnanded the guard to shoot ths prisoners, prison-ers, kumi muis Intent on-relating his own misadventures, stating that hs 4tad been In prison nearly elaht years, mors than two yeura of which had been In solitary confinement. If thlx part of Ma ststement Is correct, he must have fled from Mexico shortly after the mur-dera mur-dera were committed, and when Huerta was atlll In power. ' GETS FREEDOM. With the change of government In jOuatemala last April. Cardenas wsx xet free and given an important official position in the penitentiary, with a ' nance to make good, but It ix said that .hs accepted money for granting certain prohibited privileges to prisoners. He lint his poxitton in ths penitentiary and Waa accused of paying too much attention at-tention to the wife of a political prisoner. pris-oner. When the hualtand of the woman , was released from the penitentiary, he was stsbbed by a man Who said t ar- denaa had paid him to do the atsbblng. t'ardenas waa arrested and Imprisoned, but was released on bail. Recently, a request cams from the proper authorities in Mexico requesting that hs be held by the authoritlea here until papers could be forwarded for his extradition on the Madero murder charge. It being explained that direct .testimony hatl lieen obtained showing taim lo have been ths man directly responsible for the deed. Through some blundering of the police department. iirUenas was permitted to maks his . escape from the city but whs eventual- ly -loctted In some woods a few miles ; beyond In the district of Las Vacas. On . the night of November 28 he was enp-. enp-. tured. It Is ststed by ths lieutenant who ; commanded the soldiers that t'ardenas , offered him tzs.oot) for himself and 11000 for each of his soldiers lo be set at liberty. Ths offer h-'-- refused. 'Cardenas asked permission to rest whereupon he wrote in a memorandum hook which he carried a few lines sd- dressed to the woman with whom he J had been living, giving her his money ,and Jewels and requesting her to bury .his body in event of his death. ' The soldiers brought t'srdenas to the .central plaxa of the city, where Oir-.denax Oir-.denax suddenly drew- a small revolver wrapped In a handkerchief and shot al 'one uf the soldiers only wounding him 'slightly. As ths other soldiers closed In ion him. he placed the muxzle of his pistol in his mouth, fired twice, snd fell to the ground mortally wounded. He 'wss conveyed to ths general hospital 'where he soon died. I |