Show P RESIDENT MA E 0 AND SUAREZ KILLED OFFICIALS SAY ESCORT TAKING MEN TO penitentiary AT MIDNIGHT WAS ASSAILED the C harge charge Is also made that prisoners attempted to escape while friends of deposed president say he was foully murdered mexico city francisco 1 I madero and jose suarez are dead killed sunday ira in a midnight ride under guard from the national palace to the penitentiary the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the deposed president and vice president of the republic are unknown except as given give n in official accounts cou ants which do not conform in all cases the only witnesses were those actually concerned in the killing the provisional president doht general aluerta Ilu erta says the killing of the two men was incidental to a fight between their guard and a party at tempting to jeo liberate them the minister of foreign relations francisco do de la barra adds that the prisoners attempted to ean escape ape neither makes a definite statement as to which side fired the fatal shots it la IS not imps sable th that at neither knows it would seem that felix threat that we will us such auch energetic means as to put an end to rebellions forever has baa been followed by swift execution francisco madero riding in an automobile with guards both before and behind him died from a single shot sho t A bullet entered the back of his head and emerged at the forehead suarez fell pierced by many bullets most of which entered from the front the only witnesses were those actually engaged in the shooting an international phase of the tragedy which is causing great concern Is that these two officials were slaughtered after diplomatic ro representations had been made by the ambes from the united states in their behalf and assurances from huerta Ilu erta that their safety would bo be guaranteed ambassador wilson his hag begun began an investigation other investigations I 1 have also begun and promises are made that the guilty ones will be punished not unnaturally a great part of the public regards the official versions with doubt having in mind the use for centuries of the notorious let lef luga fuga tho unwritten law which is invoked when the death of a prisoner is desired after its application there is written on the records prisoner shot trying to escape senora madero widow of the ex president received tho first definite information of his death from the spanish minister senor cotofan y cologan she already had heard reports that something unusual and serious had happened but friends had endeavored up alp to that time to prevent her from learning the whole truth soon afterward accompanied by her brother jose perez and mercedes Mero edes madero a sister of francisco benora madero drove to the penitentiary but was refused permission to see the body of her husband senora suarez also was denied admittance to the me mortuary stuary where physicians in accordance with tho the law were performing an autopsy in contrast to the widow whose grief was of nf a pitiably silent character mercedes Merc edos madero a beautiful young woman educated in paris who has been a brilliant leader of society since tho the revolution ot 1910 was dry eyed and in her emotions dy by the side of the tha two women whose husbands had been killed the girl hurled accusations at the officers who barred the entrance cowards assassins she called them her voice pitched high tho the officers stared impassively you the men who fired on a defenseless fen seless roan man you and your superior officers are tr traitors liters no effort was made to remove tho the women nor did the officers attempt to silence them senora madero continued to weep and the girl did not cease her hysterical tirade until the arrival of the spanish mini minister ml stet |