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Show MEXICANS TALK IN WHISPERS OF MADERO MURDER Explanations of Huerta Not Believed But the Fear of Assassination Prevents Outspoken Condemnation Condemna-tion of the Slaughter of the Former President and Vice President Mexico City, Feb. 21. The Huerta rulo or blood and Iron is triumphant for tho time being. Mndero Is dead. Ills father and his uncle Ernesto hnvo fled. Of his Immediate Im-mediate family only his sorrowing wife and his slBter Mercedes remain. Every development of tho day has strengthened tho first belief that Mndero Mn-dero and Suarez woro brutally murdered, mur-dered, but this for tho present Is an event of thu past to bo discussed only In whispers. Tho people ot Mexico City tonight arc in tho theaters and the restaurants, restaur-ants, happy In appeal ance but fear ful In their hearts lest tho lronlcnl hoax ot Madero's "attempted Might" be repeated. General Huerto remains nt the national na-tional palace In seclusion attending to business at hand with tho utmost llrmness. Aware of the Danger Tho city Is bedecked with bunting and flags, but these symbols of gay-ety gay-ety do not disillusion tho new dictator. dicta-tor. Ho knows that conspiracies aro afoot to avengo tho murder of the man whose bullet riddled body was placed today In tho most secretive and mysterious manner In a mausoleum mauso-leum In tho French cemetery. Huerta realizes, too, that his administration ad-ministration Is on trial. If ho dared to defy:Jtb0 United States and It hns been charged that he did by disposing dis-posing ot Madcro beforo ho could bo fairly tried ho realizes that the' consequences will bo far moro serious ser-ious than the commission of that act . News comes tonight from the country districts that certain rebel lenders aro ready to follow tho Huerta Hu-erta banner, but news also comes ot braver or perhaps more frank rebels, reb-els, who nro determined not to nbldo by rulo of blood and Iron. Victims Entombed A faint "Viva Mndero" from a small group of peons huddled with heads bared outcido tho frowning gates of the penitentiary was heard todny as tho final plaudits for tho man who less than two years ago rodo triumphant through a city that strewed his path with flowers and thundered his nnmo from the housetops. house-tops. Federal soldiers with fixed bnyon-o!s bnyon-o!s dispersed tho peons, and the body of Mndero,' In n plain wooden ensket, was borno on tho shoulders of soldiers to tho French cemetery, where It wns placed In Its temporary resting placo In a mausoleum. Shortly afteiwnrd tho body of Suarez Su-arez wnB removed to tho Spanish cemetery and temporarily entombed. It was learned Into tonight that tho government has refused permission permis-sion for tho transfer of tho bodies of Mndero and Suarez, respectively, to Coahulln and Yucatan, giving as a reason that It docs not desire to nfford tho people of these states an oxcuso for demonstrations. Explanations Are Lame It Is difficult to explain tho death of Madcro and Suarez a'nd tho Immediate Im-mediate dissection of tho bodies Is problematical in vlow ot tho developments develop-ments of todny. Tho bodies of tho two murdered statesmen wcro found lying In tho rear of tho penitentiary. Red stains marked tho spot. This fact being Incompatible In-compatible with tho first official version ver-sion of tho affair, tho government today promulgated a now official version. ver-sion. Tho first version had stated that tho bodies lay at a point two thirds ot tho way between ir- pnl aco and tho prison. Now it is explained thut tho automobiles auto-mobiles ran along tho sldo of the road and taat Mndero and Suarez Jumped out nnd woro runnng when thoy wcro caught between tho flro ot tho rural guards escorting tho prisoners and their nssnllantB. In this way tho government accounts for wounds being Inflicted on tho victims from front and back. Contrndlctlng both of thoso versions, ver-sions, howovor, Is that ot an oye-wlt-ness of tho tragedy. False Announcement Tho announcement had gono forth enrly In tho evening that Madero nnd Suarez already had been convoyed to tho penitentiary. Two hours beforo be-foro tho shooting tho populace, or thoso of tho pecplo who remained In tho streets, bolloved that Madero wns at last assured of a fair trial. He had been taken to the prison for safer keeping t Before 11 o'clock the lights of the palace went out and It was believed that the day and Its eents bad been olliclnlly ended. There Is one mnn, however, who lingered near tho palace, vlowlng tho magnificent building and Its battle bat-tle bears and watching tho sentries. Suddenly, n few minutes after 11 o'clock the doorB of tho war department depart-ment swung open nnd two automobiles automo-biles sped into tho Callo Mondae. In ono machine wns tho short bearded Madero, sitting erect In the rear seat. Beside hlm-Bat Major Juan Cardenas of the Seventh rurales. Another officer sat besldo tho chauffeur. chauf-feur. In tho other car was Joso l'Ino Suarez with two officers nnd a uniformed uni-formed chauffeur. No One In Sight Tho' courso of tho Hying automobiles automo-biles could bo eaBlly followed. Tho plaza was deserted and thcro woro no vehicles In tho adjacent street. Tho moon made the plaza and Its environs a bright cxpanso of white flagging. The automobiles followed tho Callo Cal-lo Mondne several blocks and then whirled down a sldo street, coming out ,011 the Lnllo Lccumbarra. At tho end of tho Callo Lecumbarra Is tho front entrance ot the pcnltentlnry Tho automobiles did not enter the prison nt tho front cntrnnco nnd In less than ono minute nfter tho machines ma-chines reached tho end ot the street shots woro heard from behind tho penitentiary. There wero probably twenty bhots. Tho mnu who heard tho shot a, rushing afoot to tho doorB ot tbo prison, asking a guard tho cause of the firing. Ho was told ho did not know. Ho know no moro than what i ho had heard shots from tho rear I of tho prison. I A minuto later an olllcor enmo I from behind tho building and an- nounced that Mndero and Suarez woro dead. |