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Show DENOUNCES! EMBASSADOR Senora Madero Says Henry Lane Wilson Could Have Saved Her Husband's Life in Mexico City New York. April 6 - Senora Sara Perez de Madero. widow of the mur-i dc-red president of Mexico, broke today to-day the silence she has maintained since the assassination of ber hus-,hand hus-,hand on February 22. to lay the moral responsibility for his death at the door of United States Rmbassadoi ; ilson In an exclusive statement to the j International News Service, Senora. Madero makes the charges filed at Washington on Saturday by Luis Manuel Rojas against Henry Lane J Wilson, her own. It is a sensational series of disclosures disclos-ures which the widow of the Mexican I martyr presents, had knowledge In advance of the coup d'etat which o -erthrew the Madero covernmenf he I conferred with Huerta on the disposition dispo-sition of Madero anil Vice President Pino Suarez. and advised the dicta-tor dicta-tor to do what he thought best for j the interests of the country." In so manv words. Senora Madero! dpclnres Embassador Wilson Inform-! ed her that Pino Buarez could not be released but would have to "disappear" "disap-pear" by whi'h the senora under- j stood that he was to die. Suppressed Telcgram. She charges further that in a pa - i i t he tic interview which she had with j Kmbassador Wilson, at w hich she in-j voked the aid of the United States to I save her husband s life the embas-! embas-! sador refused to accept such responsibility respon-sibility and later suppressed a tele-gram tele-gram w hich he mother of the mur- j dered president bad prepared to be J sent to President Taft beseeching his merciful aid Finally Senora Madero details a n tst remarkable interview she had 'ith Kmbassador Wilson in which the J latter said to her "I will be frank with von. Mrs Madero. Ma-dero. your husband's downfall is due to the fact that he never consulted I With me he never wanted to advise with me." Not until Embassador Wilson made emphatic denial through the Interna-j , iional News Service today of the charges filed w-lth the Stale depart ment against him by Luis Manuel I Rojas. a vice president of the Mexican Mexi-can congress, did Senora Madero con-Jsent con-Jsent to tell her remarkable story Declares Story True "I speak." she then said, "because of my duty to the memory of my , husband ' And Senora Madero added this significant sig-nificant comment which may he respectfully re-spectfully referred to the authorities at W a ihlngtbn : 'What 1 sa to von now Is the simple sim-ple irutli Which I will be willing to j repeal to "ver one--even ihf pro-lib nt of the United States ! Attired in deep mourning, a sweetly sweet-ly pathetic flRiiro. the widow of Madero. Ma-dero. received a reporter in her retreat re-treat In the northern section of the j city. Her attention as first called to Urn. Ibassador Wilson's statement yester-;da. yester-;da. that his relations with Madero remained frjendh until the last and that he has since received an expression expres-sion to that effect, "coupled with thanks for my efforts In behalf of the famll) from its present head. Ernesto Madero " Ernesto Madero,' sib Senora Madero Ma-dero with dignity, "Is not the head Jof the family. My father-in-law. Francisco Madero. is the head of the family since my husband Is gone. Speaks Bitterly. "As to the friendly relations belt be-lt ween my late husband and the embassador, em-bassador, the. were of a diplomatic 1 nature only. As to the thanks for Sis efforts in behalf of our fannl . here Senora Maderos voice took on a bluer note, 'after we arrived it) this country, Ernesto Madero received from Embassador Wilson a letter of condolence on niv husband's murder, lie replied to Ibis letter, thanking the embassador for his smpathy Senora Madero's attention was then 'called to the statement of Embassador Embassa-dor Wilson that "no application was ever made to me to put Madero and Pino Saures under the protection of Mho American flag If it had been I should have Immediately granted them protection" 'lhe widow of Madero sat ilent a minute after this declaration had been read to her surprise and sorrow sor-row pictured In her face Then she Said, carefully selecting her words Begged Protection 1 went to the United States em-b em-b ..$ with m1 sister-in-law, Senorita Mercedes de Madero. to bet th em-bataador'a em-bataador'a protection for the life ol u j husband and the prisoners with him. H was on Februarv 20, two das before my husband was killed 1 Ivesged the embassador to protect m hu-band and I pleaded with him to send 8 telegram to President Tail in cede signed by niv mother-in-law, tlu-mother tlu-mother of th- preitjont asking President Pres-ident Taft to use all his influence to protect the lives of mv husband. Pino SaureSi and the other prisoners. I v anted the embassador to send the message in code. because I was Bfrald otherwise It would not get out of the country, General Huerta being i:: absolute control of the olograph w ires " What reply did the embassador make to your request'1 was asked. He said answered Senora Madero, Ma-dero, " 1 dO not believe it is neces-satv neces-satv to send this cable' and he put it in his pocket i again urged him Lo -end it and be s,(j he would. But I am sure that he never did fter-ward fter-ward when It was all over, I wrote a I letter to President Taft from Havana.! aing him if he had received our dispatch, but 1 have never got any re. I lv to that ' Declined Responsibility. Proceeding to give the details of the interview with Embassador Wilson Wil-son on February 20, while President Madero and Suarez were still alive, Senora Madero said I told him that I had come to him to seek protection for my husband who was a prisoner In the palaee " 'Very well, madame. what can 1 do for you'1' he asked I want you to use the power of the United States to protect him I 1 said f'annot you offer him asylum' in this embus V " 'No.' he answered, T do not care to fake such responsibility upon myself my-self or mv office.' "Then It was," continued Senora Madero, "that I asked him to send the telegram to President Taft. After he bad said that he would do so. the conversation was continued ' 1 will be frank with you,' the embassador said. 'Your husband's downfall is due to the fact that he ne.cr consulted with me. He never wanted to advise with me Unable to Reply. "I could make no reply To this." said Senora Madero today plaintive-Ij plaintive-Ij I had gone there to ask him a fa or " 'You know madame,' the ambassador ambas-sador continued, our husband has peculiar ideas.' 'He was trying to show that m husband wai crazj But I said to him, 'Mr Embassador, nr. husband has not peculiar ideas, but high ideals.' To this he made no repl 1 told him then that I asked the same assurance as to the safely of the vice president , .lose Maria Pino Suarez, as I asked for my husband. He replied re-plied : " 'I cannot give the same assurance assur-ance Thai kind of man has to disappear dis-appear bt cause he is one of the leaders lead-ers of the Porra party.' Mr Wilson used the vulgar expression ex-pression for the Progresshc part of Mexico I urged upon him that Sen-or Sen-or Pino Suarez had a wife and six children who would be in want If he died, as he had no fortune to leave them, but he merely shrugged his shoulders. Then he told me that General Huerta had asked him bis adlce as to what should be done with my husband hus-band and the other prisoners Alleged Reply to Huerta. ' 'What did you tell General Huerta'' Huer-ta'' I asked. nd the American ambassador am-bassador replied that he had said to Huerta You must do what you think best for the interests of the countr "Mi sister in low Interrupted here, Sa 'ng: ' 'Why did ou say that? You know very well what kind of men they are and are going to kill them " But he made no repl "Then the ambassador told me that the president was unpopular and I as! i 'I him if that was so why he was not permitted to go free as be could do no harm, and permitted to go to Europe His repl) was to assure me that the person of my husband, the i dent, would not be touched ''Another thing I recall in connection connec-tion with our Interview The am-bassador am-bassador told mo that he knew be-forehand be-forehand all ihai was going to happen hap-pen and that was why he suggested mv husband s resignation "1 asked him. "Why did you not tell my husband?' "He replied No. that would not have been good policy, because then he might have taken precautions against It' All of these things come to me now in disconnected form There waa much more, but I cannot remember I told the ambassador m husband waa very uncomfortable m his prison, without bed or food ex-oept ex-oept the kind of food that he wonld not eat. He was a vegetarian and thej persisted in serving him meats, so that all he had to eat was bananas and bread The ambassador remarked re-marked that he seemed to be getting along all right "He rests all right," he said for he has slept five hours handrun-nlng." handrun-nlng." " Other Exiles Talk. Olher friends of the latter, exiles from Mexico, came to his support lodax and ontroverted the statement ol niba sailor W ilson that Scnor Rojas Ro-jas holds an entirely superfluous and unimportant position. He tills a most important position, it is declared in the chamber of deputies in Mexico, and is. moreover, a 33d degree Mason Ma-son und grand master ol the Masonic rand lodge of the Valley of Mexico , Madero was also a 33d degree Ma , son and Ambassador Wilson is a member of the raternitj also It was In behalf of a fellow Mason that Ro- ijas made his first appeal to Wll- 1 son in bebalf of Madero Grave fears were expressed by members of the Mexican colony here today as to the -safety of Senor Ru-jo Ru-jo uow that be has stepped into the open with charges against Ambassador Ambas-sador Wilson, which inferential m-olve m-olve the Huerta regime. In conse micnce of these tears. Influential Masons Ma-sons of high degree in the United Slates have appealed to Secretary of I State Brvan to take the necessary steps to insure for Senor Rajos the fullest measure of protection in Mex ico. s to the reply of tbe ambassador to the charges made against him. the , Mexican colon beliees that Senora M-idero's statement contains all of the proof that is necessary It was I pointed out today, however, that Dial and Huerta planned their move. In I the imerican embassy In Mexico Citv that the friends of Wilson who have come to Washington lo plead for his retention admit such confer-1 confer-1 ence8 were held in Mr W llBOO -rooms And. replying to Mr Wilson 8 denials that "representatives of Huerta Huer-ta and Diaz met in the embassy with the diplomatic corps prior to the down fall Of Madero." it is declared that no charge was made of meetinga with the diplomatic corps " It was alone that the conferences were held, it is charged. |