Cuba Protects Maderos.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 25, 1913:
Father and Uncle of Assassinated Executive Safe on a Gunboat.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    VERA CRUZ, Mexico. Feb. 24.— The remaining male members of the Madero family who were in the Mexican capital at the time of the Huerta revolution have put themselves under the protection of the Cuban Government, which was especially friendly to the Madero administration.
    Francisco I. Madero, father of the deposed and assassinated President, came to Vera Cruz this morning, accompanied by Ernesto Madero, who was Finance Minister in his nephew's Cabinet, They were permitted by the authorities at Mexico City to leave in a special train, following the killing of Saturday night, and came through unmolested. With them were two sons of Ernesto. All went aboard the Cuban gunboat Cuba soon after their arrival. They would make no statement bearing on the recent events in the capital.
    The gunboat will sail early to-morrow for Havana. It is understood that she is awaiting the Cuban Minister or some member of his staff, who will go to Havana to tell personally what has happened and seek instructions.
    Francisco I. Madero escaped the vengeance visited on his two sons because it was known that he had never been in sympathy with what they had done to overthrow Diaz. He performed a signal service to the former dictator by attempting to make terms with his son just before the fall of Juarez. Ernesto Madero also has been believed to have been largely out of sympathy with the extreme ideas of his nephew, and to have endeavored at times to counteract the influence of Gustavo. Neither is expected to engage in any plot against Huerta and Felix Diaz.
    No explanation was given for their reason in leaving behind the widow and sisters of the dead President, but it is assumed that these women prefer to remain under the protection of foreign diplomats until the burial of their dead.
    The failure of the Maderos to bring with them the mother, wife, and sisters of the dead Executive caused much speculation for a time to-day. One rumor had it that Señora Madero, widow of the ex-President, had committed suicide. It was said on behalf of the Maderos, however, that the women had remained behind to attend to the burial of the murdered man and that they would come here before to-morrow and go on the Cuba.
    It is charged by sympathizers with the Huerta administration that a plot was formed here after the deposition of Madero for an attack on the American war vessels, which would force intervention by the United States. Soldiers in some of the forts were said to be involved in a scheme to fire shots at the battleships, which would force a reply and probably the landing of marines to take charge of the city. Once an American force was on Mexican soil, it was calculated that the Washington Government would be compelled to extend its activities until it had settled the whole trouble in Mexico. The death of Madero and Suarez is said to have dampened the ardor of the plotters.