Maderist Accuses Ambassador Wilson.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 21, 1913:
Says Diplomat Told Mme. Madero Her Husband Was Doomed and Wouldn't Intercede.
REPEATS STORY OF MURDER
Col. Alcalde, Safe in San Francisco, Complains Wilson Didn't Protect Him.
    SAN FRANCISCO, March 20.— Col Manuel Blanche Alcalde, publisher of the New Era, a Mexico City newspaper, generally regarded as the mouthpiece of President Madero, arrived here to-day and asserted that he was "in a position to prove" that Madero was shot and that Vice President Suarez was strangled in the National Palace on the night of Feb 22 and then bodies taken to the prison in an automobile.
    "The reported assault by the guard" said Alcalde, "was merely a farcical ruse and a part of the plot. If the automobile was fired upon the guards were only pouring lead into the bodies of the President and Vice President, who w ere murdered in the place hours before."
    Col. Alcalde asserted that the news of Madero s fate was known in Washington before the hour named in the official version at the time of the alleged attempt to rescue him.
    "As a matter of fact," said he "President Madero and Vice President Suarez were killed between 8 and 9:30 o'clock, Mexico City time on the night of Feb 22. The President was shot from behind and the powder burned his neck. Suarez was choked to death. His Secretary, Ferdinandez de la Reguera, saw the body two days later and there were finger marks on the throat. One eye had been forced from its socket and the tongue protruded."
    Col. Alcalde said that Mme. Madero told him there was no hope for her husband after she interviewed Ambassador Wilson the afternoon of Feb 22.
    "Mme. Madero and Mme. Suarez went to the Ambassador to implore him to intercede for their husbands lives," he said "I saw them when they left the Embassy."
    They said Ambassador Wilson had expressed to them his belief that the President and Vice President would be executed.
    Bitterly criticising Ambassador Wilson, Col. Alcalde said the American diplomat declined to intercede to save him from arrest and death.
    "After the Huerta coup, fearing arrest and execution, I went to the Ambassador and appealed for his aid in return for my protection of Americans in my school. He told me at first he could do nothing. Finally he asked me to write my name on a card with that of my brother.
    "Soon afterward a friend of mine rushed to me with the information that the American Ambassador had given a card on which were the names of my brother and myself to Secretary Granados and the latter had immediately issued orders for our arrest. This friend had overheard part of a conversation between the Ambassador and Granados in which he said the Ambassador had said that my brother and I were in fear of arrest. Granados replied that we had escaped his attention, but he would attend to our cases at once, and the order of arrest was issued. My friend hastened to me gave me his purse and urged me to flee. I left Mexico City disguised as a track laborer at 10 o'clock that night. My wife and babies were disguised. Thanks to a friendly train conductor we made our way to Salina Cruz and embarked for San Francisco."