Monday, April 29, 2013

Fuentes In Havana.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 29, 1913:
Mexican ex-Governor, Fleeing Assassination, Expected to Come Here.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    HAVANA, April 28.— Alberto Fuentes, ex-Governor of Aguas Calientes, Mexico, arrived here this morning under the assumed name of Juan Davalos, accompanied by his wife and six children. His wife sailed under the name of José Finaramos. Fuentes said he was compelled to flee from Mexico because he feared assassination. He was one of three Governors ordered to be executed by Enrique Cepeda, the Federal Governor of Belen prison, when Gabriel Hernandez was shot and then burned. Fuentes says Hernandez was really burned alive, he escaping the same fate solely through the intervention of the Warden of the prison.
    Fuentes will probably sail for New York to-morrow.
    The fugitive ex-Governor says he made himself so popular with the American troops on the Texan border that he was able to smuggle from the United States within eight days 145,000 cartridges, which saved Madero's cause against Porfirio Diaz, as they came at a time when the rebels' ammunition was all but exhausted.

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