Asserts Madero Was Shot In Cell.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 7, 1913:
His Brother Emilio Says Alleged Shooting in the Street Was a Fiction.
GUSTAVO FIRST MUTILATED
And Then Murdered, He Declares — Sonora Rebellion Spreads — Huerta Sends Army to Crush It.
Special to The New York Times.
    SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 6.— That President Francisco I. Madero of Mexico was slain in his cell by emissaries of the Huerta administration and that his brother Gustavo was likewise murdered after being mutilated in a horrible manner was the statement made here to-night to The New York Times correspondent by Emilio Madero, a brother of the dead men, who arrived here yesterday after a ride for life to the United States. In his statement Emilio Madero said:
    In regard to the killing of my brother Gustavo, Gen. Huerta invited my brother Gustavo to dinner, together with two Generals, who were friendly to the Maderista administration.
    "Huerta had with him two special officers for the dinner. They were very friendly and made several toasts relating to coming events, which were sup-posed to be toward the successful assault of the citadel. At the end of the dinner Gen. Huerta said he would like to take a last look at the firing line, and asked my brother, Gustavo, if he would lend him his revolver. My brother tendered his revolver, and Gen. Huerta stepped out of the room, and the officers then told my brother in a very rough way that he was a prisoner.
    "The other officers were taken with him to the National Palace and then taken to the citadel, where he was mutilated in a most atrocious manner. My brother had but one eye, and the remaining one they cut out with a knife, also cutting off his lips and his nose before murdering him, and he was mutilated almost beyond all recognition by the family. And I want to state that up to the present time, so far as I know, the body has never been delivered to the Madero family.
    "My brother, Francisco I. Madero, the President, was taken a prisoner the same day and was supposed to be sent, accompanied by some of the staff of Huerta, to the prison.
    "Blanquet then came in, traitor that he was. The soldiers, not knowing what was happening and not knowing to whom to be loyal, were at a loss when Huerta and Blanquet ordered them to turn on the Government. Blanquet said, "Enough of this clownish business. Fire." And then they were taken to prison. And Marcos F. Hernandez was also killed there. He was a brother of the Secretary of the Interior, under Francisco's administration.
    "My brother Francisco was taken to the prison and shot in his cell. Then his body was taken back into the Palace and they pretended he had been shot on his way to the prison. But both he and the Vice President were first killed in the Palace, having never resigned their offices. They took their bodies out in the street at midnight, and raised a little row and pretended he was killed then.
    "No one had been allowed to visit my brother that day. My sister-in-law, Francisco's wife, and my sister, when they were allowed to see him before, say that he told them he knew that had to be killed, but they must be brave and not cry or break down. My brother also told Vice President Suarez that he knew he would be shot down like a rat, but Suarez was his most loyal friend, and declared he would die with him and never desert him, that he wanted to meet the same fate as Francisco. They were always loyal friends.
    "After cutting out the one good eye of my brother Gustavo they mutilated his body terribly, and set him up to be fired on by the people. All other stories to the contrary are lies."
    When asked about the talk of Mexico being at peace on account of Huerta's accession. Emilio and his brother Raoul refused to make any statement, saying simply:
    "As to that you will see in a few weeks. We know nothing of conditions there now any more than you do, other than as we read in the papers. We are out of it, and we certainly do not want to see 10,000 to 20,000 Mexicans killed just to avenge the death of our noble brother. What would be the use? Where would we be benefited?"