Sent No Madero Rescuers.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 12, 1913:
President's Widow Denies Official Explanation of Tragedy.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    HAVANA, March 11.— Señora Francisco I. Madero, Jr., widow of the slain President of Mexico, denied indignantly to-day a statement made in the City of Mexico on Sunday last by Gen. Mondragon, Minister of War of the Mexican Republic, in which he sought to fix on her indirect responsibility for her husband's death, through an alleged attempt to rescue Señor Madero from his captors.
    "That statement is ridiculous," said Señora Madero. "Of course, it is absolutely false. It places the present Government of Mexico in the position of endeavoring to mitigate its crime before a condemnatory world by trying to fasten the responsibility on helpless woman.
    "We had no opportunity to try to muster bands of rescuers," the President's widow continued, "even if we had thought of doing so, because we were in momentary expectation of being assassinated ourselves."
    Beyond that indignant denial. Señora Madero refused to discuss Minister Mondragon's statement.
    The entire party of the survivors of the Madero family who fled to Cuba from Mexico sailed for New York this afternoon aboard the Ward liner Monterey.
    Gen. Mondragon, Mexico's Minister of War, was quoted in a dispatch from Mexico City, dated last Sunday, as saying that Señora Madero largely was responsible for the killing of the President in that capital, following the overthrow of the Madero Administration by Gen. Huerta and Gen. Felix Diaz.
    "Investigation shows," the statement attributed to the Minister ran, "that had it not been for the activity of Mrs. Madero in her efforts to rescue her husband he would not have been killed. In her anxiety to effect his release she persuaded groups of men loyal to Madero to go to the vicinity of the penitentiary, School of Target Practice, and the Ciudadela, not knowing to which of those places the prisoners would be taken from the palace.
    "It was the group sent to the penitentiary by Mrs. Madero which attempted to rescue the President."