New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-26

OF progress In exile In Toxic everything was ready.
even 70 the vallse In which the head ~ PAX. by
birth and character the noblest OF the exiles 10
be carried to Seoul but ut the critical moment the
hearts Of the conspirators failed and the plot wa,
discovered befVe any overt act had been committed
by the woud-bc assasslns The Corcan charge
d'anaircs for reasons unknown. took French leave
from Toxic; but his strange conduct was dsavowci
by HE Government. which also discaimed connec-
ton with the plot.
MURDER OF KIM.
Kim however by means OF dummy draft" on
non-exisiing bank In China. had already been lurcl
TO Shanghai. and there. March 2 at the japanese
hotel in the absence OF his japanese servant and
while lying on his bed the exile treacherously
shot by his pretended friend. the assassin. Hong
Tjyong-On with one bullet through the head and
two in the body. Kim was found lying on the top Of
the staircase. where he had fallen ne endea vored
TO escape. The murderer promptly arrested the
day by English policeman In the foreign set
Element and handed over to the Chinese magistrate
Jn court Hong claimed to have been what might he
called IAN assassin penipOtentIary" with full pow
ers from his sovereign 10 remove Kim. the traitor
His credentials and acaled orders he claimed to have
left in Toxic Very strange It was that the Chinese
TO their great dlscred and contrary 10 the second
article OF the Commercial and Trade Rcgula lions
between the two countries did try the murderer
at ALL but handed him a Corean Official
placed all thrcc-the Of1clal. the ASSASSIN and the
corpse-on one OF their men-of-war. and sent
them to Corea. There they landed. the corpse In a
long coffin with nag borne In front OF II and In
scribed 1.-THE most vanous traitor. Ok Kyun."
Shortly afterward. in a barley field near the Han
River the corpscs head sawed off (whether
with a saw or a rope. and may be still
the custom in Corea. know noD. and suspended
from "A bamboo tripod with the loppedon hands and
feet by It's side In a bundle and with the trunk
sliced and gashed very much in the fashion OF a
crmped fish. lying before IT, After days OF this
horrd spectacle In the capital the body thrown
into the river and the head. hand and foot
sailed and circulated throughout Corea. after which
they 10 be abandoned to the vuitures. To crown
all. Km's father himself 'the begetter of the
traitor" though he had persistently opposed the
political views Of his son. though poor and old and
blind hanged a few days afterward. All this
was. we believe according TO law: but what
law and what country! And yet there
small body Of courageous Corcan officers, joined
by the foreign employees under Mr.. Grcathouse.
an American. and supported by joint represent
taton OF the Russian. German. American and Eng
lish dplomatists. who submitted through the Japa-
nese representatives to the Seoul Government pro-
tests against this treatment Of Kim's body; but
all was either In vain or too late. Thus ended
Gold Jewel Peaceful" Qteral translation OF Kim
Ok-Kyun), a foe OF the Mings. a friend OF civiza-
ton. but still child OF his own day and genera
ton, for he. too. had In the day OF his power
ployed Corean. that Is. thoroughly barbarous
methods. Patriot or adventurcr, as you please but
certainly no traitor TO his country or King.
The Ming faction organized thirty days revel
official dignity. Wined and dned by the Mngs
the patriot and hero OF the hour most vIrtuous
Hong stiii refuses to be happy; fears solitude.