Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-26
HE FLED ID SAVE HIS HEAD Arrival of Corea's Ex-Dictator in
 FE New York. ! : ZEN HAD 1T IN FOR HIM : He Shed His Flowing Boomers and Donned Plug Hat. 
POLICE WERE COMPLETELY BAMBoozLED
The Prince Expects to Remain in This Country Until the Clouds RonBy and Study Our Institutions.
 He's Liberal.

New York, Aug. 25.-Prince Pax Yong Hyo, lately minister of the interior Of Corea and who for six months was the dictator of the kingdom, is living now at the Fifth Avenue hotel His growing power was viewed with disfavor by the queen, who it is said, trumped up charges of treason against him. At any rate he was being hunted by armed rep resentatives of the enraged monarch, when he disguised himself and fed
 Coreans wear their hair in a sort of pretzel coil on the top of their heads. Prince Pax called in a barber just as the postoffice robbers in Ludlow Street jail did, and had his black hair cut short, giving him brush-lke pompa dour. Then he discarded his highly-colored robes of office and bought pair of trousers, a cutaway coat, boiled shirt, a four-in- hand tie with horse shoe in it and a silk hat
 The transformation was complete and the Corean detectives never suspec ed the minister's identity, because they were looking for a mar in flowing pink bloom- CTS, with coil of hair upon his head. The fact that the chief of police of Co., req, Count Ri Ike Wan, also a fugitive, was in the princes company no doubt contributed to the blindness of the off, cialS of the Corean Mulberry street. The count had likewise been to the barber's and the tailofs. He is at the Fifth ave nue hotel with the prince. As the prince doesn't speak word of English, a press reporter had to interview him with the help of the count, who is a modest and retiring young man.
 The object of the princes alleged con- spiracy was believed in Corea to be to seize the throne. He is the kings nephew. Incidently it was thought the royal family was to be slain and secret alliances formed with Russia or Japan, which ever bid the highest
 Count Ri said that the blood dthirstiness was entirely on the side of the queen. "If the prince hadn't cut his hair" said he, and got aboard a steamer for Japan, he would have been killed sure. Prince Pax is too honest. No man can serve as minister of the interior satisfactorily to the queen unless he is an accomplished liar. The prince wanted to give liberal government, but the queen wouldn't have it. As for the king, he is victim of something resembling paresis and has no hand at all in the government.
 We shall remain, perhaps, two years, spending our time chiefly in Washington. The prince, who is 35 years old and a widower was eXiled from Corea once be- fore for ten years. These years the prince spent in Japan, and there he mbbed lib- eral and progressive ideas. He intends to study American institutions now. and when the trouble blows over he will re- turn to Corea. He used to be very rich man, owning many farms, but these have been seized by the queen. However, ne is not badly off,"
 The Corean chief of police said that he had 800 policemen under him. Some of them carried swords, but were not al- lowed to kill anyone. The reporter tried to ask him whether the saloons in Corea were closed on Sunday, but the counts knowledge of English gave out