Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1904-03-16
KILLED A REelclDE.
Two Koreans Murder One Of the AS
sassins Of the Late Queen.

One Of the murderers of the Queen
of Korea, who fed the country and
has been living in Japan, has fallen
a victim to her avengers. Two men,
were sent to kill him, and they have
fulfilled their mission. 4 5.,-
The matter has been kept quiet
because Japan cannot surrender the
murderers or condemn and execute
them without giving grave offense to
enc Of the political parties in Korea.
The facts, however. were published
in that country recently.
After Japan's triumph over China,
the dominating influence in Korea wes
sJananesa -GA~2lrng anu Queen soon
found that the liberal laws and many
reforms introduced by Japan had
stripped them of most Of their power.
The strongminded Queen was beside
herself with rage. and, rightly or
wrongly, she was accused of plotting
to assissinate tho new Cabinet in.
stalled under japanese influence.
Native friends of the Japanese de.
cided to kill her and one night a
party of armed men burst into the
palace and stabbed her to death. None
OF them was caught. and all got safely
out of the country. Prominent among
them was man named U-Pom.sun.
who fed to Japan.
Most Koreans were tired of the
Japanese regime, whose reforms were
little too rapid for their conserva.
tism. They were Mortified also at
the murder of the Queen, and when it
became certain that U-Pom-sun was
a refugee to japan, there were loud
demands that he be sent home for
punishment; but Japan refused to sur.
render him, asserting that his crime
was political and that he was not ex.
traditable.
A band Of Koreans took vow that
they would never rest till U-Pom-sun
had paid for the tragic death of the
Queen with his life. But the man
whom they sent to Japan to kill the
regicide could not find him.
He was living inSs retirement and
under an alias. twas not till October
last that his out Of the way place OF
concealment was discovered and the
man recognized.
One day two men came to the ham
let where U-Pom-sun made his home
They did not deny that they were
Koreans. They were travelling
through Japan studying the country
and having good time.
Their intended victim had no sus
picion as to their real character. Tx
had never seen them before. They
drank and played cards with him ant
the three became quite friendly
strangely enough, they lived in thu
same house with him for three OF
four days and he was not at all dis
turbed by their presence.
On the evening OF Oct % the thres
men were drinking together, whey
one Of them pretended to take offens;
at some remark made by U-Pom-suI
and suddenly whipped out a knife ant
stabbed him. At nearly the same in
slant the other man struck the vic
tim on the head with piece of iron
fracturing his skull.
His death was almost instantaneous
The name of the man who stabbed
him was 10 Yung- geun; the other as
ssilant was No Wun-myung.
The men were at once arrested a
common murderers. Each of then
drew from his pocket paper decla1
ing that they had been dsputized t
go to Japan to avenge the death 0
the late Queen.
At last accounts the murderers wer
still in Jail. 1t is not believed in Ke
rea that Japan vii! intlict severer pun
ishment for their crime.-New Yorl
Sun.