Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-27
KOREAN ASSASSIN
ON TRIAL TODAY
COUNTRYMEN FURNISH FUNDS
FOR DEFENSE
PRISONER is MAN WHO KILLED
D. w. STEVENS
In Whan Chang, Principal In Murder
Case Of international Interest,
Looks Like Sohoolboy
Of Fifteen
By AssocIated Prels.

BY Associated Pret5.
SAN FRANCISCO, July ga trial
for murder of international interest
will be called in the superior court in
this city Monday morning before Judge
Carroll Cook, when In Whan Chang,
the Korean who, on March 23 last, shot
and killed Durham White Stevens,
diplomatic adviser to the Korean en-
reror at Seoul.
Mr.. Stevens was shot as he was
about to board a ferry boat in this
city en- route to Washington. The bull
let passed through his abdomen and
he died on March 26, after the most
hopeful reports of his physicians for
his recovery.
Consul General Chose Koike, a num-
Der of prominent physicians and
friends.
Chang, the assa ssin, whose first shots
had seriously wounded M. w. Chun,
one of his associates who lay in wait
for Mr.. Stevens, was captured on the
spot and has since been held in jail
awaiting trial.
Shooting Carefully Planned .
The shooting of Mr.. Stevens was
carefully planned and carried out in a
sensational manner. Accompanied by
the Japanese consul general, the diplo-
mat had arrived at the ferry in an
automobile on his way to take a train
for the east on a vcation from his long
service IN the Orient.
Chang, Chun, and 1t is believed two
other Koreans who have never been
arrested lay in wait for Mr.. Stevens,
and as he alighted from an automobile
at the ferry one of the Koreans walked
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the face. Mr.. Stevens started in pur-
suit of his assailant, when Chang, who
held a revolver in his hand, began fir
ing. His first shot struck Chun and
seriously wounded him. Two other
shots were fired, both striking Mr.. Ste
vens, one in the back near the right
shoulder and the other several inches
lower, the bullet DETECTING and passing
through the abdomen.
Japanese Consul General Koike came
to the rescue of Mr.. Stevens, placed
MIN in an automobile and rushed him
to the harbor emergency hospital.
Subsequently he was taken to the St.
Francis hospital, where he died three
days later.
Looks Like a Schoolboy
Chang, who is a diminutive Korean
80 years old, and who looks like a boy
of Is, declares he acted from patriotic
1llOLlNcS, believing Will d VA
his countrymen in this city that Mr..
Stevens had been instrumental in Civ
ing Japan control in Korea. He has
never expressed any regret for his act,
and believes he has done his country
a. great service. Ample funds for his
defense have been provided by Koreans
in this country as we'll as in Korea.
and he will be represented court by
able counsel.
Durhe m White Stevens had, long
been prominent in Oriental public life.
He was secretary of the American le-
cation at Toxic in 1878, subsequently
becoming counselor to the Japanese
legation at Washington. Thence he
went to Toxic, where after service in
the foreign office he became member
of the commission sent by Japan to
Korea to adjust difficulties which
threatened to involve Japan ana China
in 1887
AfterWard he held various posts un-
der the Japanese government and en-
loved the confidence of the emperor
and the highest government officials.
HE was sent to Korea by the emperor
of .Iapan after the Japanese war
and became the confidential adviser of
the Korean emperor, post which he
filled to the highest satisfaction of both
the Korean emperor and the Japanese
government He was several times
decorated by the emperor of japan.