Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-27
FANATIC FACES
DEATH FOR
MURDER
TRIAL OF KOREAN WHAN !.
CHANG IN SAN FRANCISCO
Slayer of Durham White Stew
ems Shows No RemorSeS for
Deed; His Countrymen Raise
Ample Funds for Defense.
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San Francisco, July ga murder
trial of international interest will
be called in the superior court in this
city tomorrow morning before Judge
Carroll Cook, when In Whan Chang,
the Korean, who on March 23 fa-
tally wounded Durham White Stew
ems. Japanese adviser to the Korean
emperor at Seoul Mr.. Stevens was
shot as he was about to board fer
ry boat in this city en- route to Wash
ington The bullet passed through
his abdomen and he died on March
26, after the most hopeful reports
of his physicians for his recovery. At
his bedside were the japanese Consul
General Chozo Koike, a number of
prominent physicians and friends.
Chang, the assassin. whose first shot
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.
The shooting of Mr.. Stevens was
carefully planned and carried out in
a sensational manner. Accompanied
| by the Japanese consul general, the
diplomat had arrived at the ferry in
an automobile on his way to take a
train for the east on a vacation from
his long service in the orient. Chang
Sung Chun and, it is believed, two
other Koreans who have never been
apprehended, lay in wait for Mr.. Stew
ems and as he alighted from an au-
tomobile at the ferry, one Of the Ko-
reans walked up and struck him a
vicious blow in the face. Mr.. Stew
ems started in pursuit of his assailant,
when Chang who held a revolver in
his hand, covered by a handkerchief,
began firing. His first shot struck
lChun his associate, aud seriously
IWounded him TWO other shots were
fired, striking Mr.. Stevens, one in the
back near the right shoulder, and the
other several inches lower, the bullet
DETECTING and passing through the alb
domen. japanese Consul General
/ Koike came to the rescue of Mr.. Stew
ems, placed him 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.
/ Chang, who is a diminutive Korean.
80 years old, and who looks like a
boy of Is, declared he acted from
patriotic motives, believing with a
lcertain number of his countrymen in
this city, that Mr.. Stevens had been
instrumental in giving Japan control
of Korea He has never expressed
any regret for his act and believes
he has done his country a great SER
vice. Ample funds for his defense
have been provided by Koreans in this
country, as well as in Korea, and he
will be represented in court by able
counsel
Durham White Stevens had long
been prominent i'm oriental public life.
He was secretary of the United States
legation at Toxic in 1878, subsequent
lly becoming counsellor to the Japa-
nese legation at Washington. Thence
he went to Toxic. where, after ser
vice in the foreign office, he became
a member Of the commission sent by
Japan to Korea to adjust difficulties
which threatened to involve Japan
land China in 1887. Afterward he
held various posts under the Japa-
nese government and enjoyed the con-
fdence of the emperor and the high
est government officials He was
sent to Korea by the emperor Of Jap
an after the Russo-Japanese war and
became the confidential adviser of the
Korean emperor, a post which he fill
ed to the highest satisfaction Of both
the Korean emperor and the japanese
government. He was several times
decorated by the emperor OF Japan.