Show PLOT TO RESTORE COREAS QUEEN I I A Romance Equalling Rider Hag gards Productions NEW YORK Jan 12A dispatch to the Herald from Shanghai says A romance equaling anything which Rider Haggard ever wrote comes from Seoul the capital of Corea relating to the conspiracy which broke out there last November The facts are known only to a few persons one being the king and all have the strongest motives for concealment con-cealment > I will be remembered that on Nov 28 an unsuccessful plot culminated in an attack on the palace by a number of Coreans belonging to the queens party I Waeber the Russian charge daffaires Drs Allen and Un derwood and other Americans were accused on apparently good grounds of being privy to the plot They were in fact said to have been on the snot simultaneously with the abortive attempt They however denied all tempt al complicity com-plicity The king and the Japanese being warned beforehand posted extra ex-tra guards and foiled the conspiracy Your correspondents information now shows that 1 Waeber and the English Eng-lish consul shared the secret the object ob-ject being to sieze the ministers expel the Japanese free the king from the latters influence and RESTORE THE QUEEN who was reputed to be dead but who was in reality alive The Russian secretary sec-retary of legation was the leading spirit in the conspiracy and was deputed de-puted to conduct the queen from her place of hiding to the palace The failure of the attempt necessitated the keeping of the secret of the queen being be-ing in existence which is now for the first time divulged When in October frst tme the Coreans and Japanese broke into the palace the queen scenting danger lied hastily without speaking to her women to an obscure outhouse and I saw the bodies of her ladies in waiting I dragged to the pyre prepared for them outside and watched the completion of the tragedy from her hiding place The QUEEN WAS CONCEALED for an hour and a half every moment expecting discovery She fled at last through a secret passage to the old palace and thence after changing her dress made her escape outside the walls of the city where she reached a place of safety When the Japanese and Coreans examined the charred bodies of the women who had been bodes te burned the king and some others shrewdly feigned that they had discovered dis-covered the identity of the queen in one of the victims lest a search should reveal her whereabouts and lead to her murder The Japanese accepted the accounts of the queens death as true M Waeber and HUber the latter being the German consul must have been privy to the secret which was however well kept Three Coreans were strangled last week as the queens murderers while the trial of Viscount Muru and other Japanese officials is proceeding at Hiroshima for the murder of s woman who still lives Li Han Shin the leader of the last abortive plot Is in hiding here An American friend who came hereon here-on the Russian cruiser Otvajny rays that Russia is using the supposed murder of the queen as a weapon against the Japanese although well knowing its falsity The queen has been killed by rumor twice before |