Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1908-03-24 | Page 2 | Why He Shot Stevens

WHY HE SHOT STEVENS Korean Willing to Die if His Act Aids His Native Land San Francisco March llarch 23 I W V Chang the Korean wh shot D W 1 Stevens made a written statement to tonight to tonight night A translation has been made mad from which the following extracts are arc taken This day I shot Stevens Steens I shot him hll because he was the main factor In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Japanese reign reig of bloodshed and oppression In Korea Kora and because he heas heas heas as the head and adviser of the regime re was responsible for the deaths of our nur fathers mothers and brothers in Kora Kor t Stevens Steens Is the adviser of the Korean government paid by the Korean gov government but who Is working for the thc Interests of Japan and against those of the nation naton who looked d to him as a aji 1 American for Justice and good rule He has endeavored to make the people cf f the United States of America Amerl 1 leli leJ ne e that Japanese protection of Korea was w s the best thing for that nation naton in the present and would be so In the utU He lied led when he said that the Korean an people were happy under Japanese i j ule ul ulSo So for his falsehoods I shot Stevens If I I kill ki him and I 1 die it will wi b a S warning waring to others other who take his bis c to rule rub justly justy and to deal with the pie In his care with wih kindness s and hu humanity humanity manity manI I will wi make io no o complaint to the punishment that t wi ill be bo meted out Ot to me and should my act aid my coun comma try tr in its Is it struggles for freedom I will die nobly nobl and well weIl wellI wel wi I shot Stevens Steens and I 1 wish to die At 1130 tonight the physicians ut u the St St Francis Frncis hospital state st te that Stevens St ens danger is resting easy and in no immediate I