Show I Diplomat Stevens Shot By Koreans A W WAS AS V PLANNED i 1 Orientals Maddened by th the Newspaper Stories I I Given Out 1 I I STREET REET TRAGEDY FOLLOWS ASSAULT While Seriously Wounded Man Believed to Have Chance for Life i J I SAN FRANCISCO March 23 23 Id I'd- lowing louring au an attack by four Koreans at atthe atthe the Fairmont hotel last night D. D W. W Stevens a member of the Japanese council counell At Seoul was vas shot hot and perhaps fatally wounded wound this morning at the ferry depot as he was about to leave for tori Washington The shooting was d done ne neby by N. N W W. Chun a n K Korean rean Stevens was vas shot twice one bullet penetrating ting his right lung and the second the groin iA A third bullet struck a companion of or th the tho shooter I. I W W. Chong A mob of five hundred men pursued tho shooter who ran from the tho scene and he lie was captured by H. H Sexton Sexto a deputy in the assessors assessor's office Mr Stevens and tho the wounded Korean were wore taken to the Harbor hospital hospital hospital hospi hospi- tal where they received temporary at at- Later they were vere taken to the tha Central Emergency nty hospital Mr Stevens Stevens Stev Stev- ens accompanied by the Japanese consul consul con con- sul suI had bad just stepped out of the hotel bus when whon several Koreans approached thorn them one of whom said a few words to Stevens and th then n struck him in the tho face facer He Ha then drew a revolver covered with a handkerchief and began shoot shooting at Stevens At tho the Harbor hospital Dr Hill extracted a bullet bullot from the wounded Korean who had been shot through tho the lungs One Ono of the shot entered Stevens' Stevens back below tho the scapula and penetrated the lower portion of the tho thoung lung The other othel- entered his loin and penetrated the liver liver liver liv liv- er possibly entering the the intestines intestine Stevens is a man of strong physique and andis andis is in splendid health and it is expected he At the tho Central Emergency hospital Mr fr Stevens ens was examined by Chief Surgeon W W. I I. I Terry and ami Sur Surgeon eon T. T II B. He lie was then prepared for removal removal re re- moval mo to another hospital Japanese c Consul and and F. F. F T T. Richardson tho the American secretary to the Japanese consulate were in constant attendance on Mr Jr Stevens As S soon as ho was vas romo removed ed from the operating table Mr Stevens called for forthe tho the Associated Pre Press representative c to whom ho pave gave ave the thc following version of the shooting As As I 1 got ot out of the Fairmont hotel omnibus several Beveral Koreans approached me One of them struck me in the tho th face lacerating my m- check As I 1 started started started start start- ed to pursue him another Korean began be he- gait gan an to shoot hoot at me The first shot missed JI C an and struck the Korean I was pursuing The Tho next Dext two shots took effect ef effect of- of in back This Th is evidently tIr is the tho work of a small band of student agitators a t tors in and about San Sl Francisco who resent tho the fact that tho the Japanese have a protectorate protectorate over o Korea and believe that I sin aid sinto to some extent responsible for this thi condition con of affairs in their country Prearranged Affair The attack on Mr Ur Stevens Stevens' at the Fairmont hotel last night was the result result result re re- sult of a 3 mass meeting of Korean societies societies societies' so so- of San Francisco which appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed four permanent members Eal ERI Lee C C. C K Chung Y 1 M M. Moon and U. U S 3 Choy Cho all ull young men a n committee to interview Stevens to ascertain n hi his views as expressed in the press after Ms his arrival The opinions expressed by him liim were decidedly f favorable to tho the Japanese Japa Japa- nese neso in Korea The four Koreans called shortly after 9 0 o'clock clock last ni night ht at th the Fairmount Lee went to the clerk and asked for Stevens who came downstairs downstairs down down- stairs to meet tho delegation tion Ho lie walked with them to a a. room at the extreme north end of the corridor where the party was soon engaged en a cd in earnest st con conversation versa The Tho spokesman of tho committee was Lee Lle who speaks the vernacular fluently He asked Stevens if ho had made the statements attributed to him in in the press and the diplomatic adviser nd relied replied re- re plied lied in th the affirmative Tho rho interrogations a. ions took the form a close examination I Stevens being boina questioned catl categorically ori on each sentence int He Ito added more inure about the great work ork Japan i i is doing for or Korea orea and how ho howell well the Koreans love lo OAtho O A tho the Japanese pause government tro and policy in h iq their homo bomo lan land Showed Him Clipping CUpping Stevens StO was shown an nn Q excerpt from froma rou a n. local newspaper iu in which ho bo was wa quoted as saying Japan is is doin doing in m in Korea KoreR and aud for the tho Koreans what lInt the United States is is doing doing do- do ing ingin in the tho Philippines for the tho Filipinos modifying its methods method only only to suit spit tho the somewhat different conditions with which it has to deal n Tho The Koreans asked Stevens Sto ns if he was r responsible for that hat statement Tho Thu adviser ad- ad answered answered in In the affirmative The Continued on ou loge 6 6 I DIPLOMAT STEVENS Continued from Page Pago 1 men men nen wanted to know if tho the Japanese were not killin killing off the Koreans Ko Ko- reans Stevens said no no The spokesman spokes pokes man then wanted to know if all the thc Korean Korean Ko Ko- rean officials had bad not beon been eliminated and Stevens a again in responded to the contrary adding that the young roun man had iad probably been too long on away from his tiis country to know tho the exact condition condition condi condi- tion of the tho government Then the attack be began an Stevens was knocked down and beaten with tb hotel chairs His head bead struck the marble flooring but be he quickly t rose and nd seizing seizing seiz seiz- ing a chair placed his b back k against tho the wall wull and held his assailants at bay until until un un- un til help arrived After the tho aS assault Eal Lee one of ot the Korean committee said Called Him HinI LiarI LiarI LiarI Liar I called him hiss a liar when I Ka waa we held but thin thin- would not let us tl fight bt So wo we left Wo o are all an ve verv sorry that wo we did not do more to him f Speaking for tor the committee Leo Lee said that Stevens is ie ie paid by bj the Korean government gov gow o but it i. is doing doin what the Korean people do not want him to do I That is said L Lee e he is talking falso false about us and the Japanese In reality reality re re- aUt ho is in in tho the service of Japan Sinco Since tho the Japanese bc began an to protect prote V Korea KOres thousands of my mJ countrymen have been Deen killed The Japanese soldiers soldiers sol sol sol- diers hold P ip peasants a for their property property prop prop- erty and kni if refused About five hundred villa villages es in in my iny country have been destroyed by the tho Japanese troops in a little HUle moro more than a year since the trouble be began an The Japanese T want ant to too o op n schools in in Korea to teach their own owa lan language a e and letters ers but no school unless it ii be Japanese They disbanded the Korean troops because they thoy were lo al and so lon long as as' the Koreans had soldiers Japan could not do much in in my mv country They are sending into Korea thousands thou sands o ot or Japanese c every or month and putting put put- ting them in the place of m my countrymen country country- men If Japan controls my country two or three years then Korea will be Japan or a a. part of it It is false when hen Stevens states that tho the Japanese will withdraw from Korea People who are arc trying to do what is ri right ht in in Korea Korea Ko Ko- Ko- Ko rea rca are arrested by the Japanese and taken away to starve stane Japan has haa planned to send scud si six million emigrants into Korea in the next ei eight ht years year to supplant Koreans and tho the great reat work has been placed under the direction of former Prime Minister T T. T Katura It has been boen stated in in a Korean paper paper pa pa- per por that Stevens came camo to the United States to spy espy all over tho the country forthe forthe for forthe the Japanese army He told me ho came Jo to o America meric to to settle a a. claim of an American electrical company in ih Ko Ko- rOil rca The Japanese wanted to take tho the pro property of tho the company and the corporation corporation cor cor- protested against the taking of it so 50 that th the the matter matter has to bo be adjusted adjusted ad ad- here Wo Vo want it understood that Stevens is IS real really employed by the tho Japanese government to spread a false impression about conditions in my country We arc are all sorry we let him himoff himoff himoff off so 80 CM easy casy but what could TTO we do with mth all the people at the hotel holding us back Advised Korean Council Counell Mr l' l Stevens has hns been adviser to the Korean council since November ember 1904 From 1553 until that time he be was Ic legal adviser to tho the Japanese lo legation at Washington lIe Ho arrived in in this cit city Friday on the Nippon Mara Maru tl to sp spend nd aVa a Va vacation nhon in Washington After the attack upon him at t the Fairmont hotel last ni night ht he be said The Tho whole affair was in the nature o ol of a corned comedy I do not know who the tho Koreans wore Three of Jf them were undoubtedly un tin doubt dl students Ono One of them I be lieve hove I met two years vears a ago o in in Korea but T r would not Dot be sure I have no DO enmity a against inet the students they were merely morel mistaken in their zeal for their native land I dont don't think they were cro arme armed One of them exhibited a 3 jack iak knife I am told but I did lid not notE E bc bee e it |