Show KOREAN ANXIOUS FOR V CROWN YN OF MARTYRDOM f Slayer of Famous American V j. j V Asks Court to Order 34 Him Hanged V San Francisco Dec DeCo 26 Pleading PI Pleading for lor death and the crown of oC martyrdom I. I W. W Chang tho the Korean who ho slew lew Durham Durham Durham Dur Dur- ham W. W Stevens Jap Japanese nese advisor to toV V tho the court of at Korea at tho the Ferry building build build- ing ng and found guilty of ot murder In tho tild second degree this morning bogged J Judge Cook to sentence him to be lie hanged I When ben the case caso came camo up for sentence V tho the prisoner called McGill and tho the interpreters In Interpreters Interpreters In- In I and c curried on an Imp Impassioned storied conversation When han this was wasil il repeated to the court it ft appeared that k Chang Charig had asked for the extreme pena penalty penalty pen pen- alty of ot the tho law He declared that h he a would wee weep his heart out in pilson 91 that he ru fully I expected to be bo hanged when he ha undertook un the crime and that 7 II his hie ono one consolation had been th the thought ht of his hie lIfo life for tor hi hlo S unhappy country I II I r V However Howe under the law lew Jud Judge e Cook V t cannot annot administer extreme punishment I J The Jury In Chang's case realizing i that his mind had hd been in Inflamed amed by Ji A stories atones of at Koreas Korea's oppression by the theL 1 L Japanese and Stevens Stevens' defense of or the V. V II Jap Japanese nelo when he arrived In this country coun- coun V J V tl try try returned a verdict of murder In inthe a th the tho second degree for which tho the ato- ato tute only prescribes life 1110 Imprisonment V or rTh peculiar circumstance of oC the iho ciau case c io I led d the court to continue sentence until next |