On March 22, 1908, four Korean men chosen by the associations accosted Stevens at the Fairmont Hotel, where he was staying. Their leader, a man by the name of
Earl Lee who was described as fluent in English, asked him if he had indeed made the statements attributed to him in the newspaper, and whether "Japanese were not killing off the Koreans". He answered yes to the first question and no to the second, then proceeded to tell Lee that he had "probably been too long away from his country to know the exact condition of the Government."[18] Upon this, the four men began to strike Stevens with chairs, knocking him down and causing him to strike his head against the marble flooring; Stevens backed up against the wall until help arrived. After the assault, Lee was quoted as saying, "We are all very sorry that we did not do more to him."[18]
The next day, two of the chair fighters, Chang In Hwan and Chun Myung Un, loitered at the San Francisco railroad station, knowing that Stevens was leaving the city. When he didn’t show, the Koreans shifted their stakeout to the ferry landing. Stevens approached the ferry with the Japanese Consul General, Chozo Koike, incongruously carrying Stevens’ luggage.
Chun’s hand was wadded with a bandage that concealed a pistol—exactly in the manner of Leon Czolgosz, who had assassinated President William McKinley in 1901 in retribution for the U.S. slaughter of Filipino freedom fighters. But the bandage jammed the trigger and the pistol wouldn’t fire. Chun, confused and furious, hit Stevens in the face with the pistol. Stevens grabbed for him and Chun took off like a frightened schoolboy, with Stevens rampaging after him up the cobbled street.
"Chang, the second Korean gunman, stepped in behind Stevens, leveled his own pistol and pulled the trigger just as Chun turned to see if Stevens was gaining on him. Chang’s first round hit Chun full in the chest. The next two bullets struck Stevens in the back and brought him crashing to the cobblestones. Consul General Koike and a crowd of Americans collared the two Koreans, and the Americans began to shout, “Lynch the Japs!” Koike’s comments were not recorded, but an American lawyer stepped out of the mob and argued, while the Koreans were being beaten up, that they deserved a fair trial."
These were Stevens Assasins:Jang In-hwan:
Jang, a Christian, emigrated from Korea to Hawaii in February 1905, and from there to the continental United States in August 1906
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A Korean independence activist:
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