백범 김구의 치하포사건 관련기록 검토 = A Review of the Interrogatory about Kim Goo, Packbum Focusing on the Affair in Chihapo

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In Kim Goo`s history before he took part in the provisional government of the Republic of Korea, one of the most meaningful affairs is that he killed To- Jeon-Ymg-Ymg, an Japanese, in fihpo , Anac-goon, Hanghe province in March 1896. In general, there are three existing records on the affair. One is the comtemporary records showing the statements of persons associated with this affair. These are the four rounds of interrogatories of Kim Goo at Hue-Joo district and at Km-n` police station in Incheon and two rounds of interrogatories of Lee Hwa-bo who managed a tavern in Anac-goon where the affair happened. Another is Kim Goo`s memories, what is called, Packbum`s Diary. His autographic Diary is, in total, 215 pages of the first and the second volumes, 24 pages of which are about the affair in Chihpo and his prison life in Incheon. He recorded this affair on many pages in comparison with its very short time, and unchangingly put emphasis on The Avenge on the Death of the Empress. The other is the record which is firstly publicized by Son Choong-moo in 1976. This record had been already introduced withn the country before the interrogatory of Kim Goo which was reported in the third volume of Packbum`s complete works. and the testimony of Lee Hwa-bo were known. This is made up of three rounds of interrogatories about Kim Goo and two rounds of interrogatories about Lee Hum-bo. This record includes the date of interrogation, the name of examiner, judge and the recorder as well as contents of the interrogatory. Among these, the contents of interrogation were different from those of Padcbum`s complete works, but were similiar to those of the Packbum`s Diary which was published in 1947. The important thing is that the participants of the legal procedure in the affair in Chihpo are the same as those in Padcbum`s complete works. The contents of three rounds of interrogatories at Incheon court is composed of 22 kinds of subjects. Such contents as the name of conspirer, the killing method, the use of the m s , and the dispose of personal belongs of the victim are repeatedly interrogated. Although the expression of The Avenge on the Death of the Empress was written in the record of the third interrogatory at Incheon court, the expression connected with the Empress was shown only one time in that of the tree rounds of interrogation. Even though the contents of the statements in complete works were well put in order, we can easily grasp the intention of making the essence of the affair in Chihpo regarded as the planned robbery and murder to plunder the property of Japanese merchants. Considering the large quantity of the trial records and the contents of 22 times interrogatories, however, it is difficult to analogize the motive of the affair in Chihapo on the basis of the records of interrogation. On the other side, even if the statements of three interrogations were mixed up, Kim Goo`s memories on the affair in Chihap0 showed its consistency. They consistantly showed that the affair in Chihpo was not a simple robbery and murder but an action to wipe out a national disgrace, that it was to retaliate for the murder of the empress by killing even one `officer` and that it had the purpose to inquire into Japanese imprudence of killing the empress with a treaty concluded. Therefore, the records of process in the interrogations in complete works could not rightly report the motive of Kim Goo`s action, with the fact of the intervention of Japanese consulate in the process of the trial. As a result, nobody could approach the nature of the affair in Chihpo, in considering only this record of the interrogations as a historical material. In Contrast, there are full details of the process of the trial at Incheon court in Diary. More pages in Diary are alloted on the affair in clziapo than any other affair he has ever experienced. This means that Kim Goo thinks of the affair in Chiupo as the most meaningful one in his life.