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Hopkinson, William

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He had served in the Indian Police as an Inspector in Calcutta.

He was employed in Vancouver as an Interpreter of "Hindoo" by the Immigration Service in 1909.

In 1910 he became an agent of the RCMP and monitored the Ghadar Party activities in North America.

He was assasinated by Mewa Singh in 1914 in the Vancouver Courthose after he declared that his agent Bela Singh had fired in self defence at the funeral in the Vancouver Sikh Temple and would be acquitted.

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