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Show HINDU IS ADJUDGED i GUILTY OF MURDER VANCOUVER. B. , Oct. 0 ! Mewa Singh, i Kindn. wab found guilty by a jury today of the murder of William Wil-liam Hopkinson, Canadian immigration inspector, and sentenced to be hanged January 11 next. The Hindu shot Hop- i j kinson in the, corridor of the Yaucou-! Yaucou-! ver courthouse nine d-.vw ago. I Inspector Hopkinson was active in preventing the landing ci several huu-drrd huu-drrd Hindus who airm-d here some months ago on tho steamship Komcgata Mam. which had been chcrterl bv rich countryman cf theirs in oroW In; test the British Columbia exclusion i laws. After exhaustiug every leaai ; means and making riotous attacks on j immigration officers who hoarded the j vessel, the II i nd us were f i na lly de- j pr.rted. It was necessary to employ the J provincial militia to enforce the de-! de-! portalion order. |