shot Mr. Hopkinson, and I will have to die, but it is for the others that the case will be properly represented, and to help all the others, and show this treatment to the public, and bring it in front of them. There is no justice issued out to you by the judges, nor the police, nor any of them, and that is why I am giving my life to show this matter up. I understand God's ways and am a God-fearing man.
I say
my prayers for an hour in the morning and half an hour at night. When I know that this wrong has been done I can- not expect God to bless me if my prayers were not accepted. I know my prayers have been accepted and God knows be- tween the right and the wrong. In our prayers it says that we must see the right done. We cannot shut our eyes and see wrong done.
"Let our best judges and barristers fathom this out, why Mr. Hopkinson has been shot, and get at the end of this The other trouble. They are always doing evil before us.
men may go and drink and do whatever they like and go to the immigration and are accepted as right. We that are God-fearing and say our prayers are crashed and dragged down. I cannot, as a God-fearing man, look on that any longer.
In Sumas I had a case against me and I got a pistol and the immigration men caught me and Iwas taken in front of the judge and was fined $58. After that case was dismissed they brought another case against me, saying that I had brought the firearms from one country to the other and that time Bela Singh, Hopkinson and
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"When I was locked up at Sumas they took me out of the gaol and Hopkinson,
and Bela Singh said: 'You have got to say that these pistols are for Bhag Singh, Bal- want Singh and Harnan.' When they took me out of gaol Mr. Hopkinson and Bela Singh said to me, 'I will get you off free if you say that Bhag Singh, Balwant Singh and Harnan have given you these pistols to give to Mr. Rahim. I turned around and told them, 'You can cut me into little bits and I will not tell that lie for you.' Bela and Hopkin- Bingh said this to me, but the others,
son told Bela to say it to me. First of all, the three said it and then Bela Singh kept saying it to me. First of all, the three kept following me around for days, and afterwards only Bela Singh.
"Mr. Hopkinson said to me again, 'I am all powerful here. I can get you right off if you make that statement.' I told Mr. Hopkinson, I cannot. I am a God-fearing man. I may be cut into little pieces, but I cannot say that.' Then Bela Singh said to me, 'Give Mr. Hopkinson some dollars and get it settled.' I said, 'I will give you the dollars, but a lie I will not tell. The case where I was charged they had it put aside and dismissed. I paid $40 to Bela Singh. Mr. Hop- kinson was present.
"They told me the whole case is settled. There will be nothing more about it. I do not know if they had really settled this case or not, but I got a letter from the Ottawa Government. After my case was all dismissed from there,
one day Bela Singh took me down to the immigration office. He took me inside and Mr. Hopkinson was present. Mr. Hopkinson started writing a letter, and he turned around and asked me to tell him where I came from, my father's name, my village, and everything. Mr. Hopkinson and Bela Singh were present in the office. I told them all this and they wrote it down. Mr. Hopkinson said, 'Do you not remem- ber I got you off five years' gaol the other day! Now, you tell me the names of the men I want to know.' They then asked me to give the names of the men that are against the Government. They said, 'You know them; give out their names and tell us. I told them I did not know who is with the Government or against the Government. I can give you no information."
Then again they said to me in that office, Mr. Hopkinson and Bela Singh, to say that those pistols that I had at Sumas were given to me by Bhag Singh, Balwant Singh and Harnan Singh, to give to Mr. Rahim, and then we will be your friends. No,' I said, 'I have given you the dollars before and now again you tighten me up and want me to tell lies. I cannot give innocent men away and get them punished by making false statements.' Then they said to me, 'If you will not make this statement then you are no friend of ours. We cannot make any friendship with you.' Then Mr. Hopkinson went and brought another man, who was a white man. I cannot say if he was a barrister or what he was, but Mr. Hopkinson brought him there.
"Mr. Hopkinson took the letter that had been written first, the truthful letter, and tore it up; before he went out to call this strange man in he destroyed the proper letter with the truth in it. And then when he brought the other man he started to write down another statement. I do not know who he was, whether he was an immigration barrister or who he was. Mr. Hopkinson and Bela Singh kept on saying, 'We got you off five years, cannot you make this statement for us!' And I still refused and said, 'No.' But told him exactly how I went to Sumas and what happened at Sumas, and I made no wrong statements. For some lot that we had in Seattle that is what we went for and I told the truth in that statement. I cannot tell you any more why we went there, only for this lot.
Then they kept talking in English, which I do not under- stand. I neither read nor write it. Mr. Hopkinson said to me, Cannot you give us some of the names? Do not be afraid. Put down Rabim's name, or anyone. Do not be afraid I will help you through'
"Mr Hopkinson said, 'When you went to Sumas was Rahim at the Sikh temple or not? Cannot you tell us that?' I said, 'I do not know' Mr Hopkinson again reminded me by saying, I have got you off five years about those pistols and you cannot do this little thing for me Come along and make this false statement Do not be afraid." Then Bela Singh turned to Mr. Hopkinson and said, 'Mr. Hopkinson, this is a God-fearing man who says his prayers. Do not make him tell any lies. After they wrote this letter I would not
sign it or have anything to do with it, and Bela Singh and I went out to my home. This is the whole story; it stops here.
Then the letter came to me from Ottawa. I went to the post office and they told me. 'Go and get Mr. Hopkinson and you can get this letter. If Mr. Hopkinson signs for this And I went letter you will get it; otherwise you cannot.'
off to get Mr. Hopkinson to the immigration When I met Mr Hopkinson we talked and Mr. Hopkinson said, 'You are a witness of Bela Singh,' when we were going along to the post office. Mr. Hopkinson said to me on the way from there, "Now, you are going to give evidence about Bela Singh. You turn around and give evidence on this side in favor of Bela Singh, otherwise it will be bad for you. You will go the same road that Bhag Singh and Badden Singh have gone,' and threatened me.
"On the way from the post office he said this to me. I said, 'Mr. Hopkinson, after taking money from me gud threatening me and getting me to write all these things, why do you tell me that I will be killed like Bhag Singh and Badden Singht What are things coming to, and then you write that letter which you knew was not true and you take dollars from me and then you want me to give evidence now in favor of Bela Singh and threaten my life.' Mr. Hopkin- son said to me, 'I am all powerful in this Vancouver." Then he said at the post office after the letter was opened it was about the pistols, etc., and it was handed to me, and they opened the letter and read it was about the pistols, and in that letter I was exonerated, there was no more case against mė. Mr. Hopkinson went to the immigration office and I went home.
"All night long it haunted me that here I am a man that says my prayers and these men harrass me like this with these wrong statements and are trying to disgrace me and bring me into trouble. I kept this in my heart all that night, and could not sleep with thinking that this disgrace should follow me about. Why should Mr. Hopkinson bring me down to this disgrace? Then two or three days after was going along Hastings Street there I met Baboo Singh. I said, 'Good morning!' to him and asked him how he was. Baboo Singh said to me, Which side are you going to give evidence, our side or their side?' I said to him, I do not know just now, I will see at the time. Then from the other side of the street Gurdit Singh was coming. Gurdit Bingh's village is Bilga.
"When Gurdit Singh was coming Baboo Singh used bad language to Gurdit Singh and said, "I am going to ask Mewa Singh in front of Gurdit Singh and see if he will say on which side he is going to give evidence,' to get me to say in Gurdit Singh's presence. Then again, when Gurdit Singh was there he asked me which side I was going to speak for. I turned round and said, 'I will tell the truth I saw in the temple, and nothing else." Gurdit Singh told me to tell the truth and say whatever I saw in the temple. Do not go behind the truth. Baboo Singh turned round and said to
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