 When Pancho Villa self-destructed on the battlefield a year later, Hopkins had already faded into the background.He supported Villa's resurgence a few years later and supported the rise of Adolfo de la Huerta in the 1920s.When Hopkins died on June 22, 1932, "The New York Times" ran an obituary of the Washington lawyer who had revolutionary chieftains move at his behest like marionettes.