Nagle

This is an appeal from an order denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The only question involved is the relationship of the appellant to an American citizen. It appears from the record that the appellant arrived at the port of San Francisco from China on June 30, 1926, accompanied by an alleged brother, an alleged uncle, and his two sons. Numerous hearings were had before the Board of Special Inquiry, the last of which occurred on October 1, 1926. At that hearing, the appellant gave certain testimony, and was then asked if she had any additional statement to make. In response to the inquiry, she stated in substance that she knew that she had no mother, and that the statements that she had theretofore made to the various officers she *551 had been forced to make; that she knew that she had been sold by her aunt, living in Sun Woey City, and that the officers appreciated the situation in which she was placed; that her father died when she was a baby, and that she did not know his name, nor did she know how she was given into the care of the woman at Sun Woey City; that she did not remember seeing her mother; that a man whom she was told was her grandfather coached her from…