Leffer

The appellant, an alien, was ordered to he deported, upon a finding that she was engaged in prostitution; and this proceeding was brought to test the validity of the order. By reference her petition incorporated the record made in the department and the issue was disposed of in the court below by a ruling sustaining the Commissioner’s demurrer. From the department record it appears, upon tlie testimony of two officers, that, having information petitioner was engaged in prostitution in Sacramento, they went to what was ostensibly a rooming house of which, admittedly, she was the proprietress. After some general conversation, she offered herself to them in such a way that, if their testimony is to be credited, there is left no room for doubt that she was engaged in prostitution of the most wanton character. They thereupon disclosed their official position and subjected her to an inquiry, in the course of which she stated that she had been practicing prostitution at that place for six months.

Upon the subsequent hearing, when she was represented by counsel, she denied that she had intended to make any such statement, giving as an explanation that her hearing was seriously impaired…