Nagle

These are appeals from orders denying applications for writs of habeas corpus. The appellants were ordered deported on the ground that they had been found connected with the management of a house of prostitution and assisting a prostitute. The two cases were heard on a single record before the immigration authorities, and have been submitted to this court on the same briefs.

’ The appellant Itow was the lessee and manager of certain premises in the city of San Jose, Cal., consisting of a pool room and living quarters on the first floor, and a number of rooms occupied by lodgers on the second floor. The testimony was ample to support a finding that prostitution was practiced in some of the rooms on the second floor for a period of about four months prior to the arrest, though perhaps not continuously. It was likewise sufficient to support a finding that this appellant was fully cognizant of that fact. The size of the premises, the mode of ingress and egress to and from the upper floor through the pool room and kitchen, and the fact that on at least two different occasions he directed parties to the room upstairs upon inquiry for the woman practicing prostitution there, leaves…