Nagle

This is an appeal from an order denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The appellant claimed citizenship through his father, and the father, in turn, claimed citizenship through his father, the grandfather of the appellant. The alleged grandfather testified that he was married three times; that his first wife, named Yee Shee, died in 1901; that he married his second wife, also named Yee Shee, late in 1902 or early in 1903; that his second wife died in 1918; that he married his third wife in 1922; that he had four sons and one daughter by his first wife; .that he had no children by his second wife, and one son by his third wife. The alleged father testified that his father was married three times; that his first wife was named Yee Shee, and his second wife Wong Shee; that his father had no children by his first wife, but he had eight sons and one daughter by his second wife, and that the second wife, who died in 1918, was his mother. He was then reminded that in 1911, when applying for admission to the United States, he testified that the name of his mother was Yee Shee, and that she died in 1901. To this he answered that Yee Shee was the first wife of his father, but not…