Weedin

The petition of the appellant for writ of habeas corpus was denied by the District Court for the Western District of Washington, Northern Division, and he appeals from that order. The appellant, when 9 years of age, was admitted to the United States at Seattle on May 8, 1923, as the minor son of Ng See Jow, also known as Ng Yuen Lip, a domiciled Chinese merchant- of Seattle. On December 6,1927, an inspector of the immigration service found the appellant in a laundry operated by Ng Sing. Both were arrested for being unlawfully within the United States. A department warrant was issued thereafter for the arrest of the appellant, and thereafter he was ordered deported on the ground that his entry and certificate of identity were procured by fraud. At the time of. the arrest, Ng Sing, laundryman, in whose custody appellant was found and with whom he had been living from July, 1923, testified that the appellant was his son. On the next day the appellant testified before the inspector that his name was Ng Set Yow, that Ng Goon Sing was his father, and that he lived with his - father at Port Ludlow, Wash., all the time from about two months after his admission in 1923. Ng Goon Sing again…