Ex parte Isojoki

Petitioner, a Swedish woman, 25 years of age and unmarried, having been denied the right to enter this country upon returning thereto from a vaudeville venture in Australia, and being held in custody for deportation by the immigration authorities, has applied to this court to be discharged upon habeas corpus.

The exclusion of petitioner is based upon two grounds: (1) That she has admitted the commission of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude; and (2) that she is a person likely to become a public charge.

[1] The matter was heard upon demurrer to the petition, from which and the accompanying record it appears: That petitioner came to this country from Sweden in February, 1910, and remained here until October, 1913. That during this period she worked for a year and a half as a domestic servant, and then 'took up the teaching of swimming and giving exhibitions as a professional swimmer, in which occupations she was engaged until her departure for Australia in 1913. During a portion of this period she lived with one Carl Ihrmark as his wife, both she and Ihrmark being unmarried. She also admits having had sexual intercourse with one Carl Eklund in Sweden, and with one Arthur…