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The appellant, Chu Tai Ngan, an alien woman, is held under a warrant of deportation issued by the Acting Secretary of Commerce and Labor on the 30th day of December, 1912, reciting:

—and directing that she be returned to the country whence she came at the expense of the steamship company importing her. The court below denied a writ of habeas corpus applied for in her behalf, and from the order denying the writ the present appeal is prosecuted.

*447 The sole question presented by the appeal is the sufficiency of the testimony taken ad the hearing before the immigrant inspector 'to warrant the finding that the appellant is a prostitute, and was found an inmate of a house of prostitution and practicing prostitution subsequent to her entry into the United States. It appears from the testimony of a police officer of the city of San Francisco that certain premises located over a store at 921 Grant street in Chinatown, which also have an entrance leading from. St. Eouis alley, had the general reputation of being a house of prostitution, and was such on the 22(1 day of March, 1912; that on that date the officer received information, that certain Chinese alien women were held in said…