In re Yamasaka

HANFOBD, District Judge.

The petitioner, a Japanese person, alleges that he is unlawfully imprisoned and deprived of his liberty by Samuel C. Walker, immigrant inspector of the United States, acting under authority of the secretary of the treasury.' A writ of habeas corpus having issued as prayed for, the immigrant inspector has made a return thereto, in which he certifies that on or about the 1st day of June, 1899, he made inquiry and collected evidence respecting the petitioner, and from the evidence so gathered, and the admissions of the petitioner, he, the said inspector, did find that the…