Ex parte Li Dick

RAY, District Judge.

The petitioner, 14 Dick', was apprehended and taken into custody at the city of Utica, near the central part of the state of New York, in the Northern district of New York, on the 22d day of October, 1909, on the charge that he was then and there a Chinese alien, and that he had surreptitiously entered the United States at or near the town of North Burke, in the county of Franklin, in said district, from the Dominion of Canada, without having produced a certificate of admission or having been examined or inspected as required by the immigration laws and regulations of the…