Ex parte Jeu Haw Bong

NORCROSS, District Judge.

This matter was heard upon the return to an order to show cause why a writ of habeas corpus should not issue.

The application of the petitioner to enter the United State as the adopted son of Jeu Yow, a Chinese merchant residing in the city of St. Louis, was denied by the Board of Special Inquiry of the Immigration Bureau, and on appeal therefrom was dismissed by the Secretary of Labor, and petitioner’s return to China directed.

Petitioner relies on a written document claimed to have been delivered to the mother of petitioner at the time of her alleged marriage to Jeu…