Ex parte Michele

RUDKIN, District Judge.

This was a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, upon which the writ was issued by my predecessor in office to E. L. Wells, immigrant inspector of the Department of Commerce and Labor, in whose custody the petitioner was held. The officer to whom the writ was directed has made return that he is holding the petitioner under a warrant of deportation issued by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, based on a hearing had before the immigrant inspector at Walla Walla, and the deportation warrant and the report of the hearing before the inspector are made a part of the return.…