105 F. 188 | N.D. Ohio | 1900
This is a proceeding on the part of the United States to have Lung Hong, a Chinaman, removed from the country on the ground that he was unlawfully found here. The facts are, briefly stated, that on the 18th day of January, 1900, he was found in a Chinese laundry at Lima, Ohio. At the time he was so' found, he was laboring in the laundry, and, according to a stipulation agreed to between the parties, he had been laboring in this laundry for six months or more, and was, therefore, within.'the meaning of the statute, a common laborer. The defense made is that he came within the privileged classes named in the several Chinese exclusion acts, and that he was a merchant doing business at No.