Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-04-21 | Page 2 | Marshall Will Not Surrender His Prisoner

MARSHALL WILL NOT SURRENDER HIS PRISONER NEW YORK, April 20. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing the' German embassn dor's demands de-mands lor the release of Wolfe von Jgel and the return of papers seized at tin: ' time of his arrest in the former oiVu-e he i of ( ';i ptain Franz von Pa fen. re-ca re-ca lied ( lee man mililarv at t ache, L ni ted St:it i's Attorney II. iSnowdcn Marshall reiterated tonight his determination to retain not only Von igel, but the documents. docu-ments. 1 Although Mr. Marshall refused to re-j re-j veal the basis for his firm stand, it was I learned from of her federal oflieers that j lie was fully prepared to furnish the tate department with evidence to prove that the least1 for the Von Papen oftiees, the point upon whieh the entire controversy con-troversy hinges, was drawn in the name j of Von' ljel. I Von Ijjid, the United States attorney (contends, was not a member of Kmbas-sador Kmbas-sador von Bernstorff s oiTi'dul family unit un-it il D'cmher, lfl. and he doubts if he van be classified as a member even after that period. The lease for the office?, federal authorities state, was made out by Von Igel during the time that he had no official connection with the German embassy. Mr. Marshall said he had turned the inquiry on this point over to '.'apt a in William B. Off ley of the department of just tee, who conducted the investigation which resulted in the returning of indictments in-dictments against Captain von Papen, Von Igel and th'ee others, on the charge of conspiring to blow up the Wellaud canal. Mr. Marshall denied officially that the confiscated papers had disclosed new pints or the existence of a German spy system in this country. Captain Tlaus Tauscher, indicted with Von Tgel for alleged complicity in the Weiland canal plot, surrendered himself him-self today, entered a temporary plea of not guiltv and was released in ifuOfb bail.