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Show MARSHALL SENDS 'PHOTOGRAPHS OF SEIZED PAPERS I NEW YORK, April 19. Wolfe von Igel will not be released from custody, and only a part of the documents seized , at the "time of his arrest on a charge j of being implicated in a plot to destroy the Welland canal will be returned to the German embassy, United States At- j torney H. Snowden Marshall announced tonight. His statement was made in explanation of the latest phase of the tangle which followed the arrest of the - former secretary to Captain Franz von Papen, recalled" German military attache, at-tache, and who now is declared by Embassador Em-bassador von Bernstorff to be an attache at-tache of tho German embassy. ''I have not even considered the release re-lease of Von Igel." Mr. Marshall continued. con-tinued. (The legality of his arrest was definitely settled, so far as my office is concerned, early today. " Following Yon Igel 's arrest the protest of the German embassador was , made to the secretary of state und Mr. Lansing referred the matter to the attorney at-torney general's office. When the protest pro-test reached mv office the only question to be decided was whether Von Igel was a member of the German embassador's embassa-dor's staff on the date of the crime charged. I was able immediately to report re-port in the negative. "The crime with which Von Igel is charged took place during September, IflU. It was not until December, 1915. that Embassador von Bernstorff presented pre-sented Von Igel 's name as a member of his official family. I doubt whether Yon Igel proved acceptable, and it is my opinion that he never has been legally le-gally a member of the German embassy staff." Disposition of Documents. Regarding the documents seized, the return of which ws demanded by Count von Bernstorff. denial was made by Mr. Marshall that he had received instructions to turn them over to the German embassy, "I was instructed early today to forward for-ward to Washington papers described as 'official' by Count von Bernstorff ' ' j the district attorney said. "Not desiring de-siring to take upon myself the responsibility responsi-bility of deciding which of the papers were 'official,' I sent for facsimile photographs pho-tographs of all the papers. The originals are locked in mv safe. Only such papers as Count von Bernstorff designates as 'official' on inspecting the facsimiles will be returned. ' ' Mr. Marshall asserted there was no basis for protest against his retention of the papers on the ground that they were obtained through a violation of German territory. Von Tgel contended that his office "was a branch of the German embassy. |