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Show GERMAN UNDER ARREST IN N. Y. Secretary to Von Pap en Located Lo-cated in Latter's Office. j New York, April 18. Wolfe von Igel, secretary of Franz von Papon, former military attache to the Gorman Gor-man embassy, was arrested here today to-day in Captain von Papen's former office, of-fice, after a fist fight with four agents of the department of justice. Von Igel Is the fifth man, indicted yesterday with von Papen, charged with conspiracy to blow up the Wel-land Wel-land canal. When tho our agents of the department of justice entered his offlco, today, he put up a fight in which he was assisted by Georgo von Skall, an employe. Von Igel, before he was overpowered, succeeded in reaching safe In the far corner of the room banging tho door shut and turning turn-ing the combination. Ho was not subdued, sub-dued, the federal agents said, until they pointed revolvers at him. "Go ahead and shoot," his captors reported him as saying, "It will only cause war between tho United States and Germany. You have no right to imade this office. It is German territory. ter-ritory. These aro Russian methods." Von Igel made a similar statement when brought later beforo Judgo Howe. Lacking a lawyer, ho was told by the court that his arraignment would bo postponed until later, when hiB plea that he had been illegally' arrested could be formally entered. Von Igol's assistant, von Skall, attempted at-tempted during the proceedings to get Count von Bernstorff, the German Ger-man ambassador at Washington on the telephone, but failed. According to Assistant United States Attorney Roger B. Wood, von Igel has been in charge of von Papen's Pap-en's office Bince hiB departure He has been paid at tho rato of $238 per month Mr. Wood said. Prosecutor Wood, after von Igel's arrest, made public copies of a letter and check which he asserts prove conclusively Captain von Papen's complicity, in tho plot to destroy tho Welland canal. Tho letter, dated September 6, 1914, Is written on the letterhead of Captain H. Tauscher, representative of ICrupps In this country and husband hus-band ot Mme. Gadskl, the opera singer, sing-er, who was among those indiotod yesterday. Addressed to the local officers of tho E. I. Dupont de Nemours Powder company, and signed by Tauscher, the letter read: "Referring to my telephone conver-snMrm conver-snMrm nt vcsLordav with vour Mr. Clark, will you pleaBe deliver to bearer, Mr. Brldgoman Taylor, tho entire three hundred pounds 60 per cent dynamite and send invoice to rcy nbovo address for payment after delivery?" ThlB is the dynamlto which it Is alleged was taken to Niagara Falls by the men concerned in the plot for tho blowing up of tho waterway. The check bears the signature of "Von Papon," Is dated Soptomber i, 1914, and 1b drawn on tho Riggs National Na-tional bank, Washington, D. C, in tho sum of $200 and made payable to "Mr. Brldgeman Taylor." London, April 18, 11:15 a, m. According Ac-cording to a dispatch to Lloyd3, the Russian bark SohWanden, which 16ft Greenock, Scotland, March 28, for Mobile, Ala., has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. The crew was saved. |