Evening star., 1935-05-20
Woman and 3 Men Accused
of Plotting Death of
Her Husband.
20 WITNESSES CALLED
TO TESTIFY IN INQUIRY
Pugh Has Alleged Confessions to
Offer Jurors as Evidence of
His Contentious.
By a staff Correspondent of The Star.

By staff Correspondent Of The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md, May 20.-The
case of pretty 29-year-old Anne Lyd-
dane and three men accused with her
of allegedly conspiring to murder
the former bank secretary, was laid
before the Montgomery County grand
jury shortly after 10 am. today.
A parade of 90 witnesses, many of
them known criminals, have been sub
poenaed to appear before the % jurors
and tell for the State what they know
of the supposed death plot.
States Attorney James H. Pugh was
prepared to lead the jurors through
all the intricacies and ramiflcations of
the sensational case.
Typewriter Evidence.
He is armed with mysterious notes.
a typewriter, alleged to have been
used by Mrs. Lyddane at the Farmers
Banking & Trust Co., and alleged
confessions as leading exhibits of evil
dence to drive home his contention
the woman sought to rid herself Of
her husband.
Arthur Beall, named with Mrs
Lyddane by his wife in a divorce suit
two years ago, which she later dropped
was smiling and jovial as he waited
in third floor hall of the Rockville
Court House to appear before the jury
which will also hear Mrs. Josephine
Beall, his wife.
Others against whom Pugh seeks
indictments are:
John M. Boland. AZ, of Washington:
John H Carnell, Rockville bartender
who was charged also with conspirac'
to murder Mrs. Beall, and Edwin J
Davis.
Jury Charged at 10 O'Clock.
Judge Charles E Woodward charge
the jury in the court room shortly
after 10 o'clock. He made no specific
references to the Lyddane case.
During this preliminary States At
torney Pugh sat stolidly in the jury
box, while below the judges bench
red-haired Stedman Prescott, State
Senator and chief of counsel for Mrs.
Lyddane. listened silently to the
judges instructions.
Soon after Jury Foreman Josiah W.
Jones led his men into the room where
they will listen to the evidence
gathered by Pugh today and tomorrow.
newspaper men were ordered of the
third floor of the court house where
the jury proceedings are taking place.
Witnesses Summoned.
Among the witnesses summoned by
the State are:
James Macdonald, painter, Of
Darnestown, Md, and an acquaint-
ance of the Bealls.
George C.. Esworthy, Darnestown
garageman, another friend OF the
Bealls.
Harry Thomas, promised immunity
by the State to testify in its behalf.
Thomas declared at Police Court
hearing on the case that he overheard
a conversation between Mrs. Lyddane
and others and that he was ap-
preached by Boland to aid in a plot
to rob the bank where Mrs. Lyddane
was employed.
William Brown of Alexandria, Va,
who claimed at the Police Court hear
ing that Boland approached him with
an offer to act as trigger man" in
the alleged plot against Mr.. Lyddane's
life.
Irwin Borrell, who says he twice
drove Thomas to Rockville.
Pugh will inject a scientific angle
into the jury investigation when he
calls two typewriter experts, their
names unknown.
Link Notes to Typewriter.
They will state that two notes con-
corning the alleged conspiracy were
written on the typewriter used at the
bank by Mrs. Lyddane.
Tweuty-three jurors were to have
been impaneled, but Washington w.
White could not attend because of ILL
ness. Aside from Foreman Jones, the
others are:
Joseph S. Harper, Bradley M. Wood
field. Arthur q. Cashen, Denton
Hobbs. Roger Shaw. James F. Burch,
Rosser E. Butler. Henry T. Clark,
Ernest W. Beall (no relation to the
Arthur BeaiD, William B. White,
Howard C. Bryan, Merton F. Duvall,
James D. Ferguson. Edward S. Barn
sley Raymond j. Davis. H. Douglas
Frisbie, John A. Whitman and George
j. Hudson, jr.