Evening star., 1935-04-21
.LYDDANE CASE UP
TO GRAND JURORS
Wife and Former Gambler
Accused of Plotting to
Murder Husband.
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her authority in drawing funds from
q guardians account and declared the
money she spent was her own. All
her Withdrawals from the bank were
perfectly legitimate, she said.
She summarized her personal in
come and outlay and declared she had
brought every check she had paid out
for the last Is months to substantiate
her testimony.
Detective James McAuliffe of Mont
gomery County had testified Mrs. Lyd-
dane had more than $700 on her per-
son in cash when he arrested her. .
Mrs. Lyddane explained that she
had drawn the money from her vari-
Gus accounts to buy some baby bonds"
and to purchase an automobile for her
husband.
Sought ito Spare" Husband.
Pugh asked Mrs. Lyddane why she
paid 5000 to "extortionists or black
mailers" when she knew her domestic
affairs had been made court record
through Mrs. Bealls divorce suit
against her husband
Mrs. Lyddane replied she did this
to avoid Objectionable publicity.
Under cross examination by Pugh,
Mrs. Lyddane said
I'VE, Bean and I, had been seeing
each other after the divorce suit and
told my husband the kidnapping story
to spare his feelings"
Pugh asked if she had frequented
Lincoln Way Inn, where Carnell was
employed as a bartender
Il went there about four times a
week. usually with my husband" Mrs.
Lyddane replied.
Pugh asked if she had conversations
with CARMEL while at the inn.
"Yes," Mrs. Lyddane said, "he ap-
preached me many times and I gave
him various sums, the largest about
S."
Denies Promise of Bank Key.
Asked about charges that she had
promised the key to the Farmers
Bank & Trust Co., where she worked,
as further pay-oh to her alleged
confederates, Mrs. Lyddane said:
It have had key to the bank for
the last 10 years, but ! promised 1t
to no one"
Then why" asked Pugh, did you
60 straight to Lincoln Way Inn when
the lock on the bank door was
changed a few days before your ar
rest?"
Mrs. Lyddane explained she had
lost a brooch and went to the inn to
ask Carnell if he had seen it.
Questioned about her husbands life
insurance, Mrs. Lyddane explained he
usually carried $4,000, but that re-
Gently he had been forced to reduce
the amount to $4,000 She said that
both of them had paid the premiums
from time to time.
Further questioning brought out
that she had loaned money to Frank
Abbo, Italian born proprietor OF the
Lincoln Way Inn, where she had gone
to confer with CARMEL. Mrs. Lyddane
said she had loaned Abbo money over
Q period of about six years.
Lyddane Takes Stand.
Lyddane, who sat through the all
day hearing beside his wife, followed
her to the stand. He testified his wife
had told him she paid out the 5000
OF protect him from kidnapers.
During cross-exanination, Pugh
asked:
did you not say in my Office, after
being informed of your wife's arrest,
that you had not lived as husband
and wife for the last year?"
Defense Counsel Stedman Prescott,
q State Senator and former States
attorney of Montgomery County, OBJ
jected to the question, but was over
ruled.
Il told you of my own free will"
Lyddane answered, that I did not
love my wife that way. knew she
was going about with another fellow"
Lyddane corroborated his wife's ex-
PLANTATION of how she happened to
have more than $700 on her person
when arrested. He said he understood
she planned to buy him new auto
mobile.
Dealers Corroborated Story.
Harry Ghormley, Rockville automo-
bile dealer, said Mrs. Lyddane had ap-
preached him on the subject of buy
ing car with the suggestion that he
sell her husband new machine.
Another defense witness, 0. H.
Howard, automobile dealer, said Mrs.
Lyddane had promised to purchase a
car from him for her husband, but
that she was afraid he would lose
his Job as an employe of the Mont
gomery County liquor dispensary.
That" said Howard, was the only
thing holding up the deal"
Mrs. Lyddane had testified she
would have bought the automobile
but for the uncertainty of her hus-
bands job. She explained she went
to Annapolis to use her influence with
members Of the State Legislature to-
ward keeping his job. Shirley Hays,
member of the House of Delegates,
and Clay Carlin, clerk of one of
the Legislature committees, corrobo-
rated this testimony.
Three Accuse Mrs. Lyddane.
Byrne Austin, clerk in the Office of
the Montgomery County supervisor of
elections, testified nothing in Mrs.
Lyddane's demeanor prior to her ar
rest indicated she was under mental
strain.
Three members of the Washington
underworld accused Mrs. Lyddane of
hiring, or attempting to hire, them TO
do away with her husband-Carnell,
who admitted he bootlegged liquor in
Washington for five years at about 80
places; William Pollard, alias William
Brown, 81, of Alexandria and WASH
ington, former liquor hijacker, who
said he had also been convicted of lar
ceny, and Harry Elmer Thomas, who
testified he had served time for house.
breaking and other offenses.
An alleged confession by Boland was
read to the court in which he said he
received $50 from CARMEL, "who ex-
planned he was the contact man for
Mrs. Lyddane, q Rockville woman
anxious to have her husband mur-
dered." Boland, in the confession, de-
MED he intended to 60 through with
the Job, as did Carneu and Pollard
from the witness stand.
Sergt. Floyd Truscott Of the Wash
ington homicide squad, who arrested
Boland in Washington, said the