Evening star., 1935-04-23
EARLY GRAND Jury
INQUIRY PLANNED
IN LYDDANE CASE
States Attorney Anticipates
Call by Ordering List
of Jurors.
SECOND CONSPIRACY
WARRANT DISMISSED
Charge of Plotting Death of Mrs.
Josephine Beall Dropped
After Hearing.
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BY w. H. SHIPPEN, JR.,
staff Correspondent of The Star.

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BY w. H. SHIPPEN, JR.,
staff Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, April 23.-Mont-
gomery County authorities today were
considering calling the grand jury into
early session to hear murder conspir-
acy charges against Mrs. Anne Lyd-
dane and three alleged confederates
held under $4,000 bonds following
Police Court hearings yesterday and
Saturday.
Should the jurors not be summoned
early, States Attorney James H. Pugh
said today they will receive the case
on their next regular reporting date.
May 20. The States attorney sent for
the list late yesterday in event the
special call is decided upon.
A warrant charging Mrs. Lyddane
with conspiracy to aSsiSsinate Mrs.
Josephine Beall, SO, wife Of Darnes-
town garage man, Arthur Beall, was
dismissed late yesterday by Judge
Donald A. DeLashmutt. At the same
time the Judge held under $4,000
bonds two men jointly accused in the
warrant-John H. Carnel, Rockville
bartender and former Washington
bootlegger, and Edwin j. Davis, 81,
who has been convicted several times
in Washington for liquor law VIOLA
tionS.
Held in $4,000 Bond.
Mrs. Lyddane, 2s-year-old bank Sec
retary and member Of leading Mont
gomery County family, and John Mar
tin Boland, AZ, described by police as
q former Washington gambler, were
held under $4,000 bonds each at a
preliminary hearing Saturday on
charges they conspired to murder Mrs.
Lyddane's husband, Francis Lyddane,
employe of a Montgomery county liq-
uor dispensary.
In dismissing the second warrant
against Mrs. Lyddane. Judge De Lash
mutt explained the evidence con-
vinced him that only one conspiracy,
if any, existed, and that he had or
dered Mrs. Lyddane held on Sat-
urday.
Carnell, who told the court he had
been promised immunity, waived pre-
liminary hearing yesterday and took
the stand as q State witness. He re-
lated how he had acted as contact
man" for Mrs. Lyddane, bringing
Davis to Rockville and introducing him
to Mrs. Lyddane.
According to Davis, who voluntarily
took the stand, despite the courts
warning that anything you say may
be used against you," Mrs. Lyddane
told him she had q woman she wanted
taken care Of"
Says $1,000 Promised.
Davis testified Mrs. Lyddane drove
him to Jamestown in her car, pointed
out house near a filling station and
then q woman entering the house who
was 'to be done away with" He said
he received $26 from Mrs. Lyddane
and the promise of $1,000 when the
job was completed.
Davis denied he intended murder.
That's not my business" he said.
A taxicab driver who drove Davis
to Rockville testified Davis told him
he intended to shake the woman
down."
Quizzed by State Senator Stedman
Prescott, chief Of defense counsel, re-
garding his Identification of Mrs. Lyd-
dane, Davis said the woman who took
him to Jamestown was dressed in q
dark coat and fur piece, a dark hat
and drove q "black or dark" blue auto
mobile about two years old.
He could not describe the aut0mo-
bile further or give other details re-
garding the woman's appearance and
voice.
Carnell Denies Key Mentioned.
On the stand yesterday, Carnell,
self-styled contact man" in the plot,
again denied he had heard any men
ton Of bank key which Mrs. Lyd-
dane had been accused Of Offering for
q robbery as further "pay of" in the
alleged plot.
Mrs. Lyddane's defense at both
hearings has been that she was the
victim Of a blackmail plot engineered
by Carnell, who knew about her as
sociation with Arthur Beall.
Beall sat through both hearings In
the crowded courtroom, the center Of
much attention from the spectators.
His wife, the mother Of his three
children, while remaining away from
the hearings, has affirmed her faith
in him.
Several years ago Mrs. Beall sued
her husband for divorce, naming Mrs.
Lyddane as correspondent. The suit
was withdrawn upon q settlement in
which Beall transferred property
worth about $4,000 to his wife.
Thomas Held as Witness.
Harry Elmer Thomas, who has been
convicted Of housebreaking and lar
ceny in Washington, and who testified
agents for Mrs. Lyddane" sought
to hire him In murder plot, was re-
day as State witness.
Irving Borell Of Reading, Pa, who
met Thomas while they were serving
time at Lorton, and testified he drove
with Thomas to Rockville to see q
woman he pointed out in court as
Mrs. Lyddane, will be summoned as
witness before the grand Jury, au-
thorities said. Borell voluntarily
came to Rockville to tell his story.
Borell admitted to long, police rec
ord, ranging from automobile theft
to receiving stolen goods.
CarneN, Boland and Davis were
Jailed in default Of their $4,000
bonds.
MRS. KAHN WINS. PRIZE