Evening star., 1935-04-08
Montgomery May Call March
Panel to Hear EVi.
denCe.
TWO OTHERS SOUGHT
FOR PLOT QUESTIONING
Fourth Man Is Grilled by Police
on knowledge of Rockville
Conspiracy"

A special session of the Montgomery
County grand jury may be called to
hear the Lyddane case in which pretty.
2s-year -old Anne Lyddane. Rockville
bank secretary. and three Washington
police characters are accused of con-
spring to murder her husband and
Mrs. Josephine Beall of Darnestown.
While official confirmation was
lacking 1t was learned from an author
itative source that the State is con-
sidering recalling the grand jury which
served during the March term of Cir
cult Court and presenting the alleged
murder plot for consideration. Mean
while. it was discovered, that police
have a star" witness undercover and
are keeping him out Of the spotlight
focused on the case, which has no
precedent in Montgomery County
police annals
He is Washington man. who, police
admitted this morning. voluntarily
came forward and offered to tell what
he knew regarding the alleged con-
spiracy. Police say that while he is
not key witness in the entire case,
his testimony will corroborate an i'm
portant statement furnished by one
CT the men under arrest. Officers
would not disclose his identity.
Two Others Sought.
A new search was instituted dur
ing the week end for two additional
people. whom Investigators are anxious
20 question.
I'VE have a good case without
them" said Policeman Joseph A.
Nolte. who with Policeman James S.
McAuliffe. Is directing the inyestiga-
tion, but we are overlooking no bets
and intend to run out every lead we
discover"
Mrs. Lyddane and the three Wash
ington men are scheduled to be ar
raigned for a preliminary hearing in
Police Court April 20, but The Star
learned the State is considering an
attempt to abandon the hearing and
submit the case directly TO the grand
jury
II was said that If this plan fails,
the grand jury in all probability will
be recalled Immediately after the
Police Court hearing to consider the
evidence against any of the defend
ants who might be remanded to the
jury as a result of the hearing in
Police Court.
The grand jury is scheduled to re-
port back to the Circuit Court on May
20, but Maryland laws provide that
the jury may be recalled at any time
its services are required. Statutes
also set forth that a defendant in
any case is entitled to a preliminary
hearing if such is requested.
Thomas Questioned.
Nolte said this morning the police
have virtually completed their inves-
tigation of the case with the arrest
of Harry E Thomas. who was cap
tured by Washington detectives in
Baltimore Saturday night and later
lodged in the Rockville Jail for in
vestigation.
Authorities questioned Thomas for
the second time yesterday and he re-
iterated a statement allegedly made
on his apprehension that he had been
approached" and offered a part in
a plan to rob a Rockville bank.
John H. ("Googy'D Carnell and
John Boland. who are held in the
Rockville Jail on conspiracy charges,
are said to have signed a statement
for police in which they claim they
we're to have received the keys to the
Farmers Banking & Trust Co., where
Mrs. Lyddane is employed, as part of
the consideration for numbering Fran
els S. Lyddane. husband of the bank
secretary, and Mrs. Beall, who named
Mrs. Lyddane correspondent in a
divorce suit filed against her husband
several years ago, but which was
dropped two days later.
Boland and Carnell are said to have
told police Mrs. Lyddane offered to
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