Evening star., 1935-05-15
NEW LINK CLAIMED.
IN LYDDANE CASE.
Prosecutor Declares Type
writer and Seized Notes
Will Back Charges.

Three additional links in the chain
OF alleged evidence in which the State
Of MARYLAND is attempting to enmesh
Mrs. Anne Lyddane and three CO.
defendants on murder conspiracy
charges were revealed late yesterday
by James H. Pugh, States attorney
for Montgomery County.
Pugh disclosed he has irnpounded
O typewriter alleged to have been used
by Mrs. Lyddane in her capacity as
secretary to the president of the
Farmers Banking & Trust Co., and
said that he expects to prove it was
employed to write at least two notes
in the sensational case.
Due Before Grand Jury.
The case in which Mrs. Lyddane
and three Washington men are ac-
cused of plotting to murder the pretty
29-year-old Rockville bank Secretary'S
husband, Francis S. Lyddane, and
Mrs. Josephine Beall Of Darnestown Is
to be presented to the Montgomery
County grand jury when 1t recon-
venes Monday morning.
Both the typewriter and the notes
said by the prosecutor to have been
taken from defendants in the case will
be offered as evidence before the
Jurors, Pugh declared.
He refused, however, to say whether
the notes had been obtained from
John H. cGoogy') CARMEL, erstwhile
Washington policeman and Rockville
bartender; John M. Boland or Edwin
J. Davis, who with Mrs. Lyddane were
held for the jury in recent Police
Court hearing.
Woman Under Bond.
Mrs. Lyddane, who is at liberty un-
der bond, and Boland were remanded
to the grand Jury on charge OF con-
spring to kill Lyddane, while Davis
and Carnell were held on charge OF
conspiring to murder Mrs. Beall. who
named Mrs. Lyddane correspondent in
a divorce case filed against her hus-
band two years ago, but later dropped.
The warrant charging Mrs. Lyddane
with conspiring to murder Mrs. Beall
was dismissed Nduring the hearing. but
Pugh stated yesterday he will ask the
fury to indict her in both cases.
Investigators in the case have zeal
ously guarded information regarding
the seizure of the typewriter and
notes. but it finally became a matter
of public record during meeting OF
the Board of Montgomery County
Commissioners late yesterday.
The disclosure came when Pugh
requested an ALLEGATION with which to
replace temporarily the banks i'm
pounded typewriter.
Has Documents.
The prosecutor told newspaper men
that the State had, and still has, GER
tain documents written by Boland and
Mrs. Lyddane at the time of their pre-
liminary hearing in Police Court and
had proffered these documents at the
hearing.
Counsel for the defendant Lyd-
dane, objected to this evidence and
the proffer was withdrawn" Pugh
stated. THE defense counsel having
objected to the introduction of this
first document at the hearing, the
State abandoned all evidence of
technical nature. -.- --
"T11e day after the defendants, Lyd-
dane and Boland were arrested april
y, a typewriter alleged to have been
used at the Farmers Banking & Trust
Co. of Rockville by the defendant
Lyddane was impounded as States
evidence.
"The State expects to present evil
dence at the grand jury on Monday
which will show that this typewriter
wrote certain documents to the CO.
corSpirators in this case"
Pugh would not disclose the nature
OF the. contents Of the notes, but de-
clared that with the typewriter they
form the most important evidence the
State has In the case.
Mrs. Bean Is the wife Of Arthur
Beall, Darnestown garage owner, who
Mrs. Lyddane testified during the Po-
lice Court hearing she had been seeing
even after his wife withdrew the
divorce suit filed in 1893.