Evening star., 1935-04-21
Wife and Former Gambler
Held in $4,000 Bond
After Hearing.
WOMAN MUST FACE
COURT AGAIN TOMORROW
Accused Of Conspiracy to Slay
Mrs. Beall. Who Named Her
in Divorce Suit.
BY w. III. SHIPPEN. JR.,
STAFF CORRESPONDENT of The Star,

ROCKVILLE, Md. April 20.-Mrs.
Anne Lyddane and an alleged confed-
crate were held under $4,000 bonds
each for the grand jury late today
following prolonged hearing on
charges that they participated in a
fantastic plot upon the life Of her
husband, Francis Lyddane.
Mrs. Lyddane. 32-year-old secretary
to the president of a leading bank
here, and member of a pioneer Mont
eomery County family. was ordered
held by Judge Daniel A. Delashmutt
along with John Martin Boland. AZ.
described as a former Washington
gambler.
Another Hearing Monday.
Boland was described by Mrs. Lyd-
danes accusers as the man who was
to have hired an assassin to do away
with Lyddane during a faxed hold-up.
After the arguments. the court said:
MY holding these two defendants
for the grand jury will in no way
prejudice their case From this evi-
dence am firmly convinced that they
should be held for the grand jury, and
so order"
States Attorney James H. Pugh of
Montgomery County obtained a sever
arce in hearing the charges against
Mrs. Lyddane and on Monday at l
o'clock she will appear again before
Judge Delashmutt on charges that
she conspired with John H. Carnell,
Rockville bartender and former WASH
ington bootlegger. and Edwin j. Davis
to assassinate Mrs. Arthur Beall, of
Darnestown. Mrs. Beall named Mrs.
Lyddane as correspondent in a divorce
suit against her husband; a suit that
was withdrawn.
The accused woman's husband,
Francis Lyddane, took the stand as a
defense witness late today and told
the court that he had not lived as
man and wife, with Mrs. Lyddane
for more than a year and no longer
loved her because he knew she was
going about with another fellow"
Backs Wife Testimony.
Lyddane. however, corroborated his
wife's earlier testimony that she told
him she paid 5000 to two men, un-
known to her. after they had threat
ened to kidnap him. Mrs. Lyddane
explained to the court she was being
blackmailed by Carnell, who knew
about Arthur Beall and me- and that
she had faxed the kidnap story to
spare her husbands feelings.
la l,. tA
packed court room today. Mrs.
Lyddane repeated her story to the
court in level, low pitched voice. She
was smartly dressed in a black suit, a
tiny black Spring hat and white gloves.
The accused woman said Carnell
and a man she did not know came
to her apartment in December to
talk over a business DEAL" but that
she refused to talk to them.
Carnell, she explained. had been
threatening her and extorting small
sums of money, no larger than s6 at
time. because he knew about her
affair with Beall.
Later. Mrs. Lyddane testified, she
received two telephone calls from
man she did not know. demanding
money. The first time. she explained.
she did not have any money. and the
second time she agreed to pay the
following day.
The demand was for $500 and Mrs.
Lyddane said she overdrew her ac-
count and borrowed SIS to make up
the amount.
On leaving the bank at the lun2h
hour. she said. she saw two men. one
standing beside an automobile bear
ing Ohio tags and the other seated
behind the wheel. Mrs. Lyddane said
she handed over the money to them.
She explained she later told her
husband and he offered to report to
the States attorneys Office. She said
she told her husband: Il spent 5000
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