Evening star., 1935-06-18
SECOND LYDDANE
TRIAL SCHEDULED
FOR FALL COURT
BoIand, Guilty, Sentenced to
Three Years Nine Months
in Prison.
BONDS ARE CONTINUED
FOR OTHERS ACCUSED
Hearing Set Next Wednesday for
Newsmen Cited in Contempt
Proceedings.
BY w. ii. SHIPPEN, Jr,
STAFF Correspondent Of The Star,

6Idu OOIE6opOiuC1t Va AhS Oee~'
ROCKVILLE, Md, June 18.-Mrs.
Anne Lyddane probably will be tried
for the second time in November as
result of the guilty verdict returned
by the judges yesterday afternoon
against John Martin Boland on
charges of conspiring with Mrs. Lyd-
dane and John (Googy) Carnell to kill
Mrs. Lyddane's husband.
Immediately after the verdict,
States Attorney James H. Pdgh asked
the three judges to postpone further
trials on the indictments in the Lyd-
dane case until the next term OF court.
in November. The request was
granted and bonds of those charged
continued.
Wife SObs at Sentence.
The sandy-haired. husky Boland.
former Washington gambler. did not
attempt to deny his guilt as the court
sentenced him to three years and nine
months in the Maryland House OF
Correction. His young and attractive
wife, however, could not restrain her
SobS.
Prior. to sentence, Boland's attorney,
Fred A. Maltby, requested leniency OF
the court. "It would not be Just or
fair" Maltby continued, ito lay the
whole penalty on this mans shoulders
when others are involved.
Judges Hammond Urner. Charles w.
Woodward and Arthur D. Willard, be-
fore whom Boland was tried, with
held sentence until yesterday so as not
to prejudice the Lyddane jury. Bo-
lands case was completed TUESDAY
night and Mrs. Lyddane went on trial
the following morning before jury
on a similar charge of conspiring to
murder her husband, Francis (Slom)
Lyddane.
Case q Mistrial.
The jury was discharged and the
case declared q mistriai at midnight
Saturday after it had spent nine hours
in a futile effort to agree.
Carnell, the Rockville bartender and
petty racketeer who turned States
evidence and won immunity, was held
under $1,000 boyd to the November
term of court, as was another States
witness also under indictment, Harry
Elmer Thomas, former convict. Car
nell pleaded guilty, but has not been
sentenced.
The fourth man under Indictment,
Edwin ]. Davis, described as former
Washington bootlegger, was held un-
der his former bond Of $1,000. Davis
is accused of conspiring with Mrs.
Lyddane to murder Mrs. Arthur Beall.
wife of a Darnestown garage man, In
whom Mrs Lyddane was interested.
Mrs. Lyddane, 31-year-old former
bank secretary, was not in court when
Boland was sentenced, although her
chief defense counsel, State Senator
Stedman Prescott, was present with
other defense attorneys. She Is under
$4,000 bond.
Contempt Hearing Set.
Hearing on a contempt-of case
against two reporters and two editors
of the Washington Herald and the
American Newspapers, Inc, was set
by the judges for 10 o'clock Wednes-
day morning, June 26.
The reporters, Pat Frank and David
Lee, and Editors Ray Helgerson and
Michael w. Flynn, and the American
Newspapers. Inc, were cited to show
cause why they should not be ruled in
contempt for publishing story pur-
porting to reveal a guilty verdict In
the Boland case as the judges pre-
pared to try Mrs. Lyddane before the
jury. Service was obtained against
Lee and Frank, who responded yester-
day, along with the corporation.
The corporation offered to apologize
both to the court and by publication
If it could be shown where it had
embarrassed or obStructed the ad-
ministration of justice"
Attorneys Vivian B. Simpson and
Ed Peter of Rockville responded in
behalf of the reporters and sought
dismissal of the citation on the ground
that it was unaccompanied by afi-
davit or sworn statement of fact con-
tanning specific accusations as re-
quired, it was argued, in cases of GRIM
ina1 c0rtemr1t nf court