Evening star., 1936-05-20
Witness Says He Saw Her
With BeaII When Lights
Were Turned On.
WRONGED WIFE TELLS
OF TAUNTS BY PHONE
"0ther Woman" Called Her Up,
She Declares, as State Ends
Direct Testimony.
BY w. H. SHIPPEN, JR.,
Stan Correspondent OF The Star.

on trial here, charged with plotting
the death of her husband. j. c. Varah
of Rockville said he and three detec-
tives turned flashlights and food
light on Mrs. Lyddane and Arthur
Beall in a Rockville cemetery one
night in July of 1888.
Varah said he understood the de.
tectives we're hired by Mrs. Josephine
Beall to obtain evidence against hel
husband on which to base a divorce
suit
The State witness identified the
detectives as Bradford" head of q
Washington agency: a man named
Dodson and another called Crittenden
Varah said he drove them to the
cemetery and they waited half ar
hour before Mrs. Lyddane drove up
with Beall. Darnestown garage man.
State Ends Testimony.
The State concluded its direct testi-
mony with Varah and the defense be-
gan a long parade of character wit
nesses in behalf of the blond matron
The first defense witnesses were
Andrew j. Cummings, president of the
Maryland State Fair, Inc, of Laurel
and Frank H. Karn president Of the
Montgomery County Board of Com.
missionerS.
Earlier today Mrs. Lyddane was de-
nounced from the witness stand by
Mrs Beall, the wife and mother she
admittedly has wronged.
Mrs. Beall told the jury that on the
night before her last baby was born
she saw Mrs. Lyddane in car with
her husband.
Mrs. Lyddane Is being tried for a
second time on charges Of hiring
Washington hoodlums to do away with
her husband, Francis (Slow) Lyddane
A Jury In Rockville last June failed
to agree and o mistrial was ordered
The defense has freely admitted
Mrs. Lyddane's affair with the Darnes-
town garage man and star base ball
player. It is contended the attractive
matron was being blackmailed be-
cause Of her association with Beall.
Knew Voice on Wire.
Mrs. Beall told the jury:
Mrs. Lyddane kept calling me on
the telephone. She would not give
her name, but knew that voice. She
would tell me she had just been out
with my husband.
II knew her voice. 1t was voice
that said things which should have
been known only in my family"
Mrs. Beall told the jury she sued
Beall for divorce in November, 1898
but dropped the suit because of prop
erty settlement and her husbands
agreement to break of the affair.
Mrs. Beall testified that on several
occasions Mrs. Lyddane followed in heI
car as she and her husband drove to
Rockville or neighboring towns.
Husband Questioned Briefly.
The wife was preceded to the stand
by her husband, who testified he saw
Mrs. Lyddane "once or twice a week
between the withdrawal of his and
Mrs. Beall's divorce suit and Mrs. Lyd-
danes arrest. Beall was questiond
only brifly.
The State contends Mrs Lyddane's
motive for the alleged murder plot was
her love for Beall and her desire tc
collect a $4,000 insurance policy on
her husbands life.
Defense attorneys were overruled
in sudden move for a mistrial on
the basis of a conversation between
the prosecutor and a defense lawyer
The jury was removed while the
motion was argued before Judges Da-
vid A. Robb and Frank G. Wagaman
Attorney Kenneth Lyddane, cousin
Of the defendant, took the stand tc
repeat a conversation he had last
night with States Attorney James H
Pugh Of Montgomery County.
Boland Conviction Mentioned.
Lyddane told the judges he talked
to Pugh in the lobby Of a local hotel
He said Pugh told him he had in
structed william Carley, alias Willie
Brown, not to refer during direct
testimony to the conviction of John
Martin Boland, Washington gambler
Boland now is serving a four-year
term. He was convicted Of the muir
der plot at Rockville last June.
Attorney Lyddane said Pugh told
him, however, he instructed Carlin tc
mention Boland's conviction If the
question was brought up in cross-ex-
animation In behalf of the defense.
Pugh then took the stand to repeat
his conversation with Lyddane. He was
followed by Martin L. Ingram, States
attorney for Washington County.
Judge Wagaman halted the law.
yers at this point, and explained Car.
Inns reference to Boland's conviction
had been ruled from the record, and
that he and his colleague had agreed
to turn down the mistrial motion.
Crowd Jams Street.
Admission to the trial here is by
pass only and q press Of spectators
has jammed the streets outside the
court house In hope of obtaining q
glimpse Of witnesses.
The indictment under which Mrs
Lyddane is on trial charges she con-
spired with Boland and John (Googy)
Carne1, former Rockville bartender
and Washington police character. Car
nell has turned States evidence on q
promise Of immunity.
One Of the prosecutions strongest
points Il an anonymous, typewriter
note allegedly written to the conspir-
ators by Mrs. Lyddane.
This "Googy" note was seized In
Carnells effects following the arrest
of Mrs. Lyddane, the bartender and
1ee EYDDAN1I F1se A-2.)