Evening star., 1936-05-18
TWO HOURS TAKEN
TO SELECT PANEL
FOR SECOND TRIAL
Prosecutor Cites Insurance
Benefit to Defendant in
Opening Talk.
SAYS HE WILL PROVE
CONSPIRACY MOTIVE
Tells of Note Given Him by Car.
nell Outlining Details of
Alleged Plot.
BY WILLIAM H. SHIPPEN. JR.,

| Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md. May 18.-Ths
jury to try Mrs. Anne M. Lyddane
for the second time on charges Of
instigating a weird plot on the life
of her husband was completed at
1870 am. today, after two hours Of
challenges.
The pretty blond defendant is on
trial on the formal charge of plan-
ming her husbands murder. with the
help of John H. (GoogyD Carnell
Rockville bartender and former
Washington policeman. and John
Martin Boland, now serving four years
for his part in the alleged conspiracy
| With her at this trial. as on the
occasion of the first hearing in Rock.
vile last June. was the smiling, good
natured Francis (Slom) Lyddane, the
man whose life the defendant allegedly
sought. Mr. and Mrs. Lyddane sat
side by side in court Although they
no longer live together, Lyddane still
is loyal to his wife.
| One Chosen Is Excused.
After the jury was tentatively com.
| pleted at 1920 am, William S
Seibert, proprietor of a barber shop
asked to be excused and selection wa.
reopened on consent of prosecutions
! and defense.
Selection of the jury began at 9:3d
a m, after Mrs. Lyddane entered the
| court room on the arm of her husband
AS finally sworn in shortly before
noon, the jury consisted of:
Milton Coulter, farmer: John w.
Long, farmer: Ross L. Wolfe, haber.
daShery clerk. foreman; Charles D.
Masters, automobile salesman; Viii.
liam T Brooks farmer; Jesse Hol-
den, laborer; William H. Geoff.
laborer; David K. Poole, John r
Welsh. shoe factory foreman; Clar-
ence Burger. retired, and Donald
Ebersole, Office worker Seibert was
/ replaced by Frank K. Welby, iron
worker.
Mrs. Lyddane would have received
100000 in double indemnity life in.
surance if her husband had met q
violent death, Prosecutor James H
Pugh declared in his opening address
! to the jury.
! Pugh, States attorney for Mont
/ gomery County, said the prosecution
will prove the motive for the con-
| spiracy went back to 1888, when Mrs,
J Lyddane kept company with one
Arthur Beall, married man and
, father of three children" The affair
he said, was conducted openly and
notoriously"
Pugh declared he would prove
Lyddane drew checks on the bank
where his wife was employed as Sec
retary to the president.
The evidence will disclose" Pugh
continued, that Mrs. Lyddane made
these checks good and charged them
to her account"
Pugh said the State would prove
Mrs. Lyddane approached CARMEL in
october, 1884, to hire him to procure
killers to get her husband.
Describes Details.
! Pugh described details of the al.
legged plot into which were brought
Boland and the other alleged conspir.
ators.
The prosecutor said Mrs. Lyddane,
| for two weeks prior to her arrest on
April /. 1885, carried S76 in cash on
her person. He said the defendant
admitted paying 5000 to a stranger
in car with Ohio tags.
The tate's attorney then went into
/ foil rSi n 1OaIc
note which CARMEL gave him. and
which urged the conspirators TO go
ahead with their job.
He said he could prove the note was
written on Mrs. Lyddane's typewriter
! and bore a seal of a type later dis
covered in her desk. He said the
paper resembled that in Mrs. Lyd-
danes Office.
The note was addressed to Boland
and was to have been delivered by
| Carnell
100 Witnesses Expected.
Almost 100 witnesses are expected
to testify in behalf Of the former
Rockville bank secretary. and ths
State has subpoenaed virtually half
that number. 1t was believed that
Lyddane again would take the stand
to defend his wife, as he did last
June
Two important prosecution wits
nesses will be missing.
First Jury Disagrees.
| Mrs. Lyddane first was tried In
Rockville, but the jury disagreed. A
mistrial was declared. Just previous
| ly, however, John Martin Boland had
elected to be tried before the judges
and was found guilty Of conSpiring
against Lyddane's life. He was sem
fenced to four years in prison.
The accused woman arrived here
yesterday afternoon and attended
church services. She found time this
morning. before the trial began, to 90
to church a second time.
She is stopping at hotel here with
her father and a sister. Since the
Rockville trial he has Travelled exc
tensively.
Hotels here we're crowded to capac>
ity today because Of the Maryland.
District of Columbia Federation Of
Labor meeting, the opening of 10-
day racing meet and the witnesses,
attorneys and newspaper men for the
trial
Mrs. Lyddane was clad In smart
Summer dress Of light, yellow silk al
she entered the court room with hef
husband She wore q small. whiN
felt hat drawn tightly over her blond