Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1935, Page 6

WITNESS IN ‘PLOT TELLS PROPOSAL :D. C. Man Declares He Was ; Offered Money to Kil Darnestown Woman. A Washington man. ‘who, police fsay, told them he had“been offered 181,500 to slay Mrs. Arthur Beall, wife :o! & Darnestown garage owner, was :belng held in the jail at Rockville, ¢Md,, today as a witness in the case of «Mrs. Anne Lyddane, pretty 29-year- fold bank secretary, who'is charged ¢by police of having entered into a sconspiracy to murder her husband. $ The man, Edwin J. Davis, 31, of ethe 400 block Pennsylvania avenue, % Washington detectives said, told them «last night that a woman who had ibeen introduced to him as “Mrs. fLlyddane” drove him to Darnestown +on November 9 and pointed out Mrs. (Beall “as a woman she wanted killed.” Had Signed Bond. John H. Carnell, bartender in a #Rockville tavern who is under arrest ;2s a material witness in the case is «reported to have signed a statement 1for police several days ago in which yhe alleged that Mrs. Lyddane engi- ,nieered a plot to murder her husband, r Francis S. Lyddane, bookkeeper in the Tgfl\'fir Spring dispensary, and Mrs. eall. . 3 It is claimed that the statement al- | -leges Carnell and John Boland, who is | +charged with Mrs. Lyddane with con- -spiracy to murder the latter's hus- band, were to receive $3,000 for each +killlng and the keys to the Farmers’ | «Banking & Trust Co., where Mrs. s Lyddane is employed as secretary to «President Richard F. Green, as a »further consideration. ¢ Meanwhile, as Montgomery County % authorities investigate Davis’ story, it +has been learned that Mrs. Lyddane L handled a large share of Montgomery #County’s bonding business and had | signed a bond in the amount of $81,- +550 on the new .Silver Spring dis- T pensary completed recently. Davis Arrested Here, Davis was arrested in the 600 *block of Pennsylvania avenue late « yesterday by Detective Sergts. Robert % J. Barrett and Paul E. Ambrose. An- rother Washingtonian was arrested by the detectives a few moments later, but he was released today after co vincing authorities he had no con- " nection with the Rockville case. Police said they were told by Davis that he went to Rockville on No- vember 8, spent the night with Car- . nell and was introduced to a woman who Carnell said was “Mrs. Lyd- dane” the following day Davis, according to police. said he was introduced as a “Philadelphia gunman” and the woman whom he had met drove him to Darnestown and pointed out Mrs. Beall as a women she wanted murdered. “When we returned to Rockville she gave me $36—all the money she had— and told me she would give me more M Husband Joins it T came back the following day,” police quoted Davis as saying. Officers said that the woman then offered Davis $1,000 to kil the Darnestown woman and then raised | it to $1,500 when Davis balked at the first figure. | Davis told the police he had no in- tention of killing any one and merely | listened to the scheme in order to get | money from the woman. | Davis, according to the story police said they were told, returned to Rock- | ville on’ four other occasions to talk | to Carnell, but never saw “Mrs. Lyd- dane” again. | Mrs. Lyddane, whose attorneys claim she is the victim of a “black- mail” plot, is at liberty under per- | sonal bond pending a preliminary | hearing in the Rockville Police Court, | Monday at 2 p.m. on the charge of | conspiring to murder her husband. Boland's case also will be heard at | that time. | _ State Senator Stedman Prescott and {Robert B. Peter, jr, both former State's attorneys, who, with Kenneth Lyddane, ' FIRST Lyddane, represent Mrs. ZinzziiiiiiiizieizzzzzzizZ2?Z?ZddZ, | in Washington PRESCOTT. 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Feering arrest for extortion, | Prescott stated, the pair plotted to ,name Mrs. Lyddane in the alleged murder conspiracy in event of arrest. | Mrs, Lyddane’s husband told news- | paper men yesterday he had ‘“com- | plete confidence” in his wife and vould stand by her. He expressed confidence that she would be cleared | of the charge. | State’s Attorney J. Bernard Wells of Baltimore City will join with | | State's Attorney James H. Pugh of | | Montgomery County in the prosecu- | tion of the case, the county commis- sioners authorizing his employment at their meeting yesterday. | It was brought out at the meeting | NO CHARGE FOR CREDIT Castelberg’s is proud to be among the first to offer these | amazing new Hamilton strap watches. And by new we mean completely new— watches of distinguished ap- pearance and phenomenal precision. 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Both attributed .the story told by police witnesses to Mrs. Lyddane's refusal to pay off blackmailers. —Star Staff Photo. —_ 0 that Mrs. Lyddane was one of three individuals who signed a security bond in the amount of $81,550 on the new Silver Spring Dispensary com- pleted a short time aga. Handles Bonding Business, Charles H. Thompkins, one of the co-signees, said that he himself was “good for more than the amount of the bond,” although. he did not know to what extent Mrs. Lyddane could have met the obligation. His son, Francis M. Thompkins, was the con- tractor and the third co-signee on the bond. It was learned after the board meeting that Mrs. Lyddane handles a large share of the county’s bond- ing business for a Baltimore com: D.C. TOPS STATES IN SUICIDE RATE Figures, However, Show Capital Is Fourth Among Cities of Nation. ‘The suicide rate in the District tops that of any State, the Census Bureau revealed yesterday, but Washington ranks fourth among the cities of the Natfon on self-destruction statistics. ‘The rate per 100,000 here in 1933 was 341, Nevada was the ranking State with 33,3, while San Francisco heads the list of cities with 39. ‘The rate in the Far West is ahead of all other sections of the country. Excluding Nevada, high suicide States are California, Colorado, Wyoming and Oregon. % Ranking ahead of Washington and below San Francisco on the city list are Denver, 37.9, and San Diego, Calif., 36.9. The fifth city is Portland, Oreg., 324. Southern States, mainly because of large colored population, rank lowest. Mississippi in 1933 had only 5.5 sui- cides per 100,000; Arkansas, §4, and South Carolina, 6.7. ‘The District’s rate was more than twice the general average for the coun- try, 15.9 per 100,000, a downward step from the previous year for the first time since the depression began, ‘The urban rate was 2 per cent higher than that of the country as a whole, with New York City far in the lead numerically with 1356. How- ever, the ratio in the Nation's metropo- lis was only 19 per 100,000. The three cities with the lowest rates are Somerville, N. J, 85; Fall River, Mass., 8.7, and Jersey City, 8.8. Burglars Leave Dirty Dishes. PHILADELPHIA (#)—The bur- glars who robbed his home were not gentlemen, Druggist Meyer Tepper told detectives. ‘They tried unsuccessfully to enter his pharmacy in the front part of | the building, then ransacked the | rooms in the rear, cooked themselves a nice meal and left all the dirty dishes in the sink. pany, but Edward Peter, counsel to the board, said that she signed the dispensary bond as an individual and | not as e representative of the Balti- more firm. Mrs. Lyddane, in issuing bonds, has acted as the agent for Robert G. Hilton, former president of the EFarmers‘ Banking & Trust Co, and | her former employer. Hilton, rep- resentative of the Baltimore bonding | company, has been confined by ill- ness for some time in a sanitarium. G- FRIDAY; -APRIL §; 1935. LDWIN J. DAVIS, 31-year-old Washingtonian, held as & witness in the case in which Mrs. Anne Lyddane of Rockville is accused of & conspiracy to murder her husband, Francis 8. Lyddane, bookkeeper at the Siiver Spring dispensary. PETTY ANNOUNCES INDEPENDENT RACE ‘Arlington County Clerk Elim- inates Himself From Demo- cratic Primary. By a Staff Correspondent of The Stdr. ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Vi April 5—County Clerk John A. Petty announced today he would be a can- | didate to succeed himself at the gen- | eral election November 5. By this de- | cision Mr. Petty has eliminated him- self from the Democratic primary Au- gust 6, although he is a Democrat. | In making his announcement, Mr. Petty declared: “Since April, 1932, I have adminis- | tered the office of county clerk strictly as a business executive without regard to politics or political considerations. It is on this basis solely that I sub- mit my independent candidacy to the people of Arlington County.” Mr. Petty was appointed clerk by Circuit Court Judge Walter T. Mc- Carthy April 22, 1932, to fill the un- expired term of William H. Duncan, | who was removed from office. 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