Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-02
CLAIM ATTORNEY
ORDERED PERJURY
WITNESSES, ARRESTED, MAKE
ACCUSATIONS
]. D. Reymert Accused-Asslstant Dis
trict Attorney to Bring Charge of
Contempt of Court or More
Serious Offense

Following the trial Of S. Garcia, who
was acquitted yesterday of the charge of
grand larceny, two of the witnesses, Oc-
taviano Afmente and Enemesio Cervan-
tes, were arrested, charged with perjury.
In default of $500 bail both were commit
ted to the county Jail. pending prelimin-
ary hearing.
Deputy District Attorney John North,
who Lad charge of the prosecution of Gar
cia, asked for the arrest of Armente when
the latter had finished his testimony, but
the matter was postponed to the close of
the trial. North has aff1davits from both
men in which they state that Attorney j.
D. Reymert insisted on their giving the
false testimony. which consisted of iden-
tifying exhibits in the case.
This morninug North will draw up an
information against Reymert, charging
him with either contempt Of court or sub
ornation of perjury
Garcia was accused of stealing a pock-
etbook from A, Martini on August 10. The
pocketbook was said to contain more than
$25, but that amount was in $5 gold pieces.
Garcia .and Martini had worked together
for the Los, Angeles-P Pacific Railway COM
pany in a construction gang at Sher-
man.
The defendant claimed the poclSetbook
found on him was his property.
To further strengthen this claim the two
Witnesses were introduced by the defense,
and identified the purse and rubber band
as being the property of the defendant.
After being arrested for perjury both
claim they had previously told Attorney
Reymert that they could not swear to
the identity of the pocketbook, but he
told them they must, and they did so.
Armente in his affidavit says that after
Garcia had been arrested Reymert came
to Sherman and asked him If he could
identify the purse. and he replied he could
not for most of the men on the work had
similar ones, and the resemblance was
so strong he could not tell them apart
He afterwards left the job and was pre-
pairing to go to Yuma, when he met Rey-
inert near the Plaza and the latter told
him he would have to come to court. He
returned to Sherman and went to work,
where he was served with a subpoena
few days before the trial.
He swears he had never seen the pock-
etbook before 1t was shown to him by
Revmert at the time of the trial, but he
was afraid to say so, and gave the testi-
mony which he now admits to be false.
Cervantes was not asked to identity the
purseA only the rubber band which was
around ii. When approached by Reymert
shortly after Garcia had been arrested he
told the attorney he had found rubber
hand on Sixth street, and had given 1t to
Martini, but all he knew of it was that
it was black.
He too was intimidated When on the
stand, and swore he could tell the band
was the same although he knew when he
did so that there was no difference be-
tween it and any other rubber band that
he had ever seen.
Reymert told him. he swears in his afh-
davit, that he must say 1t was the same
one which he had found, and he did so.
Now that the testimony is admitted to
be false the defendant cannot be again
brought to trial.
Attorney Reymert was convicted of a
similar offense after the Chacon trial sew
eral years ago, and fined $500 by Judge
Smith. He could not pay the fine and
was sent to Jail for 100 days. After serv-
ing twenty-eight days he was released on
q technicality.