Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-08
ARRESTS MAN ON
PERJURY CHARGE
BELIEVE HIGH KICKING STORY
A FABRICATION
Leo Monreal Taken Into Custody on a
Felony Warrant-Told Weird
Tale About Alleged Mid
night Orgy

On a charge of having given per-
jured testimony during the Arnez di-
vorce trial several weeks ago in the
superior court in which he appeared
prominently. Leo Monreal, young
Mexican was yesterday arrested by an
officer of Constable Cleveland's staff
and lodged in the county Jail pending
his examination before Justice Pierce.
Although the Arnez case has been a
matter of court history for more than
two months the district attorneys Of
fee, through Deputy Paul Mccormick
has been proceeding with the investi-
cation, aided by Attorney Appel who
represented Mrs. Arnez at the divorce
trial, and yesterday the warrant was
Issued and served. A second warrant
was also issued in the case, but the
witness for whom II was intended had
skipped the country, having gotten
wind Of the proceeding.
The Arnez case, a fight for the pos
session of bright-eyed little girl, fair
ly divided the Spanish settlement as
far as sentiment was concerned.
Tells circumstantlsl Story
Mrs. Arnez, scarcely over 20 years Of
age. charged her husband with cruelty
and desertion. He charged her with
all manner of offenses and the court
finally decided to grant divorce to
the woman and arrange the custody
of the child so that the fathers parents
would have the little one for certain
time and the mother would then have
charge.
During the trial one of the chief wit
nesses to be produced in behalf of the
husband was Leo Monreal. He was
brought in order to prove that Mrs.
Arnez, by her actions, was an unfit
person to care for the little girl.
He testified that on certain night in
August he went with a friend to a
rooming house on Temple street and
that there he met Mrs. Arnez He tes-
titled that she helped him and his
friend drink several bottles of beer and
that they used a corkscrew to open the
bottles All local beer bottles have tin
tops and cannot be opened with a
corkscrew. lie testified that Mrs.
Arnez then asked for more beer and
that he went out and bought dozen.
Charged with Perjury
His further testimony was to the eff
feet that Mrs. Arnez danced before
him, kicking UP her skirts until her
hosiery was displayed as high as the
knee and that she wound up the orgy
by going into an adjoining room and
throwing her arms about the neck of
u IucH WuO WdS SllllIlS Oil Ile 6uBS VI
the bed in that apartment.
When the rebuttal came witness
was brought by the attorney for Mrs.
Arnez to refute the statements. On
the night of the alleged orgy, accord
ing to the statements of the landlady
of the house where Mrs. Arnez was
rooming and according to the testi-
mony of we'll known physicians, Mrs.
Arnez was sick in bed, suffering from
a severe muscular cold that threatened
pneumonia The landlady further testi-
fed that there never had been any dis
turbance in Mrs. Arnez's room, that
the room occupied by the woman ad-
Joined hers and that in the room adj
joining in which Monreal alleged he
saw the man sitting on the edge of
the. bed. cigar manufacturing estab-
lishment occupied the space.
1t was further proven that between
the two apartments the door had been
nailed up for more than a year and
that shelves holding cigar boxes had
been built against it.
Following the trial rumors to the ef-
feet that perjury warrants would be is
sued were in circulation, but yester-
day came the first intimation when an
officer took Monreal in charge on the
felony warrant and hailed him before
Justice Pierce.
Other arrests in the case may fol-
low.