Man to Stand Trial in Wayne Case : Hintergardt, an Assault Suspect, Is 2nd to Be Bound Over

A second defendant was ordered Friday to stand trial for an assault last year on John Wayne’s daughter, Aissa, and financier Roger W. Luby.

Municipal Judge Russell A. Bostrom ordered a trial for Jerrel L. Hintergardt, 37, of Burbank, who is accused of participating in the Oct. 3, 1988, attack in which Wayne was beaten and Luby suffered a severed Achilles’ tendon. If convicted, Hintergardt could be sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Hintergardt joins Pomona orthopedic surgeon Thomas A. Gionis, 35, Wayne’s former husband, who was ordered last month to stand trial in the attack. Gionis, allegedly motivated by a bitter divorce and custody battle over the couple’s daughter, Anastasia, is accused of ordering the attack through a private investigator who hired Hintergardt.

That man, O. Daniel Gal, 32, of Beverly Hills, was arrested in Switzerland last month. Authorities are seeking his extradition.

Bostrom heard several hours of testimony Friday from Wayne, Luby and a man accused of assisting Hintergardt in the attack, Jeffrey K. Bouey, 35, of Simi Valley. In a replay of the Gionis hearing last month, Bouey testified about how he and Hintergardt received orders from Gal to intimidate Wayne.

Bouey’s attorney, Bruce C. Hill, said that his client and Hintergardt were good friends and that Hintergardt had been Bouey’s best man at a wedding several years earlier. Bouey, he said, has “always been rather remorseful” about the attack.

“I think (Bouey) really had no knowledge of the scope of what was going to happen,” Hill said.

Hintergardt’s attorney, Todd A. Landgren, denied that his client was involved in the attack. Landgren said he believes that the target of the attack was Luby, not Wayne. Landgren also claimed that testimony given earlier by Bouey, describing how Hintergardt and he carried out the attack, was false. “I think we will be able to show that Mr. Bouey fabricated his testimony,” Landgren said.

Landgren and Deputy Dist. Atty. Christopher J. Evans said they expected Hintergardt’s trial to be held jointly with the trials of the other defendants in the case.