THE EVENING STAR A-3 ' Washington, D. C., Monday, August 14, 1967 ** Jury Convicts Andrews In Kennedy Plot Story (AP)—A jury convicted Dean Andrews today of lying to a grand jury about a mysterious figure in the alleged New Orleans plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Guilty on three of five perjury counts, the Criminal District Court jury decided at 1:39 a.m., after deliberating 2 hours and 90 minutes. "I really shouldn't complain," said Andrews with a heavy sigh moments before he was hustled off to jail. "If I didn't have bad could not identify Clay L. Shaw luck, I wouldn't have any at as the mysterious Clay Ber_ trand. Defense attorney Harry Bur- Dist. Atty. con- glass immediately announced tends that Shaw, 54, a wealthy an appeal will be filed on many New Orleans businessman, used points of law. "Bertrand" as an alias to plot the of Kennedy. Sentencing Waits The said Judge Frank J. Shea did not Oswald acted alone in the 1963 set a date for sentencing. at , Tex. The defense rested its case willBurglass not be eligiblesaid Andrews, for bond 44, until after drews' playing replies a voice to state tape interro- of An- he has been sentenced. Maxi- mum sentence would be five gation before the grand jury years. March 16. The case went to the jury be- fore midnight after marathon Attention Desire Blamed debate for five days and includ- "He told them the truth," said ed a Sunday session-90 unusual Burglass. "But he's got a jivey the judge had to check the law- way of doing it. He told them books to see if it was legal. was not Clay Ber- The trial was before a five- trand, but they say he lied. man jury because the charge of "Most of us live humdrum perjury is a misdemeanor under lives. But something exciting law. Twelve-member happened to Dean—Bertrand. juries are reserved for felony Up until that time, he didn't cases. have an enemy in the world. He In final arguments, the state was on TV, he was here, he was accused Andrews of trying "to there. He got swirled up into play games" with the Orleans something a lot bigger than any- Parish grand jury which is thing be had ever dreamed." probing an alleged assassination A desire for attention, said plot. Asst. Dist. Atty. James Alcock, Trapped in Gun Stories is not an excuse for lying to the grand jury trying to determine The prosecution said Andrews whether there was a wound up trapped in lies. to kill a president. On the contrary, said Bur. Alcock stressed that Andrews, glass, what the state truly indi- at his second grand jury am cated to Andrews was: "Tell us pearance, identified Bertrand as what we want to hear, Dean, Eugene Davis, a French Quar- and then it's all right." ter bar owner—and when asked Five counts of perjury against why, he hadn't said so before, Andrews, a lawyer who once ad- rePlied: vised. Lee Harvey Oswald an mi- "So I lied. So I committed nor legal matters, were filed perjury. I don't know what I primarily because he said he said." —A/Nock:lei Press Dean Andrews Jr. is hustled off to jail after being found guilty of per- jury before a New Orleans grand jury probing an alleged conspiracy in the John F. Kennedy assassination.